As you know, a few Senators were determined to filibuster the FISA bill to death. The Senate voted to cut off debate on the bill
Fifteen Senators voted against cutting off debate:
| Biden (D-DE) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Dodd (D-CT) | Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Harkin (D-IA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) | Leahy (D-VT) Menendez (D-NJ) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Wyden (D-OR) |
Only the Vermonters and New Jerseyites had both of their senators vote to kill FISA. These Senators are Heros of the Constitution.
As Firedoglake noted, this was the real vote. Various pissant Senators will vote, unsuccessfully, against one provision or another, but that will be just a fucking sham, little more then theater.
If your Senator is not on the list above, your Senator, either actively or tacitly (five did not show up, two are ill [Kennedy and Byrd] and the other three are too busy campaigning [Clinton, Obama, McCain]) is in favor of a system of electing a tyrant. Those eighty-five (OK, 83, Kennedy & Byrd get a pass on this) senators have endorsed the Nixonian principle that "the
If your Senator is not one of the fifteen (plus two), then I strongly urge that you vote for whoever runs against them in the next election, irrespective of party.
For they have trashed the principle of "a government of laws, not men" and they all deserve to lose their phony-baloney jobs.
I will have to see why Patty Murray didn't show up on that list. I am amazed Can't well voted correctly though.
ReplyDeleteOf course mine did not but that's to be expected and his little brother in the House is no better.They be the Salazar boys.
ReplyDeleteschumer voted
ReplyDeletebut the other NY senator didnt bother to vote.......
Yes, where WAS Patty? I will have to call and ask...
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