Posted on 06/23/2008 1:17:18 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph
Sen. Barack Obama's shifting position on the FISA bill -- on Friday he released a statement saying that he supported the bill, and on Saturday announced that he would seek to strip out the section providing retroactive immunity to communications companies -- is being directed by aides to Sen. Chris Dodd, who also opposes the compromise legislation.
Dodd and senior Obama campaign and Senate staff have been speaking for close to a week on strategy to kill the bill as it became increasingly apparent that negotiations on the bill were coming to a successful end.
"Dodd is taking his marching orders from the far left, the ACLU, MoveOn, all the groups that have been lining up and raising millions off this issue for more than a year," says a Senate Republican leadership aide...
Dodd, according to a Democratic leadership aide, went to Senate majority leader Harry Reid and asked to be placed front and center in opposition to the bill, in part, so that he could build vocal support for himself on the far left in the face of what should be a mounting scandal related to his pursuing and receiving a sweetheart mortgage deal.
"If all [Dodd] is doing is sitting back and taking it on the chin for the mortgage, he becomes an albatross politically. But now he gets the ACLU crowd all excited and supporting him, and Obama and others can associate with him because he appears to have strong public support," says the Democrat aide.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Hmmmm...
It appears the ONLY activity on Capital Hill that receives widespread bipartisan support is CORRUPTION...
Corruption — the mother’s milk of politicians...
America is being “served” by the least competent or trustworthy among us......
Very sad.
Nancy Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi Jr., is a loan officer for Countrywide. He should be investigated.
Senator Dodd is a filthy, corrupt, crooked politician. And he should be voted out of office after being censured by the Senate.
Its the lead story on Nightly News. NOT
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