Filibuster bluster – PLUS: Leftroots continue to express disappointment with BO’s latest FISA stance
For all that talk yesterday of a Democrat filibuster on the FISA compromise in the Senate, it wasn’t even close:
Discussion: Kennedy v. Louisiana (UPDATE: OBAMA DISAGREES WITH DECISION, UPDATE 2: JINDAL REAX)
The decision on Kennedy v. Louisiana, a case that decided whether or not child rape was punishable by death, was announced this morning. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to blog on it (daytime blogging will continue to be light for me for the forseeable future) but now that I’ve gotten home I’ve had a chance to read what happened to that poor little 8 year old girl at the hands of a disgrace to civilized society, as well as read some of the ruling, I’m not getting at all how the majority came to its decision.
Obama on town hall meetings – then versus now
Nail, meet hammer.
Senators Dodd, Feingold, and Reid set to filibuster House-approved FISA bill
… because they don’t want telecoms to have retroactive immunity from lawsuits (via Memeo):
A crack in the ice
I was wondering if the bitter Bubba would let go of his extreme dislike of Obama and turn around and support him. Today, he did: