{"id":568,"date":"2007-12-17T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T00:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2007-12-17T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T02:48:17","slug":"chris-dodd-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Chris Dodd-patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"

This being a Connecticut blog, and Chris Dodd being the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, it is mandatory that I salute him for his attempt to stop the FISA bill that Harry Reid brought to the floor of the Senate. The Senate invoked cloture, and the filibuster is over<\/a>. What a leader Harry is. He has been unable to stop a single Republican filibuster, but he had no problem breaking a Democratic filibuster. Maybe that’s because the Republican filibusters were about such trivial things as stopping the war, which hardly matters, while Dodd’s filibuster threatened the interests of important Congressional constituents: large corporations. Needless to say, the interests of the American people, and the mouldy piece of paper known as the Constitution are beside the point.<\/p>\n

Here’s the roll of honor of those that voted with Chris:<\/p>\n

Russ Feingold
\nBarbara Boxer
\nSherrod Brown
\nMaria Cantwell
\nBenjamin L. Cardin
\nTom Harkin
\nJohn Kerry
\nRobert Menendez
\nRon Wyden of Oregon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All Democrats of course. It’s interesting that there are so many freshmen among the group. Profiles in Courage Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama couldn’t be bothered to lift a finger to try to move either Reid or their fellow Senators to reject this bill, though they all claimed they were against it. Leaders all.<\/p>\n

Dodd has done much to redeem Connecticut’s honor, though Lieberman does his best to besmirch it at every turn.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Seems like the New York Times overstated the case. Harry Reid has pulled the bill off the legislative calendar. DODD WINS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Watch Dodd’s closing remarks here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This being a Connecticut blog, and Chris Dodd being the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, it is mandatory that I salute him for his attempt to stop the FISA bill that Harry Reid brought to the floor of the Senate. The Senate invoked cloture, and the filibuster is over. What a leader Harry is. He has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-presidential-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}