It's A Good Day To Contact Your Senators
Sep. 7th, 2006 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomI already have, because Arlen Specter is trying to enable BushCo some more with a FISA Amendment that would basically let the Chimp decide whether or not he wants to conform to the law. Two guesses which way he'll swing. Fortunately, some senators are trying to hold it in committee with additional hearings, and they're apparently making noise like they're willing to make a big stink about it on the Senate floor. But they need support, on both sides of the aisle. This isn't partisan; this is obeying the law. This is not violating the Constitution. This is the right to privacy.
Give your senators a jingle.
Update: Russ Feingold won the day. It sounds as if Specter will try this again next week, but we're holding 'em off for now. As some commenters as dKos noted, the really interesting quote was this:
Give your senators a jingle.
Update: Russ Feingold won the day. It sounds as if Specter will try this again next week, but we're holding 'em off for now. As some commenters as dKos noted, the really interesting quote was this:
Forced to delay his committee's vote, Specter grumbled that without his legislation the White House would continue its domestic wiretapping program virtually unchecked by the courts.So, without this legislation, the White House will continue to wiretap Americans illegally? Heckuva job, there, Arlen.
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Date: 2006-09-07 06:59 pm (UTC)But since, apparently, you CAN "just do that," maybe it's my high school government teacher I should be yelling at.
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