Batting 50%, at least...
Senator Klobuchar voted for amendment 3907 to S. 2248; this amendment would have removed the retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperated with the president's illegal wiretaps.
Senator Coleman, unfortunately, did not.
Breaking the law is not OK even when it's your allies doing it. It's not OK even if they have "national security" interests in mind. It's not even OK just because somebody in the executive branch of government says it's OK. (There are already provisions in FISA for companies that in good faith determine that there was a judicial, legislative, or statutory authorization.) That's what the rule of law means.
(Obama: yea. Clinton: no vote.)
See, when people talk about there being "no difference between the two major parties" this is the sort of thing they have in mind. 18 Democratic senators decided to go along with the scare talk and let major contributors off the hook. (Of course, not a single Republican voted for the amendment.)
Senator Coleman, unfortunately, did not.
Breaking the law is not OK even when it's your allies doing it. It's not OK even if they have "national security" interests in mind. It's not even OK just because somebody in the executive branch of government says it's OK. (There are already provisions in FISA for companies that in good faith determine that there was a judicial, legislative, or statutory authorization.) That's what the rule of law means.
(Obama: yea. Clinton: no vote.)
See, when people talk about there being "no difference between the two major parties" this is the sort of thing they have in mind. 18 Democratic senators decided to go along with the scare talk and let major contributors off the hook. (Of course, not a single Republican voted for the amendment.)