Our love for Kerry (Mr. President) put the other over the top...

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D.H.

Bringing up the history of the fillibuster!

Senator Frank Lautenberg, "Why don't our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, open their eyes, take their heads out of the sand, and read the rules?"

To hell with this no-talent, no-brain, idiotic ass-clown Bush!

Got a phone call in the middle of his speech. Listening now and crying for my country. What hope he gives me that we can survive this storm and the storms still to come.

Thank you John. Just Thank You. :hug:

It was apparent what pukes are attempting hurts

It was good to hear after the Republicans' lies.

You know it's gotta be good when a Senator makes a Star Wars reference... :popcorn:

D.H.

Saw it last night and it was great!!!

I'm hearing Dan Hick's "Canned Music" right about NOW. :)

One party take it all!

using the connection to the new movie.

"This is how liberty died."

I shouted, "Oh my God, it's George Bush" Got a pretty good response :)

Going to do it again if I go tonight.

Download 'em here -- and check out the new ad at

http://www.moveonpac.org/

will get it, that woudl be a great line on Fox, wanna bet tehy don't show it

Right wing sites want to boycott it because of what Lucas said:

Boycott Star Wars And George Lucas

When will Hollywood learn? George Lucas and his intergalactic empire have now been added to our official boycott list. Sad...but necessary. A bigger Star Wars fan you'll never find...until now. Our country is at war and Lucas spouts off this crap?

Star Wars a cautionary tale about politics

Star Wars is a wakeup call to Americans about the erosion of democratic freedoms under George W. Bush, George Lucas said yesterday.

Lucas, at a Cannes film festival press conference yesterday, said he first wrote the framework of Star Wars in 1971 when reacting to then-U.S. president Richard Nixon and the events of the Vietnam War. But the story still has relevance today, he said, and is part of a pattern he has noticed in history.

"I didn't think it was going to get quite this close," he said of the parallels between the Nixon era and the Bush presidency, which has been sacrificing freedoms in the interests of national security.

"It is just one of those re-occuring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will awaken people to the situation of how dangerous it is . . . The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we are doing now in Iraq are unbelievable."

They block entry from DU site but it's here:
http://www.pabaah.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=930&mode=&order=0&thold

:rofl:

did I miss Biden this morning?

He just brought up the fact that there are clear parallels between the movie Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and what is going on in this country. He brought up Padmé's lamenting quote when Palpatine declares the Republic an empire, "So this is how liberty dies, among thunderous applause." I love this man!

MoveOn using Star Wars film similarities to help explain what's happening to us:

See the ad -- download the flyers -- FIGHT BACK!

You can get started right now, at:

http://www.moveonpac.org /

:rofl: :rofl:
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:rofl:

LEAHY: "It takes more than holding hands to bring down oil prices... we will lose the ability to work in a bipartisan fashion."
:applause:

to bring down oil prices"--Leahy...

This is a senator who actually believes in his responsibility to the nation. :toast:

D.H.

Claiming that this would prevent voting forever. :puke: Hyperbole and distortion, yadda yadda yadda.

In the words of Basil Fawlty: "Well, we seem to have both ends of the evolutionary scale here today."

Ack. A nice cup of STFU would do him good. Guess I'll return to work. :boring:

and add "to bad it's all a load of crap" :puke:

D.H.

And be forced to spew all that :puke:

I'm so sorry. I just can't help :rofl:

They were so so stupid to do this.

Have they not been listening? They really only have these talking points don't they.

I really cannot stand to listen to the same old talking points. The repubs stand up and repeat, repeat repeat...They don't hear a word we are saying.:shrug:

I find myself turning off the tv until the democratic hour...I can't stomach it anymore.

I am thinking it is time for me to head out to the farm and clean some stalls. About the same amount of fun as listening to them sling the stuff around.

I would care to listen to them if they were not all saying the same things and they have all just been proven to be incorrect. Can't any of them listen and then actually rebut based on what was said? Nope, they can't. Bring out the father card, the family card and talk about how the rules will kill them. Sheesh. IDIOTS!

with their same old circular argument, speeches that essentially say NOTHING except the Shrubbie should have his way, because after all, he shoplifted the Pwesidency, fair & square!

I almost felt sorry for Burr having to talk so close after Kerry and other GREAT Dem speakers.






Then I remembered he's an asshat, and I didn't feel so sorry for him...

D.H.

SSDD

Same Shit Different Day

Santorum is a jackass.

WHO DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO BELIEVE A WORD HE SAYS!

Nobody is that stupid.

:rofl:

How about the jackasses that voted for him and Bush? Yeah, there are people that dumb -- they come in bunches like bananas.

His Fakery.

I don't happen to believe that.

But watch, this is where they have screwed up: they aren't paying attention to the thinking people. Who know a fake ad, a fake Texan, a fake rancher, a fake uniter, a fake popular president -- you get the idea.

It's a good day. :)

Can you believe that he just slapped us in the face with the very idea? Raging at us wtih "losing the election," and "I guess what who the American people voted for doesn't matter."

You're god-damn right it doesn't matter to you Puke bastards -- you stole the motha-fuckin' election cocksucker! (Well, that's what I just shouted at my television at least....)

"A mission of the church is not a religious organization".

Someone -- please -- get this guy Hooked on Phonics. :eyes:

Idiocy and hypocrisy in one!

Thanks. And ENJOY.

most mornings. This a.m. was special, there were some with, I figured, an IQ of 65. There is no way you could convince them that Bush isn't the greatest savior of this country. They can't get off gay marriage, prayer in school, abortion, etc. They are truly unbelievably dumb.

Tell the truth santorum...you don't want a cure, you want a final solution

He fooled me. He talked so calmly I thought he was Reid. :P

"I'm not anxious to do this."

Bull hockey. Don't do it!

Edit for spelling

Santorum... What a rancid dooche-bag. He just compared Democrats challenging the dismantling of the filibuster rule to Hitler! How dare he! How dare he! This is the mother-fucking height of hypocrisy!

When Novak used a concentration camp analogy in discussing the filibuster issue, the Jewish community went ballistic. I can't imagine Santorum's comments going over any better....

onenote

I think. It's starting to get a lot of press.

LOL
Santorum wants to respect tradition.

compromise and comity. My tush. He's probably in holed up in the corner restroom with Oral Hatch and Jeff Sessions trying to figure out how to stick it to the Ds next. THey are so predictable.

I can't believe this blowhard.

...says Ricky.

Who's that in your avatar?

Never mind... I see, he is from Penn. I hope they get rid of the baster!

have made "activism" a four letter word.

Because the sheeple should just move along with the prod, passively, to the slaughter.

At this point, if you can attend at all, you can see their desperation. They've dug a big old ditch for themselves and now get to try to climb back out of it. They won't recover from this one.

Bye, MendacityCentral.

So much drama there, Santorum...

Next up. Johnny Isakson (R) GA.

thank God for small favors...

Now he's about to distort an Iraqi-Kurd saying they would use the filibuster for the minority...

No, you don't get a guarantee, what if the nomination doesn't get out of committee....

the fact that they actually represent more people that the f**cking Republicans???

Schumer's reading a list of the judicial nominees that have been confirmed

But he put up a chart showing the figures, roughly 44 mil. for Repubs and 45 mil for Dems. They all need to emphasize this point, it is so telling, majority my rear.

(D) NY

reading the names of everyone that they have actually confirmed.... LOL

D.H.

I love it!

D.H.

He's doing a great job reading off the entire list of all the Bush appointees that have been approved so far. It sets up a nice appetizer and it makes the Republican claims sound that much more idiotic.

208 to 10... Brilliant tactic!

D.H.

yeah, about that...he said they'd come back to the list later :)

Now up Jeff Bingamon (D) New Mexico

D.H.

Bingaman is going over the Rules of the Senate...

There is a desire to change the rules so we cannot exercise our responsibilities of advise and consent. We must always have an independent judiciary. We cannot turn the Senate into a rubber stamp for any administration.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D) Florida is up now.

Nelson's showing that he approved 97% of Bush's nominations so far:

"Am I not entitled as Sr Senator from FL to exercise my judgement as life appt for judges that they don't have the judicial temprement to be judges for life?"

Nelson's asking "what's next?"

Are they going to take away my right to protect our military assets? Are they going to take away my right to protest drilling off the coast of Fl?

Checking for quorum...

I think Frist will be showing up shortly.

I can hear the Imperial March music... ;)

on Bravo RIGHT NOW!

I watched the Dems, but can NOT stomach Frist. Can always watch highlights later of MSM.

For now, I'd rather honor the Filibuster with "West Wing!"

Oh, sorry--that's reserved for when Crashcart arrives to preside! :evilgrin:

blah blah blah

Thanking people for participation
Tomorrow debate resumes...(more tonight as well)

Cloture motion tomorrow friday
Mon back to session
continue debate on Owens

Encouraging senators to speak

Vote on Monday approx 5:30p, procedural vote

Cloture vote Tuesday
Reid & Frist need to discuss timing.

I don't know if he said "Cloture motion" or friday or "Closure motnion" on friday. I think Cloture.

I know he said Cloture vote Tuesday.

Or the polls are getting to them and they want to think this over for a few more days.

It gives them one more Sunday to rally their base.

:bounce: