WP: Dissidents' Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster

[DeepModem Mom]

Dissidents' Detainee Bill May Face Filibuster
Frist Warns GOP Opponents of Bush's Proposal They Must Accept Two Key Provisions
By Charles Babington and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 20, 2006; Page A04


Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said that any legislation on interrogating terrorism suspects must "preserve our intelligence programs" and must "protect classified information from terrorists." (By Melina Mara -- The Washington Post)

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist signaled yesterday that he and other White House allies will filibuster a bill dealing with the interrogation and prosecution of detainees if they cannot persuade a rival group of Republicans to rewrite key provisions opposed by President Bush.

Frist's chief of staff, Eric M. Ueland, called the dissidents' bill "dead."

With Congress scheduled to adjourn in nine days, delaying tactics such as a filibuster could kill the drive to enact detainee legislation before the Nov. 7 elections, a White House priority. Bush faced still more problems in the House, where GOP moderates Christopher Shays (Conn.), Michael N. Castle (Del.), Jim Leach (Iowa) and James T. Walsh (N.Y.) publicly threw their support behind the bill opposed by the White House. The four Republicans told Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) that any House bill must maintain the dissidents' principles.

On another front, legislation to authorize Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may be in more jeopardy. Frist said yesterday that he referred the warrantless surveillance matter to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for further review and would not bring it up for Senate consideration until next week.

Yesterday's actions significantly dimmed prospects that Congress can complete its national security agenda before adjournment. Frist (R-Tenn.) acknowledged that a majority of the 100 senators back the rival group on military commissions but that there are not enough to block a filibuster, which requires a super-majority of 60....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901463.html

[Ignacio Upton]

1. Filibuster...didn't they try to take that away just a year ago?

They only want it when it's convenient for them.

[Webster Green]

2. Fuck that, Cat-Killer, how about the all important "up or down vote"

Flip-flop much, you sicko?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Torturing Filibustereans Vs. Filibustering Torturers

How sick are George AWOL Bush and the republicons?

Words fail.

[Charlie Brown]

4. Frist in 2005

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-26-filibuster_x.htm

"At the end of the day, one will be left standing ... the Constitution, which allows up-or-down votes, or the filibuster," Frist said.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. Thanks, Charlie Brown! nt

[rodeodance]

5. the dissidents'----whow, quite the label they got.

[gratuitous]

7. I thought the filibuster represented the tyranny of the minority

Golly Dr. Frist. I'm really getting mixed signals from you. Maybe I should send you a videotape and you could diagnose my confusion? I'd really appreciate it.

One thing I'm not confused about: You're a self-serving political hack whose first and only concern is your own political hide. You never consider the needs of the country or what's best for the nation, just what benefits you and your political benefactors. Why don't you just go back to killing stray cats?

[Supersedeas]

8. can't get more lockstep with the Bush regime than that!!!