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Reid Must Go: Telecom Immunity is Unforgiveable

rkamens's picture
Submitted by rkamens on Thu, 2008-01-24 21:20.

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From: The Pen
Date: Jan 24, 2008 2:43 PM
Subject: FISA Action Page: It's Time For A Majority Leader Who Is More Than A Gutless Supplicant
To: 2600denver@gmail.com

Yesterday Harry Reid again brought forward the version of the FISA
bill containing a provision for telecom immunity for their criminal
complicity in illegal wiretaps of American citizens. Sure we need to
win another filibuster, but we also need a stronger message. Reid
must go.

What part of exercising power doesn't Harry Reid get? The Washington
Post reports him "pleading" with the White House. And yet, it is his
decision which version of the FISA bill to have the Senate consider,
and by choosing to bring forward the bad one, he is knowingly forcing
opponents of yet another "get out of jail free card" for Cheney
cronies to get 60 votes to strip it out of the bill. Or filibuster
yet again.

Step Down Harry Action Page:
http://www.usalone.com/step_down_harry.php (anyone can use this link)

Facebook Version:
http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum784 (for this
link must be a member of Facebook and logged in)

This is the last straw. Time and again he has abdicated his
leadership, claiming he is "personally" opposed to things, while
collaborating to stack the deck in favor of the other side of the
policy issue. Reid has got to go.

And call them on the phone too. Here are the tested toll free
numbers, 800 828-0498, 800 614 2803 and 866 340 9281. And there is a
local phone number lookup on the regular action page above to get you
all the local district phone numbers.

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