Caved

Fucking cowards.

The Senate today -- led by Jay Rockefeller, enabled by Harry Reid, and with the active support of at least 12 (and probably more) Democrats, in conjunction with an as-always lockstep GOP caucus -- will vote to legalize warrantless spying on the telephone calls and emails of Americans, and will also provide full retroactive amnesty to lawbreaking telecoms, thus forever putting an end to any efforts to investigate and obtain a judicial ruling regarding the Bush administration's years-long illegal spying programs aimed at Americans.

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The Dodd/Feingold amendment to remove telecom immunity from the bill just failed by a whopping vote of 31-67 -- 20 votes shy of the 50 needed for a passage.

Click here to see who voted to give the Bush administration and its co-conspirators a Get Out of Jail Free card.

Since not everyone will click through, and because these spineless swine deserve as much light on them as possible, the following Democratic senators violated their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution: Bayh, Inouye, Johnson, Landrieu, McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Stabenow, Feinstein, Kohl, Pryor, Rockefeller, Salazar, Carper, Mikulski, Conrad, Webb, and Lincoln. All of the Republicans -- every single one -- also voted this way, of course.

Interestingly, Sen. Hillary Clinton did not vote. On a matter of such significance, on an issue important to voters, she couldn't be bothered to show what she stands for. And tomorrow she will continue asking Americans to make her the next president of the United States. My question to her: Why should we? When her critics say she is a triangulating careerist interested only in her own professional advancement, this is exactly the kind of thing they're talking about.

Fortunately, the House can reject this travesty of justice. Click here to sign a petition urging House members to reject this disgrace.