I think the Dodd and the Blogs just won a Big One today....

[Junkdrawer]

All day the Corporate media has been silent on Dodd's principled stand to stop retroactive TelCom immunity.

But the Blogs all had it front row and center.

So...Orrin Hatch gives a speech denouncing the Blogs, Fox News airs a story that the bill is dead until after the start of the New Year and Harry Reid announces on the floor that, indeed, the bill is dead until after the New Year.


Way to go Dodd...

Way to go Blogs...

[ThomWV]

1. It is huge and it has been amazing watching it unfold today on C-Span.

[robinlynne]

2. How the hell could fox news know that. We just found out 5 minutes ago, live.

[Junkdrawer]

Reid consults with the Republican leadership...they call Fox...

:shrug:

[rockymountaindem]

3. Indeed

Now everybody vote for Dodd!

[undeterred]

4. Dodd has guts.

[wtmusic]

5. This makes my day.

Every once in a while the sun peeps through the clouds. Hot-damn. :thumbsup:

[gaiilonfong]

6. Senator Dodd you are a REAL PATRIOT AND HERO!

And you Orrin Hatch are a fargin IDIOT THUG CROOK!
Dodd won one for the progressives and our constitution!

[LakeSamish706]

7. I am absolutely impressed with Senator Dodd... He was starting to appeal...

big time with the last debate, but today just cinched it for me....

[HCE SuiGeneris]

8. Not ONE national newscast even mentioning the story. That is so incredibly wrong!

:mad:

Edit -- didn't think about Faux as a news source... my bad. :smoke:

[Junkdrawer]

15. AFAIK, Fox didn't touch the story until they announced Dodd's victory....

Of course they spun it as Democratic weakness on terror...

[AX10]

9. That's my ONLY Senator! Chris Dood (D-CT)

:bounce:

That other asshole who endorsed MCSHAME doesn't count for shit.

[JerseygirlCT]

16. Exactly. That's what I always say, too

And if we're only to have one, at least we've got a good one.

[left is right]

18. I'll trade you!

Richard Lugar and a repuke to be named later or Evan Bayh and Baron Hill and we will call it even

[FreeStateDemocrat]

10. NYT: Telecom Industry Wins a Round on Eavesdropping (????)

By DAVID STOUT 2:55 PM ET
A bill to protect companies from lawsuits for cooperating with warrantless eavesdropping advanced in the Senate.

http://www.nytimes.com/

[Junkdrawer]

11. Amazing, huh? The whole thing changed between 3 PM and 5 PM Eastern...

I think the straw that broke the camel's back was that the Blogs laid the whole mess at Reid's feet...

[VP505]

12. I think somebody

will be making a correction real soon on that pre-mature declaration.

[lovuian]

13. Woohoo Dodd

:woohoo:

Telecom sweats it out some more

[Snotcicles]

14. Can we start calling these Blogs, The Dodd Sqaud. nt

[annabanana]

17. Recommended - because online is the only place you'll find out

that the telecoms got put on hold for a few weeks...

Maybe they think we'll all go away over the holidays.....

*~snort~*

[KoKo]

19. K&R....

[LeftHander]

20. K&R nt