Democratic presidential contender Chris Dodd stole second place from Obama in the latest Daily Kos straw poll and that's all about Dodd's promise to filibuster the Senate's FISA bill over telecom surveillance immunity.
Or that's all about seeing a Democratic Senator with an actual spine!
Now TPM is reporting that MoveOn, with the support of lefty bloggers, is launching an all out campaign to persuade Hillary and Obama to behave as if they were part of an actual opposition party (!) and stand with Dodd:
In a move that will up the pressure on Hillary and Barack Obama to stand firm against the Senate telecom immunity FISA bill, MoveOn and a dozen top progressive blogs will launch an all-out campaign tomorrow to pressure the two Senators into publicly declaring their support for Chris Dodd's threat to place a hold on and filibuster the bill, Election Central has learned.
MoveOn spokesman Adam Green tells me that the group will send out an email to "thousands" of its members tomorrow morning, and thousands more throughout the day, asking them to call the offices of Hillary and Obama and demand that they publicly affirm their support for Dodd.
"We'll be asking Obama and Clinton to publicly get Chris Dodd's back and say in a statement that they will explicitly support his hold and filibuster," Green tells me. "Pretty much this is the exact same ask made to Joe Biden in a Washington Post chat. The question was, Will you join Chris Dodd? He said Yes." [via ]
Speaking of how it still feels like one party rules, oh look, Verizon and AT%T pour money "into the coffers of Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia." Rockefeller just happens to chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Update from dkos: "Today, both Obama and Clinton issued statements offering conditional support for a filibuster."
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