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Live blogging the Senate FISA vote today (Update: final vote 69 aye -28 nay. Passed. Barack Obama (and Sheldon Whitehouse) voted for it, Hillary Clinton (and Jack Reed) voted against it -- the netroots seem to have picked the wrong horse.):

Christy Hardin Smith at FireDogLake. That blog's founder, Jane Hamsher, is one of the founding members of the new group mentioned in the main link below:

From the right, at The Strata-Sphere : Live Blogging FISA Senate Votes

From the U.S. Senate, the FISA bill roll-call vote. Also there, the latest quick vote tallies and Roll Call Vote Summary on the session's amendments and bills.

Online Movement Aims to Punish Democrats Who Support Bush Wiretap Bill. Wired:

Online activists from the right and the left announced an unprecedented campaign (Strange Bedfellows) Tuesday to hold Democratic lawmakers accountable for caving in to the Bush administration on domestic spying.

A group of high-profile progressive bloggers and libertarian Republicans are rolling out a new political action committee called Accountability Now to channel widespread anger over pending legislation (FISA) that would legalize much of the president's warrantless electronic surveillance of Americans, and grant retroactive legal immunity to telephone companies that cooperated with the spying when it was still illegal.

Progressive author and lawyer Glenn Greenwald, who writes for Salon.com, and blogger Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, are spearheading the effort. They've hired the political media consultants behind a historic Ron Paul online fundraising drive to organize a similar "moneybomb," set to go off Aug. 8.

"That is the day Richard Nixon resigned, and the idea is that 35 years ago when you did this kind of stuff, you were forced out of office, and now congress drops everything to make your crimes legal," says Hamsher in an interview.

The campaign marks a milestone in the evolution of online grassroots organizing. The PAC is cherry-picking the tactics and tools that proved most successful in the presidential primary campaigns, and is using them to corral online support for the single issue of domestic spying. The PAC's money pay for advertisements in the districts of the House Democrats who voted for the spy bill -- potentially causing problems for those capitulating on the Bush wiretapping program...

It will be interesting to see if netroots tactics can be more effective than marching up and down with a sign.

I hear a grizzled Jimi Hendrix in a parallel life in which he grew old, "Are you ignorable? Have you always been ignorable?"