Tagaris writes about the start of the FISA debate at Open Left. He closes:

Then Chris Dodd will use his historic right as a U.S. Senator … to “talk for awhile.”

That’s in reference to Senator Dodd’s somewhat ironic, somewhat self-effacing line in his floor speech last night where he talks about his plans for today, citing his right as a Senator to…”talk for a while” or filibustering. In Dodd’s speech you saw how deeply he cares about this issue and how frustrated he is to see his colleagues in the Senate taking our country down a path away from the rule of law and towards the rule of man. Talking for a while, in the end, may be all he can do. But he will do it and I hope his peers and the American people listen.