FISA: Delayed to tomorrow so Senators could spooge themselves

The FISA kabuki has been delayed until tomorrow, primarily so Senators could go to the funeral of and honour the late Senator Jesse Helms, the racist queer-loathing dicktard SOB from North Carolina who spent his whole political career doing his best to make the lives of people unlike him as much worse as possible. Seems fitting, somehow. Sadly, none of them will be there to spit on his putrid, desiccating corpse.

Meanwhile, the New York Times, far too late, has been waking up to the disaster of this bill. And, of course, Glenn Greenwald has much more here, including a dissection of the Bush Administration's pledge to veto any bill that even delays immunity long enough for Congress to examine it. A new Strange Bedfellows ad targeting the political elite is out. And a huge Money Bomb is being set up for August 8^th, the anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation in the face of impeachment. Pledge to support here:


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FISA debate this afternoon

There were a couple of hours of debate on FISA this afternoon. The vote is, reportedly, going to happen around 8am Pacitic time tomorrow. You can see some liveblogging of today's debates at Emptywheel. It was mostly Dodd, with also Arlen Specter talking a good game again, just as with the military tribunals law, before he votes for the evil he's condemning anyway.