Thank you Chris Dodd!

by Kathy from MO

Americans owe Chris Dodd and the handful of senators who stood with him yesterday a big "Thank You!" He is one of the few in Congress willing to stand up to the Bush Administration and demand that the shredding of our Constitution stop. I am speaking about the FISA bill and retroactive immunity for the telecom companies who cooperated with Bush illegally for the last five years. Dodd stood prepared to filibuster the Senate until immunity was stripped from this bill. The Dems again were ready to hand Bush and the Rethugs what they wanted, to keep in secrecy and out of the courts all of the illegal spying that has gone on. Dodd was wonderful speaking yesterday and standing firm for our civil liberties. I am sad to say that none of the Dem candidates for President who said they support his filibuster were even in DC to vote on it or help keep the floor. I am really tired of politicians giving lip service to the people with no action. Chris Dodd said "enough is enough". The shredding of the Constitution must stop now. He is battling not only the corrupt Bush administration and its toadies in the Senate, but also the ever fearful Dems who were ready to cave. Harry Reid did not even bring the better written Judiciary Committee bill to the floor for a vote that had immunity stripped from it. He did not honor Dodd's hold on the bill, and there was really no reason to bring any of this up in December when the FISA bill does not expire until February. Reid was doing what Bush and the Rethugs wanted because he thought that's what would pass with the magic 60 votes instead of standing on principle and saying these things should not pass at all. After a full day of speaking, Dodd succeeded temporarily getting the bill pulled from the floor last night.
I know that Dodd does not have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nomination, but I am sending him a contribution and a thank you note today to encourage him to continue speaking for the American people and protecting our civil liberties. We need more like him in Washington, people with a backbone and convictions, ready to do what is difficult. God bless you, Chris Dodd!!!!