I don't think we ask much as American citizens these days. We want to end costly and misguided wars, have health care available for our citizens, offer opportunity to those that work hard and basically a government that is responsive to us, instead of corporations. Oh yeah, and to preserve that Constitution written by our founding fathers. Republicans in the Senate (and George Bush) do not care about that document, especially when it gets in the way of illegally spying on American citizens. George Bush wants retroactive immunity for the telecommunications industry' complicity in his crimes against the people so that there are no court cases to expose the evidence that could, in theory, convict his ass.
The vote that will decide whether or not Bush gets away with this will happen at 4:30 this afternoon here on the East Coast. Several Democratic Senators so far seem to be in the hands of the telecommunications industry, caring more about having money to get re-elected than about the ideals and principles for which our nation was founded on. Despite that bad news, all we need is 41 Senators to vote against cloture so we can add the amendment to allow the corporations to be held accountable. Well now that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have decided to show up on the Senate floor for the vote (to vote against cloture of course) we only need three more Senators to come around to support us.
Now do as McJoan at DailyKos says:
So keep pushing, clear up until 4:30 tomorrow afternoon, EST.
The Senators we need to convince of this are those who voted with the Republicans to table the Leahy substitute amendment, the version of the bill that contained all of those protections, and didn't allow telco amnesty. One of them, Rockefeller, has already said he'll vote no on cloture. Call the rest of the Senators and tell them to stand with their majority on Monday's cloture vote and vote no.
- Bayh (202) 224-5623
- Carper (202) 224-2441
- Inouye (202) 224-3934
- Johnson (202) 224-5842
- Landrieu (202)224-5824
- McCaskill (202) 224-6154
- Mikulski (202) 224-4654
- Nelson (FL) (202) 224-5274
- Nelson (NE) (202) 224-6551
- Pryor (202) 224-2353
- Salazar (202) 224-5852
In addition, call or e-mail your own Senators. Both CREDO and EFF have great tools to make it easy.
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