Senate Delays Telecom Immunity Vote Until After July Recess

ivantheshifty writes with news of a delayed vote (failed filibuster attempt aside) on the updated FISA bill which has been discussed here recently, in particular because it would grant telecom companies immunity (under certain conditions) from suits for wiretapping conducted at government request. According to the Associated Press story carried by the Washington Post, "Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and more than a dozen other senators who oppose telecom immunity threw up procedural delays that threatened to force the Senate into a midnight or weekend session. The prospect of further delays was enough to cause Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to postpone the vote until after the weeklong July 4 vacation."

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Re:Not really opposing? He supports it.

[ScentCone]

Sadly, people on here seem to be ignoring that fact.

Yup, just like they're ignoring is somber promise not to use private campaign funds if McCain did the same, because the public campaign finance system was so important to support. And of course, he's completely lied about that, and is opting for big bucks from private bundlers, and has the gall to say it's really his way of supporting change ("Change We Can Believe In!" - [tm]) in the public financing system. Puh-lease. It's right up there with his often repeated assurances that he'd sit down with hostile dicatators for photo ops without any preconditions... um, not counting all of the preconditions that he's now saying would, of course, be necessary for such a thing.

It isn't just that he's a typical politician... he's far worse, because the ONLY thing he has (had) going for him, since he utterly lacks executive experience and studiously avoids exposure to the foreign policy players and issues that are so important, was his supposed pristine post-partisan ethics. He's been saying, essentially, the despite his lack of any experience, the ONE thing you should keep in mind as a reason to vote for him are his pure, unflappable convictions and character. And he's very handily been demonstrating for months that those are simply not present, or at the very least no more so than in many other politicians... and since the others DO have some experience and a more rational take on the issues about which Obama is thrashing around, you've gotta wonder what people actually think they're voting for with this guy. Other than some vague and pointless racial guilt soothing (another topic on which he's trying very hard to have it both ways).