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Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill

Posted by kdawson on from the talk-until-blue-in-the-face dept.

otakuj462 sends in an important followup to this morning's story on telecom immunity legislation. "Senator Chris Dodd won a temporary victory today after his threats of a filibuster forced Democratic leadership to push back consideration of a measure that would grant immunity to telecom companies that were complicit in warrantless surveillance... [T]he threat of Dodd's filibuster... persuaded Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, to table the act until January. A compromise on the immunity will ostensibly be worked out in the interim period."

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  1. DoS against Democracy by Blancmange · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Despite the favourable outcome in this case, isn't a filibuster a kind of Denial Of Service attack on democracy?

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    Blancmange
  2. nice Youtube clip by Scudsucker · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Of Sennator Kennedy protesting immunity. Money quote:

    The President has said that American lives will be sacrificed if Congress does not change FISA. But he has also said that he will veto any FISA bill that does not grant retro-active immunity. No immunity, no FISA bill. So if we take the President at his word, he's willing to let Americans die to protect the phone companies.
  3. Re:Ron Paul won't allow warentless wiretapping by TheSkyIsPurple · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >wants to pull out of the UN,
    Something many Americans actually want as well, and many more couldn't be bothered with one way or the other.

    >remove the constitutionally protected women's right to choose,
    Wow, inflammatory much?

    He wants to remove the Federal influence on this because the constitutionality is highly debated.
    The tricker the question, the more local it should be.
    That's part of the founding principles

    >remove public education

    No, he doesn't mind public education, in fact I suspect he supports it.
    He just sees no place for the Fed in it under our constitution.
    It's a State deal, and there is should lie.

    >but there more important issues out there which Paul loses most voters including this one on.
    Just make sure you're arguing the same thing.

  4. Re:Ron Paul won't allow warentless wiretapping by SonicSpike · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ron Paul does not want to "prevent women from having an abortion" as you have said.

    He wants Roe v Wade overturned so that individual states can make their own decisions.

    Have you ever even read any of his papers on abortion (by the way, he was an OB/GYN for years delivering over 4000 babies)

    Either you are misinformed or intellectually dishonest. In case it is the later,

    See this:
    http://ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=21

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