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Dodd: We Just Sanctioned the Single Largest Invasion of Privacy in the History of the Country
I was on a blogger and reporter conference call with Senator Chris Dodd this afternoon. David Isenberg, McJoan at Daily Kos and Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal have already posted on it. Dodd announced that because the will of the...
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Dodd on FISA, Glenn Greenwald
Senator Chris Dodd quotes Glenn Greenwald on the floor of the Senate, as part of a two and a half hour speech last night on FISA and retroactive immunity! *** Matt Browner Hamlin helped lead the fight against telecom...
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What Should We Think About the FISA Amendments Agreement?
I'm waiting for a response from Dodd's Senate office about whether or not he could or would filibuster final passage of the SSCI bill, if it were to contain retroactive immunity. Contrary to what has been reported, getting a vote...
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Barack Obama on FISA
A very strong statement from Senator Barack Obama: I strongly oppose retroactive immunity in the FISA bill. Ever since 9/11, this Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand. The FISA...
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Dodd on the Bush Presidency
This is from last Friday's speech and Senator Dodd is expected to speak shortly, but I still think this line is worth highlighting: The compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one. But dismissing this case at the outset...
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Chris Dodd Speaks Out Against Republican Obstructionism
This is from yesterday. Senator Chris Dodd lays into the Republican leadership for their obstructionist tactics and makes clear how unprecedented a situation the Republicans have brought us to in the Senate. Crooks & Liars has the full video...
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Dodd's Brief Explanation of Why We Oppose the Intel Committee Bill
Via Athenae at First Draft, here's an excerpt from Chris Dodd's floor speech today in opposition to the Intelligence Committee bill that explains clearly why he - and everyone who cares about the rule of law - should oppose the...
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Dodd Will Filibuster
Senator Chris Dodd just released this statement on the pending warrantless wiretapping and retroactive immunity fight, via Tim Tagaris at Daily Kos. "Few things are more detrimental to this country than the erosion of and attack on the civil liberties...
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Here Comes the FISA Debate
Well, it now the word out of Washington is that the FISA debate will begin in the Senate tonight, though currently it doesn't look like votes will take place until tomorrow. My former coworker from the Dodd campaign, Tim Tagaris,...
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Chris Dodd Will Keep Fighting FISA
We agree with Matt Stoller of Open Left - Chris Dodd deserves some serious thanks for continuing his pledge to filibuster the FISA bill, whether or not he's running for President....
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Dodd Takes a Moment
Open Left delivers us a video of Dodd's response to yesterday's activities: Give the guy a minute of your time. He talks of the "army" of supporters that had his back -- that's all of you. (He also mentions his...
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A Victory...For Now
We have tried to work through this process and it appears quite clear at this stage on this bill that we're not going to be able to do that...We are at the last few hours of the last few days...
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What The Heck Is Happening In The Senate?
Some of us may wonder -- hey, I wonder -- what is going on in the Senate? I don't mean this in some existential way. I'm not wondering by what mechanisms, progressive will is suppressed. I'm not asking whence has...
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Bitter Confrontation
Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times contrasts the Edwards and Obama approach to healthcare in particular and politics in general, and through this contrast, Krugman makes a broader argument about the power dynamics that will influence how progressive...
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Filibuster Monday
The blogosphere is buzzing this morning in anticipation of a rare act: a Senator taking a strong stand for a core American value. That's right, the Dodd filibuster -- taking a stand that CREDO members have been arguing: no amnesty...
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What Would YOU Do To Protect Our Constitution?
It seems like every candidate for President should be asked what he or she would do to protect the Constitution...and now one candidate is doing the asking. As techPresident reports, Chris Dodd became the first candidate to use the YouTube...
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Stepping Up on FISA
Chris Dodd is continuing to demonstrate what we talked about yesterday: that the demands of a political race could make people more courageous in governing, not more cautious. He's threatening to filibuster a bad FISA bill. Now, let's get other...
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Could Electoral Politics Lead to Better Governing
We generally assume that election season political maneuvering leads to bad policy in government. Let's remember, it was the fear-mongering of the '02 and '06 midterms that terrorized cowardly candidates into authorizing the use of force, and four years later...
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Leadership
As political figures respond to the outrageous Senate actions today, we see different models of leadership: From Chris Dodd: It is a sad day in the Senate when we spend hours debating an ad while our young people are dying...
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Two Battles
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing to be done about the mess our country is in. (Well, it never feels that way to Working Assets members who can always do more through our great Act For Change online activism.)...
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The Race Within The Race
Within the Presidential race, there's the time race...that is, who gets to talk most in the crowded, televised debates. The good folks of Chris Dodd's campaign have clocked each forum to show us just how tiered the conversations tend to...
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A Step in the Right Direction
We at Working Assets have been calling for the impeachment of both VP Cheney and AG Gonzales for their various crimes against the state. And while the impeachment proceedings seem a way's off in DC, at least some of our...
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Oh Really, O'Reilly
Despite O'Reilly's screaming and shouting and huffing and puffing, he could not blow the McCormick Conference Center down...and YearlyKos took place. Working Assets' Will Easton and I were both there, and you'll hear more about it soon. But for now,...
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Chris Dodd Makes Quick Work - VERY Quick Work - of O'Reilly
So it seems that Billo has spent much of his time as of late making slanderous statements about us participants at Yearly Kos - and Chris Dodd has had enough. Just listen and enjoy....
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The Debate Clock
Last night's debate offered a new format: questions submitted via YouTube from around the country -- from questioners as far-ranging, as The Huffington Post headline puts it, as "Lesbians, Military Parents and Snowmen." And people seemed to like the format,...
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A Difference on Constitutional Rights
For all the differences among the candidates in last night's Democratic Presidential Debate, the major result was their similiarities on a range of issues from ending the Occupation in Iraq, employing diplomacy with Iran and supporting out troops and their...
