If This Is True . . .

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Tim Starks of Congressional Quarterly reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) plans to bring the Senate’s surveillance bill up for floor debate in mid-November. That’s despite the hold that Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) plans to place on the measure . . .

then Harry Reid can go fuck himself. I will never want to hear another fucking word about how hard Harry Reid is trying. This is unprecedented.

Say it ain’t so Harry, cuz if it is . . .

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    • TexDem on October 19, 2007 at 05:12
    • KrisC on October 19, 2007 at 05:28

    They switched the chip in his head
    from blue to red…
    I think they’re still threatening Congress
    with anthrax letters…
    Fuckin’ Harry…

  1. Greg Sargent on Dodd’s hold:

    Dodd, who has aggressively courted the liberal blogosphere as part of his Presidential run, was being loudly appealed to by top liberal bloggers today to put a hold on the bill. Dodd has for some time now spoken out against the immunity provision but had stopped short of saying that he would exert his power as a Senator to hold up the legislation.

  2. Arlen Specter. Specter, of course, always claims that he will fight the Republican drivel corruption position, but always falls back into line when it comes time to vote. It appears that he is constantly playing us. Or the media.

    Perhaps Reid is playing the other side. He’ll make it appear like he doesn’t support Dodd, but in secret does. And he’ll find some way to pull it off.

    < /dream>

  3. What? What will you do? What will we do?

    Dodd has taken the kind of stand that the whole of the Democratic Congress should have been taking ever since they got a majority. Now he needs to get others to stand with him to resist whatever bullshit that Reid seems prepared to throw at him.

  4. after learning of Dodd’s intentions, then I would agree with you. It will be a cumbersome task to bring the bill to the floor and it will  expose Reid’s leadership for what it is.

  5. The “leadership” just can’t lay down fast enough. I’m not sure this is still analyzable in rational terms. But to the extent it is, the idea is probably to avoid throwing anything at Bush and the Pubs that they could throw back at Hillary once she’s clinched the nomination. With a background assumption that most people don’t follow Congress closely enough to understand what a vile bunch of spineless wonders the Congressional Dems really are, lest that reflect negatively upon Hillary.

  6. It used to be that the mere threat of not honoring a hold would shut the Senate down.

  7. Just when you think the caucus can’t get any more flaccid, it somehow manages to eke just a bit more limpness from its drooping, pathetic self.

    • jim p on October 19, 2007 at 08:12

    don’t you!?!! For the last time: we must keep our powder dry.

    Fuck the American people and the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Dry powder is everything.

  8. that Harry is doing anything different than he has done in the past 6 years?

    Why the sudden horror?

    Seriously, even when we were in the minority, it seems the pattern of selling out has been the dem M.O.  It’s like they conference behind closed doors to count up votes on measures to make sure they pass, but allowing certain politicos to stand up in outrage against said measure…. but always, the horrors and crimes get passes. 

    People seem to forget that the dems had a majority in the senate for Bush’s first two years. Those years were key for bushco to lay out the fascist blueprints. “Advice and consent of the Senate.”

    I don’t know. I lost a lot of sleep from 2001 through the beginning of this year. I sleep now and enjoy my life, but…..

    Let me know when it’s time to storm the bastille.  I will be rested.  Storming the bastille is the only option we have to stop the insanity.

  9. That’s the root of the problem.

    I don’t believe that there is no difference between the parties. There is a large difference. For one, I don’t believe for a second that President Al Gore would have started a War with Iraq.

    The real area there is only a sliver’s worth of difference between the parties is when Corporatism comes into play.

    This is another example, if true.

    We need new strategies to battle the corporatists in governement, on both sides of the aisle.

    Something new is required. Something new and bold.

    • OPOL on October 19, 2007 at 15:41

    Oh yeah…fuck Harry Reid!

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