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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:19 AM
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Anyone listening to *?

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 09:41 AM by whometense

I'm listening on Stephanie Miller. It's like Mystery Science Theater - it hurts, but it's funny.

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TayTay

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:23 AM
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1. No, I'm listening to the idiot Snowe on that Finance Hearing

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 09:24 AM by TayTay

This is the real meat of the Bush Admins plan for not helping the Gulf. Market forces are what's needed. That will, naturally, help all the people. Nothing about the real people who are victims, just the opportunity to rape the helpless again.

This hearing is about taxes, I know and that's kind of boring. But this is the real meat of what the bastards have in store for the Gulf. I will get the trasncript tomorrow.

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TayTay

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:46 AM
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4. Somebody watch this hearing. This is amazing.

If Kerry comes to this, it will be for a huge smack-down. Snowe is trashing federal aid to this region.

Gawd, this is just horrendous. Watch this.

http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/hearings.htm

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:03 AM
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5. Just tuned in.

Schumer's talking. Is Kerry there?

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:21 AM
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7. Seems like little Ricky

is quite eager to tie himself to Senator Kerry right now. What does that say???

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karynnj

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:27 AM
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9. It is interesting as he and Teresa are unlikely to oppose him less

I would assume that Kerry is trying to get Republican sponsors and Santorum needs to appear more moderate becauses he's really in trouble.

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:28 AM
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11. That's what I assume too.

But my poor head. Is the deficit exploding or closing? Are tax revenues exploding? These people are such liars. I want Kerry to speak. I need a dose of the straight truth.

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TayTay

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:45 AM
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12. Thanks!

Got pulled into a meeting.

So even Santorum wants to align with the good guys! (Someone check, hell may have frozen over.)

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karynnj

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:23 AM
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8. Santorum just mentioned a single family housing bill

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 10:24 AM by karynnj

that he was sponsoring with Kerry. Snow said it was in their plan and would work with them. To help people afford housing - mention Secretary Jackson (whoever that is)

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CBHagman

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Thu Oct-06-05 12:11 PM
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22. That's the HUD secretary.

Alphonso Jackson is secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

I haven't seen any of the testimony today, which is just as well, because it would make my blood boil.

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TayTay

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Thu Oct-06-05 12:20 PM
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24. Leavitt came in for criticism too!

http://www.hhs.gov/about/bios/dhhssec.html

The comm members really wantd to know when Leavitt was going to come out and oppose the White House on their idiotic 'relief' plans. (Ahm, never.)

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TayTay

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:07 AM
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15. Kerry wasn't there, when I watched.

But the other committee members did do well. Maybe Sen. Kerry was working on a response to *'s speech today.

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:11 AM
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16. That should take him about

5 minutes.

Seriously, the pResident is deranged. He is Baghdad Bob. He's Washington W, totally divorced from reality.

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Mass

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:34 AM
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17. Would it not be nice

Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 11:34 AM by Mass

I am afraid it will not happem, however. Kerry seems to be happy with cryptic remarks like the one he made yesterday. Very frustrating.

Durbin is making a rebuttal just now.

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karynnj

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:28 AM
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10. Snow is incredible

he really thinks the answer is to make the tax cuts permanent.

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:02 AM
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13. Harry Connick

was just great - simple and heartfelt.

I loved the part at the end where he talked about being embarrassed.

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emulatorloo

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:37 AM
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2. just a few seconds - he looks terrible and sounds like he hasn't slept

That was as much as I could handle.

The speech (terror terror terror) sounded just as tired as he looked.

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 09:42 AM
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3. Someone over in GD

called him Baghdad Bush. I think that sums it up pretty well. He's f***ing deranged.

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karynnj

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Thu Oct-06-05 10:19 AM
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6. That's pretty scary actually

We have him for 3 plus more years. How people were unable to see last year is beyond me.

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emulatorloo

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:05 AM
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14. yes, but Kerry was a WINDSURFER!!!!!!!!

and more Americans wanted to invite Bush to a backyard BBQ!

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jillan

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:54 AM
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18. Something tells me that he won't last.

It's just a gut feeling. But with his drinking and his party turning against him, something is going to break.

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jillan

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Thu Oct-06-05 11:55 AM
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19. Anyone watching c-span now?

What the heck does Ted Stevens have on his tie?

Does it say "Hulk"???? Is it Halloween already?

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 12:01 PM
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20. Is he wearing his Hulk tie?

Look what I found:

http://www.nonukesnorth.net/ONeillscolumns.htm

Taz ties and loony tunes

Copyright Dan O'Neill
July 15, 1999, Fairbanks Daily News Miner

A recent news item says that Sen. Ted Stevens wears his Taz tie when he plans to lose his temper on the Senate floor. He wears his Incredible Hulk tie when he aims to throw his considerable weight around Congress. So, one imagines he was wearing his Porky the Pig tie the other day when he visited Ft. Greely and declared the obsolete military post a perfect place to base a bazillion-dollar national missile defense system...

And this: http://www.d-n-i.net/war_profiteering/13boeing.htm

Off the Senate floor, in the storied cloakroom where Robert Taft and Everett Dirksen had long ago perfected the art of the deal, a hearty septuagenarian went quietly to work. Ted Stevens is the senior senator from Alaska and the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee. Slowly, he prowled the room. Rick Santorum, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, turned to Stevens, his fellow Republican. Why couldn't the Air Force keep the 767s, he asked his older colleague, after the lease was up? Stevens, wearing his favorite Incredible Hulk tie, shook his head. "We can't do that," he said. "It will queer the deal." Santorum dropped the question. Stevens moved on. Later that day, appropriators slid five Santorum amendments into the appropriations bill. The amendments added $18 million in defense projects. All were earmarked for Pennsylvania...

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whometense

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Thu Oct-06-05 12:03 PM
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21. One more

http://www.basicint.org/update/WNU041124.htm

Into this multi-faceted struggle between Senate members as well as with the House overall, enter Senator Ted Stevens, the forceful chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Stevens is well-known for holding forth on the Senate floor wearing his Incredible Hulk tie during debates over spending bills, listening to all and yielding to none. His interest in seeing an energy bill completed in 2004 was largely due to the thousands of local and state water projects interspersed throughout the bill, which all members love to tout to their local constituencies and media to show their effectiveness back in Washington, D.C. No energy bill means fewer opportunities for happy holiday stories with the members back in their districts, and he wasn't going to let that happen.

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jillan

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Thu Oct-06-05 12:11 PM
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23. That is too funny!

Can you imagine the other members of the Senate whispering
"uh-oh, here come Ted with his Hulk tie! Maybe we shouldn't invite him to join us for lunch today".

It kind of reminds me of that sign you can put on your dishwasher-
The dishwasher's clean / dirty

Here's your sign!

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jillan

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Thu Oct-06-05 02:45 PM
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25. Anyone listening to Dorgan right now?

I love this guy.
He is on the floor ranting about oil co profits.

Said that Kerry's bill didn't pass yesterday, but it will in the future, it has to.

Wanting to put a tax on profits of gas companies.

Shaming the repukes - for voting along party lines, instead of for what is best for the people. He is really making fun of the repugs.

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