DU keeps having parties, congratulating themselves because they believe their phone calls to Senate offices have finally killed the beast, but it just keeps getting back up.
Quick, DU! More phone calls! It's climbing back out of its grave! Yi! Yi! Yi! Yi!
Feingold, who is considering seeking his party's presidential nomination, plans to make the Senate spend several more days on the bill.
Only Sens. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., and Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., supported Feingold on Thursday's vote to stop what Frist had characterized as a filibuster preventing the Senate from acting on the legislation...
Virtually all of the 45 senators who had stood with Feingold last year to kill a House-Senate agreement abandoned the effort this month after two of them, Republican Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Larry Craig of Idaho, struck a deal with the White House to add more privacy protections.
"Compromise and consensus require concessions and flexibility," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who sided with Feingold in December but who will now vote for the bill.
http://www.beaufortgazette.com/24hour/politics/story/3175841p-11883962c.html