patrice
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Thu Jan-24-08 09:25 AM
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Candidatecalls for support of Senator Dodd's fillibuster against retroactive immunity for telecoms. |
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http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/john-edwards-on-fisa/Please call your Senators AND all three of our candidates.
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rateyes
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Thu Jan-24-08 09:30 AM
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1. Reid and Leahy have become absolutely useless.... |
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Reid is going to make this a real filibuster, instead of the silent kind that he affords to the Repukes all the time. Leahy is standing as tall as he did with the Mukasey nomination. :sarcasm:
I wonder how much money has been contributed to the campaigns from the telecoms, and how much more has been promised. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Thu Jan-24-08 09:32 AM
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2. worse, they're working like crazy for the Dark Side |
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Thu Jan-24-08 10:36 AM
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patrice
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Thu Jan-24-08 09:36 AM
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3. Okay so . . . sometimes it's better for it to be a "real" fillibuster and sometimes it's better for |
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it to be silent?
I know it's an academic quesiton since we haven't had a really real fillibuster in a very long time, but how do they make that call?
When should it be which?
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Thu Jan-24-08 10:36 AM
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4. When the Majority leader favors the legislation being filibustered... |
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Thu Jan-24-08 10:43 AM
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6. go to opensecrets.org/ to find out. |
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http://opensecrets.org/Reid isn't one of the telecom targets. Rockefeller got the big infusion of telecom money this year. http://opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00001685&cycle=2008JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV) Top Contributors #1 = AT&T Inc $37,600 2 K&L Gates $34,100 3 Peabody Energy $32,200 4 Verizon Communications $30,500 6 Comcast Corp $28,000
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