28 hours and counting in the 39!-Hour Pointless Senate Debate Thread #9

Edited: changed 30 hours to 39....

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Politicat

9 AM tomorrow, last I heard.

Take 2 hours off to come home from the internet cafe, make dinner and clean a pineapple and what do you get?

9 more hours of Repug stupidity.... can't they see they're on the ropes?

Else they're taking my advice and getting serious about it and holding a "legislative strike" and hoping we'll get tired and give up....

Never.

Politicat

'If this is mainstream, I don't know what mainstream is about. This is not mainstream in Louisianna.'

Wow, she was ripping bush, showing facts, and ripping the thugs.

"NO I WILL NOT YIELD!"... whoa.

pissed off at me. Go girl, rip them a new one.

http://landrieu.senate.gov/newsite/webform.html

Thank her for her passionate and heartfelt argument.

n/t

and sell copies to raise funds for the DSCC. She was totally outstanding!! Anyone who can leave hatch sputtering has my vote!

She was just too good. I had no idea.

Her strong presentation really moved me. Some of these Dems are really giving it to the Republicans at their GOP "telethon".
My pride is restored.

She got my vote, and wow, does she earn it! She is a good lady.

Damn, that was good!!

kleenex moment here too

She was simply fantastic. Nailed them on civil rights, nailed them on their hypocrisy, nailed them on everything.

and we are here debating this crap (paraphrased, of course) I lost it... I thought finally... someones got it... and now, Orrin is back to his talking points... so sad... so out of touch...

As a Louisianian I'm sure I'll be proud that she's my senator.

Mary Landrieu was great. She has fired up the troops by refusing to back down and telling it like it is. Wow, I haven't felt genuine deep passion from a politician for some time. Wow. :crazy:


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Looks like Mary has fired up Corzine. He's got a sign that reads "2 million jobs lost."

This is so important. Kick the shrubs butt, Jon! He's making the Repubs look unamerican. Go Jon, Go!!!

Fukin' moron. :grr:

Told him to quit being arrogant and go help create some jobs because it's the economy, stupid!

Oh boy is this backfiring on the Republicans.

168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4, 168-4

Corzine says don't like the rules? Change them then!

something like that the Repubs are like jailhouse bitches with their whining. Oh, jeez, I love it!

The Frist-Miller bill wants to disavow filibusters for judges.

The repugs are whining now....







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I'll have to catch "ER" in reruns 'cause I couldn't turn C-SPAN off while she had the floor.

She was awesome! I am so proud to be a Democrat right now.

And that was after I almost vomited seeing my Senator, Susie Collins, asking a preplanned question of Hatch "what is a filibuster?". Barf City.

Mary Landrieu, :yourock:

Mine is Wayne Allard :cry:

Thank G-d that he's gone in 2004. We have a strong candidate in Udall and he's getting the funding to defeat that turncoat Indian. How can he be an Republican and an Indian? Did he see what the FUCK the Interior Dept just did to his people???

Hawkeye-X

he enjoyed this debate because it was "good for our side". Shove it up their noses, Chuck!!!

as soon as he got up there. Or are you pulling my leg? I've been painting rooms today. Too many paint fumes!

Orrin just mumbled his way thru his oratory...he looked like he was just going through the motions. Schumer on the other hand, looks energized, as did all the Dems I watched today.

Damn, I missed Landrieu's speech.

:)

Harry Potter wins. Waiting for Hatch's time to be up. Maybe we'll
get lucky and he will loose his voice.

and I can't keep from laughing.

When I hear him talk, I keep thinking of Dana Carvey's imitation of Poppy Bush I. Just listen to him!

ROFL!

amazing how the Repugs claim that the courts are overstepping thier bounds and creating law, until the Repugs want something, then it's Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to Thomas we go...

his obsession is showing...

impeachment house hearings.

Coleman & Santorum hang around Graham like he is some kind of omnipotent brain. I watched their press conference today where Graham is gonna take this judge thingie to the Supreme Court.

Now as I watch the tag team efforts of these idiots, I think I'll get ready for bed, yawn. Someone from our team will knock the shit out 'em, I ain't worried.

little 'no where, know it alls' LOL! I hope Senator Clinton is up next.

Life is like a basket of fruit.

Yeah, Senator, and the Dems don't want your bad apples.

And those evil democrats are demonizing these people as "lemons" and putting their lives on hold. These people are doing a great service to our country yet we don't treat them with the respect they deserve. Well Senator Graham why don't you tell that to the president about the way he treats thousands of men and women in uniform and veterans, then we'll talk.

about those poor, poor people. The four nominees, I mean.

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well, he's been droning for a couple minutes now... He started off trying to tie into what Reid was saying about how he, too, is concerned about things like jobs and problems - but then he started complaining that he's there to do something about it rather than just complain about it.

Of course, how he's doing something about it by wasting everyone's time with this publicity stunt was beyond him.

Now he's talking about the way to grow jobs is to perform his constitutional responsibilities. I hear that, and all I can think is - My God - what an amazing loss for the people of Minnesota. Wellstone's shadow must haunt this poor man, the shoes will certainly never fit.

black kid one more... I'll scream...

"After all, I was forced to go to school with one!"

He is really upset... his voice was cracking a bit and you could see the fire in his eyes... I think he's holding himself back from saying some really naughty words...

I can hear the tremble in his voice. He seems like he wants to desperately say something really vile, but perhaps can't, because of Senate rules.
Pity.

I cry... family trait I hate... maybe it's one of his too... I thought for sure he was going to lose it a couple of times... WHat he says if fantastic, how he says it, well...

Lautenberg reading word for word the FNC memo from a giant blow-up behind him!

is amazing right now. I have more respect for him now than I ever have.

him say the Fair and Balanced Republican News Network? I peed!!!

he also mentioned marching them in like penguins "51 deep"
Lautenberg is really reaming them. This is hilarious!

come to the podium with lint balls in their hair and a little drool mark on their shoulder :silly:

I ask you, what the fuck does this have to do with the Democrats blocking her nomination?

Did Tom Daschle draw this? I really wish someone would tell me.

I'm convinced of it. I also think he has a secret 'thing' for Bill Clinton...

he's a fucking idiot.

just has impure thoughts of sodomy with a person of the same sex, which he begs for freedom from every Sunday...

either way I hope not... Like I have said a million times... havn't my people suffered enough, I mean we have Andrew Sullivan, ya know...

that she's the "daughter of a sharecropper." I guess it fits with the Republican image (though it has nothing to do with her qualifications as a judge).

But here's the thing: The vote is For or Against. There is no opponent.

All four judges won with over 60% of the vote. Here are their percentages:

Justice Janice Brown - 76%
Chief Justice Ronald George - 75%
Justice Stanley Mosk - 70%
Justice Ming Chin - 69%

200 people vote... 76 for 24 against 100 didn't cast a vote as a protest... wahlaa she's got 76%

I like Levin a great deal as a Senator... he's a great liberal voice in the Senate...

but couldn't he get rid of that awful combover?

is not distracting my attention to his words. He is doing the party good by shooting down the Repub foggy words about how they did not fillibuster any Democratic Judge nominees.

I love it when Democratic Senators get equal time, they will win the argument every time.

Her 84% figure is, at first, a harder figure to refute. Candidates for the Texas Supreme Court do have opponents. Judge Owen did, in fact, win 84% of the vote.

However, here are the results from that 2000 election:

Priscilla Owen REP 3,860,541 84.26%
Joe Alfred Izen, Jr. LIB 721,034 15.73%

Some of you may be wondering where the Democratic candidate is. He/she isn't there. The Dems didn't run a candidate against Judge Owen (or against any Supreme Court Justice). Instead, her only opponent was a Libertarian. No Libertarian that I have found received higher than 19% of the vote in Texas that year.

So, why did 84% of Texans support Judge Owen? Because they didn't really have any other choice.

I knew the figures were bogus; I was just too lazy to do the research.

The Owens numbers are an illustration of some facts that are getting "overlooked" in the fair and balanced presentation of our dear friends on the other side of the aisle:

1. In states where judges are elected, they very frequently run unopposed.

2. In the State of Washington (and, I suspect, in most states, since rules of judicial conduct are pretty much standardized), there's no meaningful campaigning by judges, since they can't campaign by promising to rule certain ways on certain matters; in fact they can't say much of anything meaningful. So even when there's opposition, it's not as if the public is voting on a full understanding of the issues.

3. Thus, most people vote for judges because they're standing there in the voting booth, there's a race to vote on, so, what the hell, punch it. (This would be the Brown effect.)

All of which points up the fact that Republicans are utterly conscience-free when it comes to making a good sound bite, and they're well-tuned to the fact that if you say something that sounds pretty good, no self-respecting Amurkan will question the underlying facts. Which is another way of saying nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Amurkans.

of candidates running unopposed. All you can do is vote Yes or No, or leave that part blank.

The research was no problem; all I did was just look up the official election results.

I've seen him speak two or three times during the last several hours, and all he seems to do is stand up and thank people. This is the Senate, Mark, not the Oscars.

I voted for him in '02 (warily, I admit; one of his campaign points was that he "supports President Bush in the War on Terror"), but if he's going to behave like this every time he speaks, I may be reluctant to vote for him again.

Oh, boy....

what a night.

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PCat