You know what? Harry Reid is a massive douche
Harry Reid: He looks like he wants to give me a Werther’s Original.
(As is George W. Bush, but most of us already knew that.)
This is just a quick heads up. The Bush Administration and his buddies in the Senate (e.g. Harry Reid) have been trying to aggressively push through the new FISA legislation. This bill would not only allow for the continuation of Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping, but would also give companies like AT&T immunity from the laws that the President and the NSA asked them to–and most likely did–break.
Lucky for us, Chris Dodd, Russ Feingold, and other senators have been fighting this off.
However, Harry Reid, the pleasant looking, grandfatherly figure and majority leader of the Senate, will be trying to force an end to the debate on Monday (1/28/08). Yes, the very same Harry Reid who–after already letting many of his Republican cohorts block legislation with silent filibusters–told Chris Dodd and others that they would have to perform a true filibuster when attempting to block this bill.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a letter that you can email to your respective members of the Senate in less than a minute. They also have phone numbers if you’d like to have a little more impact.
“Now is the time to urge your Senators to vote no on ‘cloture’ to keep the debate going!
Every time you’ve taken action to fight against immunity, it’s made a huge difference. In November, your calls and emails helped to ensure that the Senate Judiciary Committee did not include telecom amnesty in its surveillance bill, and in December your calls and emails helped convince Harry Reid to delay the vote until January. Both times, the pundits assumed we didn’t stand a chance, and both times we proved them wrong.” — EFF
On a personal note, I would rather that my senator was campaigning other senators on this issue, not campaigning for other state’s “right to vote.”
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