Urgent - Tell your U.S. Senators to Filibuster S. 2248

Please call your U.S. senators this morning and tell them to vote NO on the cloture motion on S. 2248. Your senators' contact information is available here.

I misjudged Harry Reid. After Congress voted "temporarily" to gut FISA back in August, I merely thought he was weak and useless. But, no. The "Democratic" leader isn't just failing to stand up to the traitors in the Bush administration. He's actively helping them. Glenn Greenwald summarizes:

...there were two competing bills which Reid could have brought to the floor -- the Senate Intelligence Committee version engineered by Jay Rockefeller and Dick Cheney which gives the administration most of what it wants, and the Senate Judiciary Committee, which does not contain telecom amnesty and contains far more extensive oversight protections. Reid could have brought the bill to the floor using whatever process he wanted, and he has decided -- contrary to weeks of assurances -- that the SIC bill will serve as the "base" bill, meaning that improving it (by removing amnesty and increasing oversight) will require 60 votes, rendering such efforts virtually impossible. In doing so, Reid is brazenly ignoring the demands of 14 Senators -- including all of the Democratic presidential candidates -- to have the Judiciary Committee bill be the base bill.

Worse still, Reid is completely disregarding the "hold" placed by Chris Dodd on any amnesty bill -- simply refusing to honor it, even as he respectfully honors literally scores of "holds" from GOP Senators such as Tom Coburn.

Mr. Greenwald further states:

The criticism isn't that Harry Reid is being insufficiently aggressive in opposing the White House. It's that he's doing what he can to support the White House, serving as their key ally. I suppose one option is to cheer on Democrats anyway, no matter what they do. But I can't understand how anyone who actually believes in anything other than partisan power for its own sake would consider that option to be an attractive one.

(entire post here, link via Unqualified Offerings)

Please call your U.S. senators this morning and tell them to vote NO on the cloture motion on S. 2248. Your senators' contact information is available here.