Holy crap, we just won this round?!?!

Dodd was just on C-SPAN saying that the Senate is moving on to other issues beyond the FISA bill. He just yielded the floor. He said he was prepared to spend his full 30 hours speaking on the bill but "that will no longer be necessary." I think Reid just pulled the bill.

This is incredible. Obviously we're not done, but we appear to have won a significant battle.

Great work by Senator Dodd showing he means business.

UPDATE: Per mcjoan:

Harry Reid just announced on the floor that he intends to table debate on the FISA overhaul legislation until January.

Reid was taking a lot of heat for this, and in the end perhaps felt that he couldn't hold out any longer. I'm guessing that he'll push for allowing the full Senate to view those legal opinions on warrantless wiretapping as a condition for moving forward on the bill.

This is one of the first good days in a long time, but keep in mind that Reid may have simply reasoned that he wouldn't have had time to finish all the other crap legislation he has coming down the pike, including giving a no-strings $70 billion in war funding to Bush. Keep in mind that there are some good shifting of budget priorities in that omnibus bill, including slashing abstinence-only education funding, raising the Consumer Product Safety Commission budget by 28%, and saving a host of social services from the chopping block. But I guess Reid made the determination that funding Bush's war was more important than giving telecoms a free pass.

UPDATE II: If you haven't read Chris Dodd's first speech on FISA today, you should. It's long but well worth it. Dodd definitely makes me proud to be an American today.

What this process showed is that minority rights can still be upheld in the Senate. Unfortunately, we now know that the minority is the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.