Gotta love this flip-flop:
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold will not filibuster a compromise version of an electronic surveillance program although he thinks it will infringe on U.S. citizens’ civil liberties.
Feingold said he and other Senate opponents won’t try to stop the vote, but they “won’t allow it to pass quickly.”
Instead, Feingold, D-Wis., told an audience at the New America Foundation that he plans to highlight the bill’s flaws in floor speeches. There may be several procedural votes before final passage, he added. Feingold said he and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., met with Senate leader Harry Reid last week to discuss their objections.
That was a day ago. Now today:
This is a deeply flawed bill, which does nothing more than offer retroactive immunity by another name. We strongly urge our colleagues to reject this so-called ‘compromise’ legislation and oppose any efforts to consider this bill in its current form. We will oppose efforts to end debate on this bill as long as it provides retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies that may have participated in the President’s warrantless wiretapping program, and as long as it fails to protect the privacy of law-abiding Americans.
Funny funny funny.
Lets not forget that the Senate passed a similiar bill in February that included immunity 69-29 which then went to the House which vowed to never pass a bill with immunity. They promptly passed a bill with immunity and then sent it back to the Senate.
The Senate tried to get rid of immunity last time but couldn’t get through the filibuster. Now after this flip and flop they somehow think it will pass this time?
Nope….its all a big show for their masters at MoveOn.
We have to wonder how Barack is going to vote on this seeing as how he supported the bill himself a few days ago:
In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party’s base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.
Of course he did add the caveat that he would try his best to strip the immunity out of the bill, which won’t happen, but either way would vote for passage.
Now that the nutty left has been screeching to anyone that would lesson Feingold flipped. Will Obama do the same?
I betting yes on that one.
But I’m also betting he won’t be anywhere near Congress to cast his vote when it does come up. Wouldn’t be politically expedient you see. And if there is one thing we have learned about the messiah, he is your typical politician.
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What a crock. Feingold and the other dems only voted down this bill last time because it did not allow trial lawyers to sue the telecom companies. Civil liberties indeed. I guess that means the civil liberties of trial lawyers to sue anyone and evertying in sight for mega bucks. The dems think we are stupid. They have proven that time after time. If the telecoms did not have this protection, why would they cop-operate with the government? And if they did not co-operate with the government the dems wwould win by default. This was a case of coddling one of their special interest groups. Nothing more and nothing less. It was a win=win situation. I don’t think Obama will be there to vote for this bill either. He would lose support either way he voted.
Barack is not going to vote on it, no matter what. That’s his MO.