Well, all that bellowing from Connecticut's contribution to climate change, Senator for Life Chris Dodd, has finally come to a merciful end. He garnered less than one third of the Senate behind his "screw the phone company" amendment to the FISA bill

 http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0708/070908cdpm2.htm

Guess lots of Democrats are up for "shredding the constitution". So much for Glenn Greenwald telling them they had nothing to fear from dismantling our intel capabilities. 

and in other news, Dodd's $300 Billion thank you note to the subprime mortgage indistry looks like it will pass the Senate thanks to the "Tommy Republicans",http://www.thenextright.com/ironman/the-tommy-republicans but  then it faces a quagmire in conference with the House

Federal housing rescue faces new delay in Congress

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j5mlxGEjEsKSYimbvNffCfdm_GoQD91QJ6KG0

Perhaps this monstrosity posing as compassion, which is a bailout to reckless lenders and left wing activists, will fall of its own weight given enough time...one hopes

Chris Dodd's Summer of No Love, loses on his signature issue of FISA telecom immunity badly and likely to see his brainchild of a mortgage bailout (made necessary by a Banking Committee chairman who abandoned his post in the midst of crisis)http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602146.html  going slowly under the waves...