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December 16, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
BillBlast: Feingold's Filibuster
The Senate voted 52-47 today not to limit debate on the USA PATRIOT Act, and Sen. Russ Feingold, the mastermind behind the opposition, quickly claimed victory in a post at TPMCafe.
Feingold, D-Wis., has been guest blogging at the site all week, as the Senate pondered its next move on a bill to extend the life of the 2001 anti-terrorism law. He has been fairly prolific, too, posting 10 entries. That's two a day -- not bad for a senator also trying to rally support against a once overwhelmingly popular law.
Feingold gave some of the credit for his success to the TPMCafe community. "There is no doubt that the reaction from citizens like you on this issue helped convince a number of members to vote with us," he wrote.
The PATRIOT Act currently ranks as the fifth most-searched topic at the blog search engine Technorati.com. Americablog and Instapundit are among those that have posted on the issue today.
The debate over the PATRIOT Act had generated plenty of commentary on its own. But this morning's New York Times piece about the Bush administration spying on Americans triggered a whole new blog swarm. Michelle Malkin critiqued that story at length in a post dubbed "Red Alert: Chicken Littles On The Loose."
(I guess she hasn't seen the new "Chicken Little" movie, or she'd know that maverick fowl wasn't just suffering from a bout of avian flu. He was right: The sky is falling!)
UPDATE: Read more commentary on the PATRIOT Act and Times story at Captain's Quarter's, Concurring Opinions, The Huffington Post and Hugh Hewitt, MyDD, New Donkey, Power Line and TalkLeft.
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