It's my hope that this post won't lead to a lot of discussion, but rather to a few recs and a lot of action.  As you know, the FISA vote has been delayed until after the July 4th recess.  The bill will be taken up again on July 8th.  If you care about FISA, here's what you need to do before the Senate reconvenes:

Write or call Senator Obama's office and your U.S. Senators' offices (Democrat and Republican).  Ask them to support the Dodd-Feingold amendment to strip telecom immunity from the bill.  Also, ask them to support the Bingaman amendment, which would stay pending cases against the telecoms until 90 days after Congress receives a report on the warrantless surveillance program from the Inspector General's office.  This amendment would effectively kill the immunity provision until our new president takes office, since there is little chance of an investigation under the Bush administration.

Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to call or write Senators Feingold and Dodd to thank them for the good work they're doing.  A few other links worth checking out:

Potential Feingold amendments to FISA
Operation Read The Bill
A message from Senator Feingold

Like I said, I hope this post will lead more to action than discussion.  I think everyone who regularly reads these posts is completely familiar with where every other poster on this site stands on FISA (some more than others).  Now's the time to act.

After years of working as a community organizer, state legislator and U.S. Senator (cynically promoting "liberal" causes and casting thousands of phony votes in order to fool us into thinking he's a liberal Democrat) Barack Obama is finally showing his true face.  It's not a pretty picture.  On the basis of a FISA vote he has not yet cast, and some less-than-liberal statements he has made over the past couple of weeks, we can now be positively certain that Barack Obama is a conservative Republican--possibly THE most conservative Republican of all time.  Everything he has done in the past has now been exposed as fake and/or opportunistic pandering.  This is SOOOO depressing.  How could he have fooled so many millions of people?

I've had it.  Obama's soon-to-be-cast-and-we-already-know-what-he'll-do vote to support the FISA amendment, which is really a proposal to BURN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND SEND ALL U.S. CITIZENS TO HELL FOREVER AND EVER will be the last straw.  As soon as he votes.  And does whatever else we're pretty sure he's going to do.  Then I will vote for John McCain.  Or possibly George W. Bush for a third term.  Because Barack Obama is NOT PERFECT.  And I refuse to support any candidate unless he or she is perfect and I agree with them 100% of the time.

Call me an idealist--I don't care.  Now that we're finally on the verge of putting a Democrat back in the White House, I have decided that I'm no longer willing to settle for less than absolute perfection.