JK voted for (failed) Dodd amendment

[MBS]

. . (Dodd amendment to FISA bill would have deleted civil-lawsuit immunity for telecommunications firms who assisted US government in warrantless wiretapping). Dodd gave blistering speech on CSPAN. Read these votes and weep for our country. And thank those who voted yes today, including JK. Dodd also gets special cred for continuing to push for the rule of law. I want to see this a bigger issue in this presidential campaign. It's CENTRAL to our democracy (or what's left of it).

YEA (good guys) 31

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Casey (D-PA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Tester (D-MT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAY (bad guys) 67
BOO to the following:
all the Repubs (except Graham, who didn't vote) plus
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Webb (D-VA)

NOT VOTING (sig =?)
Clinton (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)

[whometense]

1. Hooray for Obama

for getting his butt back to DC and voting.

[MBS]

2. here's a link to Dodd speech

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x92840

[whometense]

3. Thanks :-) n/t

[MBS]

5. There's also a bunch of stuff at Firedog Lake. As you know, Jane

Hamsher has been following this closely.

[whometense]

6. I just signed their petition,

which is being co-sponsored by Glenn Greenwald, who's also been all over this story.

Link, for those who want it: http://action.firedoglake.com/page/petition/RestoreFISA

[beachmom]

4. Currently, Webb is catching hell on a rec'd diary on Kos.

I wonder when netroots folks are going to realize Hillary didn't bother to vote. She knows they're not with her, and is focussing on OH and TX. Probably the correct calculation in her mind.

[whometense]

7. She's up to her eyeballs.

Shockingly, her Latino supporters are not too thrilled about Patti Solis-Doyle's "resignation."

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=554

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2008/02/12/doyle/

And Al Giordano notes that while Obama is spending a lot of time campaigning in Wisconsin, she's skipping the state to focus on Texas and Ohio.

[beachmom]

8. Yeah, I saw that. Still, I will never count her out. She may well

sweep TX and OH handily, and we'll be back to where we were Super Tuesday.

[MBS]

9. JK and Obama also voted for filibuster (against cloture)

Measure didn't pass, alas. .. pretty much the same cast of characters

JK, Dodd, Kennedy and Obama and 25 other Dems voted NAY (this is good)
Nay was only 29 this time.Yea (bad) was 69

pretty much the same cast of characters
added to good guys on cloture vote: Stabenow
defected to bad guys on cloture vote: Baucus, Casey, Whitehouse

Clinton and Graham didn't vote on this one, either.