Do progressive bloggers have the power to force the Democrats to finally hold the President accountable for his actions?

In a move that will up the pressure on Hillary and Barack Obama to stand firm against the Senate telecom immunity FISA bill, MoveOn and a dozen top progressive blogs will launch an all-out campaign tomorrow to pressure the two Senators into publicly declaring their support for Chris Dodd's threat to place a hold on and filibuster the bill, Election Central has learned.

MoveOn spokesman Adam Green tells me that the group will send out an email to "thousands" of its members tomorrow morning, and thousands more throughout the day, asking them to call the offices of Hillary and Obama and demand that they publicly affirm their support for Dodd.

"We'll be asking Obama and Clinton to publicly get Chris Dodd's back and say in a statement that they will explicitly support his hold and filibuster," Green tells me. "Pretty much this is the exact same ask made to Joe Biden in a Washington Post chat. The question was, Will you join Chris Dodd? He said Yes."

If Hillary and Obama don't comply, Green added, "it would send an unfortunate signal to Democratic voters about whether they're willing to stand up to George Bush. The idea is to get Democrats to stand on principle and exercise the powers of their office to stop Bush from covering up how far he went in illegally spying on the private emails and phone calls of innocent Americans."

Well I am going to lend my support to this cause, as insignificant as it may be.

I applaud my fellow progressives for rising up and demanding that the Democrats start doing their damn jobs! It is beyond frustrating to read day after day the accounts of this administration continuing to push through policies designed to increase our commitment in Iraq and steal our freedoms here at home.

We placed all of our hopes on the Democrats in the mistaken belief that they understood our anger and frustration and would act on our behalf. That has not happened.