I don't know, I think I need a virtual drinking game today

Since I don't actually drink more than 2 or 3 times a year, it will have to be a virtual drinking game. The Senate debate today should be just awful. Allen, Sessions, Allard, Inhofe and others are just going to tee off on the 'cut and run' lie in the Senate today. Sigh!

I think I will keep a tab today and 'drink' everytime a Rethug takes a swipe at the Kerry Amendment or at Sen. Kerry. I should be 'virtually' reeling by around 1:00 pm today.

Sigh! It's shitstorm day in the Senate.

because he dared to take a principled stand that they were afraid of.

sadder is if all the pundits bemoaning how weak the Democrats are and how they never take principled stands pile on.

The good news is that we've actually seen Kerry's rebuttal since April 22 - he was absolutely clear that he could not be one of those who stays quiet when the policy is wrong. It is unbelievably strange that the 2004 candidate may be a populist protest leader moving public opinion. I wonder if the MSM will ever accept, even if not publicly, their guilt in coverage of 2004.

Don't miss this article by Eric Boehlert in the Washington Monthly on The Note: Shill Wind.

hope for the large majority.

I saw Sen. Reid on the floor last night and he would only barely acknowledge Sen. Kerry. (And KErry was on the floor at the time.) Gawd, how awful when a principled stand gets attacked because it is just an inconvenient principle at this time.

both party leaders.

Democratic fissures in Senate's Iraq debate
Competing proposals pit party leaders Reid and Kerry

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13456702/

Is this possibly a tug of war between the roots and the DLC for party direction? If it is, I wish there was some way to compromise. The DLC just wants total control. Still, I fully support Kerry and believe at some point he will be vindicated. The others, I have lost some respect for, not because they don't agree with Kerry's plan,but because of the treatment.

It does give Kerry and Feingold respect and mention that their efforts preceded Reid's.

and balanced.

but I need a real drinking game. And I hardly ever drink, either.

I don't know who I hate more today, Sessions (whose every word I can predict before it exits his mouth) or the smarmy, unctuous and self-promoting Joe Biden.

I think it might be a boon to mankind if I drank today.

Barring that, I'll be hitting the Calms Forte. HARD.



BTW, anyone else having trouble with the c-span feed? Mine keeps cutting out. That may be a good thing, in the non-exploding head sense.

works fine

but it's ok now.

Now I just wish I wasn't able to hear what I'm hearing. John Warner? He may be a gentleman, but he's full of shit.

say it right back at them.

LIE AND DIE COURSE IS NO PLAN!

CHANGE AND SUCCEED IS!

keep my head from exploding.

What the hell is going on? It must be the summer heat frying the already overheated rethug brains in congress. Give 'em some koolaid, for pete's sake! :beer:

Shorter Warner: We have to keep US soldiers in harm's way to justify the deaths of the other 2500+ soldiers.

Nice reasoning. :sarcasm:

War is no reason for it's own perpetuation.

Sigh!

Warner is also using the two soldiers who were captured, tortured and murdered to justify keeping troops there. How disgusting. He is also playing the patriot card. How predictable.

Warner is now speaking. He is saying that the Reid one has a timeline - because it calls on Bush to develop one by the end of 2006. Warner is crazy he just said we are building a magnificent country that will be the envy of the area. He also said they have sovereinty for the first time in a very very long time. (Uhm ... since we invaded.) He also said that rather than a timeline for our military we need a time table for the Iraqis to get their country together, (Can he read? What did he think Kerry was speaking about?)

But we can't leave because we have the momentum:

- we killed Zarqarwi - (which Murtha and Kerry both pointed out was still the type of thing we could do when out of there.

- Bush met with Malecki - such an accomplishment

- more Al Qaeda raids - still could be done


He also seems to think that the President as CIC has sole responsibility and the military counsels them. He says one of Levin's paragraphs USURPTs some of the CIC's power.

attacks on Kerry.

beastiality into a floor debate