This Is A Great Speech

Feingold.

Go read it.

UPDATE: Leahy gives a great soundbite to go along with that great speech of his from yesterday:

"In my own caucus, people say, 'We can't oppose this, look what happened to Max Cleland.'" (A Vietnam veteran confined to a wheelchair because of war wounds, Cleland, a Georgia senator, was defeated by GOP attacks ads in 2002 because he had supported a Democratic filibuster delaying the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security). Leahy recounted that his weak-kneed Democratic colleagues also argue, "'We have to go along with it because we'll never be able to explain it back home.'" That prompted the Vermont senator to add, "Maybe one way to explain it is to say, 'I stood up for you and your rights.'"

Leahy, Feingold, Levin, Dodd and Kerry, actually, have been the lions on this one. I'm with mcjoan: they ought to filibuster. Whether it works or not. The rights of all Americans are at stake here. Yes, all Americans. Because once you suspend the writ of habeas corpus, once you centralize the ability to name enemy combatants in the hands of one branch of government, once you claim the right to indefinitely detain and hide and torture and remove all accountability for any violations to international law, then we're ALL at risk.