Update on Greenwald's Dodd post

[Canuckistanian]

I thought there was a particularly good message in there:

UPDATE VII: It can't be overstated how starved people are for real leadership on these issues. From Time's Karen Tumulty:

Senator Dodd's campaign communications director Hari Sevugan tells me that $150,000 in small contributions have poured into Dodd's campaign in the past 24 hours . . . . Dodd has raised more small-dollar contributions in the last 24 hours than he did in the previous month. Sevugan also says the number of visits to his website is up tenfold, as is the number of people registering their e-mail addresses there.

All that, from a single announcement to place a "hold" on this bill. Consider the passion that could be generated, the energy that could be harnessed, from sustained and principled leadership.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/19/reid/index.html

[high density]

1. Why is Harry Reid so clueless?

It makes me angry that he's just as detached from reality as the Republics.

[Canuckistanian]

2. That was a real shock yesteday

Remember how he shut down the Senate a few years ago about Phase II of the prewar intelligence report?

He used a little-known rule to do so and got EVERYONE'S attention.

Now that he's a majority leader, he's just about shriveled up to nothing. Waxman, Conyers, Feingold and Kucinich are pulling the heavy loads now.

And now, he pulls an almost unheard-of ruling to shut down a hold on his own party's bill.

Shameful.

[mmonk]

3. Good news and well deserved for Dodd.

I've done what I could to send people there (his website) for this. Others have to. He really is doing the work needed and exercising the leadership necessary.