Dodd: Acts, not words
Chris Dodd looks so much like a president he ought to be one.
The five-term senator from Connecticut just took the best action of any of the candidates in the course of the campaign. While others were merely “presenting” programs, Dodd stood up in the senate itself and blocked Bush’s Military Commissions Act, which gives “retroactive immunity” to all the telecom companies that participated in Bush’s illegal spying on and wiretapping ordinary American citizens.
The legislation was supported by a bunch of spineless Democrats headed by Jay Rockefeller and apparently Majority Leader Harry Reid. But senate tradition permits any single senator to take a bill off the table until his or her questions are resolved. Dodd did.
His official statement summed it up telegraphically: “Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons. No more.”
He actually pledged personally to filibuster against this trashing of the Constitution.
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