HOLY SHIT WE GOT A REPRIEVE
Dec. 17th, 2007 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdSENATOR DODD TALKED SENATOR REID INTO KICKING THE NEXT FISA VOTE OFF TO JANUARY. He must have been getting some traction. Or maybe Reid just wants to go on vacation. Or maybe it got too embarrassing for the major candidates, or for the party - Senator Dodd and his supporters were getting very, very frank on the floor. Who knows?
This does not mean it's over. But it means the fight gets kicked off until later, in January 2008. The end of the Republic is... delayed. The intent may well be to wait until they think the heat is off, or until after the Iowa caucuses are over. But regardless, it's a lot less out of the question to get 19 votes changed than it was 20 minutes ago.
ETA: Senator Dodd just promised live on the Senate floor that he will filibuster again in January 2008 if another retroactive immunity bill gets moved forward.
ETA 2: This means that all that emailing and calling and faxing needs to continue. This ain't over. It's only kicked back for a few weeks, then we likely end up doing this again. Phone. Email. Fax. Whatever. Here's a petition to Senator Reid that you can sign.
This does not mean it's over. But it means the fight gets kicked off until later, in January 2008. The end of the Republic is... delayed. The intent may well be to wait until they think the heat is off, or until after the Iowa caucuses are over. But regardless, it's a lot less out of the question to get 19 votes changed than it was 20 minutes ago.
ETA: Senator Dodd just promised live on the Senate floor that he will filibuster again in January 2008 if another retroactive immunity bill gets moved forward.
ETA 2: This means that all that emailing and calling and faxing needs to continue. This ain't over. It's only kicked back for a few weeks, then we likely end up doing this again. Phone. Email. Fax. Whatever. Here's a petition to Senator Reid that you can sign.
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Date: 2007-12-18 12:41 am (UTC)Set yourself a timer; we'll have to do this all over again when it comes around on the guitar.... (Alice's Restaurant reference)
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Date: 2007-12-18 12:42 am (UTC)Senator Dodd is promising right now that he'll filibuster in January too if the same bill moves to the floor.