Disrespecting The Dodd

Harry Reid is guessing that getting the FISA debate outside of primary season will lower the progressive volume against telecom amnesty. He's wrong.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the early presidential primary season.

Reid said Senate Democrats might have a better chance of resolving internal disputes and moving a rewrite of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) once the early primaries have concluded [...]

“By sometime early in February, the presidential nomination will likely be pretty well determined on the Democratic side, at least,” Reid said. “So I think, for all those reasons, it would be a good idea to extend it.”

This is a slap in the face to Chris Dodd, with the implication that he's only whipping up support against amnesty to further his Presidential aspirations. Look, Dodd's not going to be President and I think he knows that; unfortunately, this country doesn't appear to base its Presidential vote on leadership. If he doesn't have to ping-pong back and forth from Iowa he could focus MORE on the amnesty issue. And he'll be joined with other allies who were on the campaign trail this time.

We're not going to shut up about this. What's really going on is an attempt to give the White House 30 more days to intimidate Congress into giving in. But they can't intimidate 300 million people. And those paying attention to this debate don't believe that allowing phone companies to break the law protects our security. And anyone who heard this statement should be shocked:

“The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.”

Sen. Sessions apparently doesn't know that he made an oath to defend the Constitution. It's practically his only job. And no matter what the Washington elites say, we're going to hold him to it.