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Wiretapping Ploy Fails

There’s a good round up of what happened over at C&L:

Crooks and Liars » Jay Rockefeller on FISA: Bush is committing Political terrorism: Cloture vote fails

Short story is that the GOP fell well short of their pathological attempt to play a national security issue for political advantage. The cloture vote in the Senate failed, so they’ll actually get to discuss amendments.
I’m certain that Bush will accuse the democratic majority of stalling the “Protect America Act” that he claimed to be so important, yet was willing to let expire in a game of political chicken. I guess we’ll hear Bush whine about it during his SOTU speech tonight. Stay tuned…

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