Shake It Up

by digby

Chris Dodd’s campaign is asking for your help:

Today, that FISA fight we’ve all been waiting for begins.

In a few hours, Majority Leader Harry Reid will ask for something called a “motion to proceed” on FISA, effectively disregarding Chris Dodd’s “hold” on the bill.

Remember when this all started playing out? A lot of people rushed to send out strongly worded press releases about how committed they were to “supporting a filibuster.”

Call or email the Senators that pledged to support a filibuster and ask them to be there when it happens to pick up the ball after Chris Dodd can go no longer.

Leadership is demonstrated through action.

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Dodd is way out on a limb on this. He’s been abandoned by his party leadership and he’s being forced to leave his Iowa campaign in the middle of the battle to come back to DC and do an old fashioned filibuster of this bill.

Senators Clinton, Biden and Obama said they would support a filibuster. Edwards said he supported one too. If they would agree to come back to the Senate and help Dodd talk all night, it would bring much need attention to the issue and show the Democratic base that these candidates value them. Imagine if they all (including Edwards) agreed to suspend their campaigns and come back to Washington to stand with Dodd. It would be electrifying — and it would show the country that the Democrats are prepared to fight. (It would also give them a bunch of free TV time.)

Will any of them (all of them?) do the right thing or will they blow it off?

Go here and ask them.

*And no I am not an idiot Pollyanna who was just born yesterday, so save your insults for the next post, ok? This is rhetorical.

But if people contact them in large numbers they will at least be on notice that they will get a lot of love or some really harsh criticism from the netroots depending on what they do with this. If they want to avoid the unnecessary unpleasantness of a lot of angry blognats swirling around their campaigns in the last weeks before the vote, the three of them could think about placing a little call to the majority leader and suggest that this is more trouble than it’s worth and that he should, at the very least, table this pos. That’s all I’m saying …

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