Wow! Reid and Durbin pull a brilliant stunt on the floor.

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/

Scroll down to the article titled, "Frist Blames Democratic Minority for Do-Nothing Congress, Gets Spanked" and check this out:

"Mr. Durbin: Will the Senator yield for a question?

Mr. Reid: I will be happy to yield for a question.

Mr. Durbin: Can the Senator refresh my memory? Was Mr. Bremmer the recipient of a gold medal or something from the President? Didn't he receive some high decoration or medal for his performance in Iraq?

Mr. Reid: The answer is, yes, he received that. I assume one would expect that from somebody who had a throne while he was over there.

Mr. Durbin: Isn't it also true that George Tenet, who was responsible for the intelligence that was so bad that led us into the war in Iraq, got a medal from the President the same day?

Mr. Reid: That is true.

Mr. Durbin: Did Michael Brown with FEMA receive a gold medal from the White House before he was dismissed?

Mr. Reid: I don't think he did. Even though he was doing a heck of a job, I don't think he obtained a medal from the White House.

Mr. Durbin: Apparently, these gold medals were being awarded for incompetence. They missed Mr. Brown, but they did give one to Mr. Bremmer. Will the Senator yield for another question?"

There's more and it gets better....

Seriously. That last video that came out a few months ago kinda showed that. He still needed to be the admin's scapegoat.

But, he's still a lying scumbag who went on teevee and tried to minimize the fact that there was no FEMA plan for the citizens of New Orleans and that they died as a result. Even Soledad O'Brian, who must have an IQ of at least 50, was outraged and repulsed.

:rofl:

Thanks, I needed that. :applause:

Lying scumbags are GOOD-- you know that.

That's why God made so many. :evilgrin:

Brown's angry, and angry people talk. Every time I see him interviewed, he says a little more about Bush abd none of it is flattering. I wonder if he's doing speaking engagements around the country.

Thats more than you can say about the rest of the administration.

and we know Bush is afraid of horses, so this all makes sense.

But I like it, I like it!

Republicans reward incompetence (pics of medals being handed out). Yadda-yadda.

instead of fliers.

MoveOn to do it though - the Dem leaders are too afraid of being seen as aggressive.

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Bill Frist was sitting at his desk writing something along the lines of "Note to self: do not ... bring ...toothpick ... to a knife fight."

Durbin makes a good straight man. Reid was great delivering the punch line. We should thank Dick Cheney for writing their material.

Mr. Durbin: I am trying to recall the exact number -- it was in the billions of dollars -- that we gave to the President for the reconstruction of Iraq; is that not true?

Mr. Reid: It started out at $18 billion. But as the Senator from Illinois will remember, part of that money, stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills, was used by some of the contractors who were sent over there to play football games -- some of these same people.

Mr. Durbin: It is also true, is it not, that the Democratic policy conference has been holding hearings -- in fact, I think it is the only agency on the Hill holding hearings -- on this waste and abuse, this profiteering and corruption at the expense of American taxpayers and even, equally important -- more importantly -- at the expense of our troops?

Mr. Reid: I say to my friend, this war is approaching 3 1/2 years, and there has not been a single congressional oversight hearing on the conduct of the war. This war has now cost us, the American taxpayers, about $325 billion. There has not been a single congressional oversight hearing on the war.

Mr. Durbin: I ask the Senator from Nevada if he might comment on this as well: Are we not in a situation where the President has told us that he wants to "stay the course'' in Iraq, and Vice President Cheney, when asked a week ago, said he wouldn't change a thing in the way they have done this war in Iraq? Is it very clear that unless there is a change in leadership in this town soon, we are going to continue down this disastrous course, exposing our soldiers to danger every single day, their families to the anxiety of separation, and the taxpayers of this country to billions and billions of dollars more being spent that don't make us any safer?

Mr. Reid: I say to my friend, I spent the weekend reading a book. I did other things. I spent a lot of time on an airplane. The book is called "Fiasco,'' written by a man named Thomas Ricks who has spent his life covering the military. He has written books on the military. I don't know his political persuasion. This book is on the best seller's list of the New York Times.

In this book, he talks in such detail about what has happened as a result of the incompetence of this administration to our valiant fighting men and women over there. I recommend the book to anyone. It is a searing indictment of this administration.

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election fraud possibility on the front page of Dallas News! Woohoo! Too excited to sleep!

But that's not unusual for me. I'm cursed with being a night-owl. I told myself 2 hours ago I was going to go to sleep so that I could to bed "early" for a change. HA!

Anyway, that thread was powerful. I cannot believe the shamelessness of the GOP to blame the do-nothing Congress on the "obstruction" and "road blocking" of Dems. When I read that bullshit it made me want to knock his teeth out.

The Durbin/Reid exchange was encouraging to see. On the other hand, it makes me sick, just sick, to be reminded of all the things they pointed out about this administration. And I desperately wish the average voters would see this kind of stuff, but I know they won't and it's so disappointing.

So I'm not sure if I'm excited or depressed. On that note, I think I will go to bed now.

I'm back here staring at this again!:wow:

Yes, I'm up and at 'em again. My 6 month old even let me sleep in a little this morning so I feel pretty good! But I'm definitely not going to stay up so late tonight (I say that every morning, but I mean it this time!) :P

My eyes feel like two burnt holes in a blanket. Need drops noooooooooooow! :patriot:

Hope JS or KO use it on their shows.

editing a post and it slipped my mind!

Let's keep this kicked to let them know how much we appreciate it when they start mustering some gutso. We need more and more of it from our elected friends!

:spray:This was BRILLIANT!!!!! I'm gonna have to send off a couple of THANK YOU emails to Mr. Durbin and Mr. Reid with just one other sentence "What took you so long??" :woohoo: :woohoo: :rofl:

http://alternet.org/blogs/video/41893/

(A clickable "Cabaret" pic of Liza Minelli and Joel Grey took me directly into the Reid/Durbin duet :) )

Harry Reid sort of reminds me of an older Harry Anderson. Is that weird or what?

Big K&R!

:-)

I better not carry forward with what I want to say about that cat killer *^&*$%#@$%@&)$%#@%(*%$##@@ MF to dare say the Democrats are responsible for a do-nothing congress. Somebody should drag that buzz headed serial degenerate across that aisle and...I better stop.

There is no smilie that can come close to showing what I'm thinking.

:toast:

Thank you, walldude.

:woohoo:

So glad to hear they're fighting back! Meow!

treasury. He spews out right-wing talking points with nothing to back him except the right wing media to report only his side. I applaud Reid and Durbin for standing up and doing their best to restore some truth in Washington.

:bounce: :applause: :kick:

That video should be aired on every news program that hits the airwaves, and the audio should run on radio!

:thumbsup:

:applause: :woohoo:

I'm spreading this one everywhere I can--way to go!!!

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http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/41893

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Hello?

:)

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Great punch line! I won't spoil it.

:evilgrin: :kick:

it was a tag team frame beat down of Frist.

I hope more Dem senators were paying attention.

war crimes and what sort of Congressional legislation would be used to cover your ass for that sort of thing, i.e., the sort of bill that's about to come down the pike. Dems should fight what's happening, but always in the frame of Iraq and the ongoing train wreck that's happening there, IMO.