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The one and only Digby writes:

It's not about a frivolous or symbolic issue. It is very real and Dodd represents a large constituency of Americans who do not want to give the executive branch the power to wiretap Americans without a warrant and who do not think certain Telcom companies, with their high-priced, thoroughbred legal teams, need to be granted liability because they happily went along with the administration's lawbreaking. They could have refused. Others did.

The bill is a terrible bill. It's falling apart. It can be changed. There's no good reason for the Democratic leadership not to at least publicly support Dodd right now. I would think it actually helps their negotiating posture to have a Senator who is willing to place a hold on the bad bill and a leadership which insists it has to follow tradition and senate rules in allowing him to do it.