Candidatecalls for support of Senator Dodd's fillibuster against retroactive immunity for telecoms.

[patrice]

http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/23/john-edwards-on-fisa/

Please call your Senators AND all three of our candidates.

[rateyes]

1. Reid and Leahy have become absolutely useless....

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.

[librechik]

2. worse, they're working like crazy for the Dark Side

[rateyes]

5. No doubt. nt

[patrice]

3. Okay so . . . sometimes it's better for it to be a "real" fillibuster and sometimes it's better for

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?

[rateyes]

4. When the Majority leader favors the legislation being filibustered...

is when it becomes real.

[L. Coyote]

6. go to opensecrets.org/ to find out.

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=2008

JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV)
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