***Official Senate Filibuster Thread #16***

Thought the roll call would be a good time to start a new thread.

Thread #15 here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1365016

carry in a uncooperative Republic feet first!!

Love the Mom in Tennis Shoes!

she is practical and no nonsense.

get personal emails from Patty, which I really appreciate. She pays attention to her constituents, no doubt!

are here in Cali. I love me some Babs.

It was PERFECT!
Of note: She claimed that she refused to listen to folks who claimed that bush went into Iraq for the oil. She says she is paying close attention to the Iraqi Oil contract which the bush admin is trying to get the Iraqi government to sign. In it 17% of the existing oil fields will get managed by Iraq, the rest, 83% PLUS any new oil finds are to be managed by BIG OIL. This, she claims, sends the signal to people that America is trying to give Iraqi Oil away! She is working with Senator Biden to pass a resolution for bush to sign that states: America has no interest in managing Iraqi Oil. We are ONLY interested in protecting this valuable resource for the Iraqi citizens. (Not her exact words but you get the idea).

I found Senator Cantwell to be eloquent yet to the point. I wrote her an e-mail directly after she yielded the microphone to the next Senator. I have never been a fan of hers until tonight. Now I am VERY proud of her. Did you know she has worked with our Representative Jim McDermott on the Depleted Uranium issue? He is my fave of all of them from our state, and he supports Dennis Kucinich's HR Bill 333 calling for the cheney impeachment!

As far as Senator Murray, I have shown her my support ever since she was that "Young Senator In Tennis Shoes" I love what she does for the veterans here in our state, I share her concerns for our ports. That said, lately she has been a bit disappointing. She and Jay Inslee took it upon themselves to squash a peoples movement for impeachment down in Olympia a couple of months back. When I wrote her about this, she responded with a reply which started, "Two Words: President Cheney..." (Yes I get those same weekly updates and sometimes a bit more.) Senator Murray also voted WITH THE REPUKES on legislation against Americans being able to purchase legal prescription medication from outside our boarders. I and a few other fellow DUers here felt quite embarrassed by that one. Lately though,(this week), Senator Murray has been warming to the notion of "accountability" and she has also expressed her anger over the Scooter Libby Amnesty. This is encouraging. If you like, I can forward both of those form letters to you or link 'em here tomorrow.
Also, I do not know if this means anything, but, Microsoft has donated $$ to Republicans over the last 6 years and little to Democrats. Senator Murray got a nice chunk of change from them this time around for the first time in her career...Well that's from what I can tell, I am NOT a political investigator but I can likely track that link for you too if you want it.

No wonder it takes so long to get anything done.


ooops wrong location :blush:

Is it like, if there's not enough for a quarum the filibuster ends and we can proceed to a vote? Is that why the Repigs have to scurry back from the cracks and crevices where they run and hide?

a sentence together.

for this early hour. I am punchy right now but I just downed another Coke.

I don't DARE touch a drop of caffeine right now! I have to get some sleep some time!

:shrug: eh?

How did you know what I was thinking?

;)

cab money.

And funnier than shit! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

;)

Can't download the image,lol.

like the playground game "red light, green light" where they all storm the podium at least would make for interesting TV.

running with the boa that bluebear pointed out earlier?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

would come flying off the heads of all of the Republics when they heard "red light!"

hehehehe

Hairpieces flying all over da place! :rofl:

yeppers that would be a picture worth the price of admission.

:spray:

that's one of the funniest comments this morning!!! hehehehe

:blush:

Take these broken wings...

Hearing this makes me think of that group. ;)

Doctor Doctor
Gimme the news
I gotta bad case
Of Loving you!


Earworm hell!!!!!

Will kill any earworm, and replace it with another!

:rofl:

Smile. Oh, won't you smile a while for me.

Sara. Oooooo...

:rofl:

put out a trail of peanuts to make sure they get back to chambers in time to vote right? ;)

:spray:

He must be chafing a bit.

:rofl:

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:puke:

They're not really doing anything else. Then the panel could critique her wardrobe selection before the debate starts back up.

:rofl:

I'm been trying for hours to catch up with the comments in the earliest threads, while new threads in the series keep popping up, in the continuing saga. I'd like to read the whole thing in chronological order. I came to it late, and I don't have TV. And, let me tell you, reading DU threads is just like being there, only better! But Thread 8 failed to post the url for Thread 7--I was following the thing backwards, but got blocked--and so I've been running all over looking for Thread 7 and the earlier ones.

Did anyone keep the early ones bookmarked? Thread 1 would be sufficient. (It will ref Thread 2, etc.)

Thanks!

I would recommend you do a search for "Official Senate Filibuster Thread" and I'm sure you will find them all.

before. Talk about blind as a bat.

And to my embarassment, initially read your thread title as "blond as a bat". :blush:

I have been here since around midnight pacific time but if someone has them maybe they can post them for you.

thread when necessary?

Thanks!

for you if you want...

I'm not sure when I will head to bed, but it will probably be soon.

and I will stay and keep it up until the next DUer wants to take over. :)

You've done great!

:hi:

He seems fresh. I wonder if he got some sleep last night and got up early for this.

It's been fun hanging with y'all!

:hi:

:hi:

:rofl:

:hi:

Almost anything can be improved with either beer or gravy.

Eggs, some kinda pork, home made biscuits, fried potatoes, gravy - yummy! That tradition is one reason why we hillbillies are some of the fattest people on the planet. That's one reason the tradition is fading. Don't like being an oinker.

taking a bite of some mashed potatoes with gravy. "Ahhh! Better. Now back to Iraq..."

experience with war, instead of a bunch of Republic chicken hawks.

Well, that's what the Pukes tell me, anyway. :eyes:

He bribed the VC to fire rubber bullets at him.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

After all he was running against Junior. You know, the one whose daddy got him a cushy job in the TANG so he didn't have to serve like the common folks did. And then went AWOL even from that.

And, an American population who thinks that Big Brother and Survivor and the like is "reality TV".

Dan Rather's memo was "forged" because it was a copy of the original memo. :crazy:

And partly because repuke voters are raving idiots.

The corporate news media was complicit. OK I'm preaching to the choir.

Sometimes I think they believe that if a nuclear war happened, or of we had another attack like 9/11, THEY would be spared, because they have their heads up Bush's ass.

Dumb, stupid, idioic!

What...is the capital of Assyria?!

no seriously just six more months. Really, we are sure this time, six more months...

Look over here at this shiny object... :crazy:

be dead by that six month "deadline".

:cry: :cry: :cry:

Doesn't he know he's supposed to speak in jingoistic slogans?

All this logic and facts and analysis is BORING.

:shrug:

as we see-saw between rational talk and just plain freaky jingoism.

Republics with their fingers in their ears going, "LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA" :eyes:

makes you even sicker in your heart every time he speaks and we're reminded what could have been.

everytime I think about Florida 2000 but you are right it is a crying shame.

if only...

I can never get over the fact that Americans did not elect him President in 2004 and chose Bush instead.

elections at the state and county levels where they dominated the voting process in the years before the election, during the voting, and during the vote counting process.

DNC was never serious about countering GOP election fraud in 2002 and 2004 even after the hearings on 2000s election fraud gave them the blueprint they needed to tackle many of the problems.

I HATE INHOFE!!! :puke:

ack...

Kerry is making him look like the windbag nutjob he is! .... speaking of the 2 should be presidents

"I will tell you, I've heard from 4 star generals that we ran a risk averse campaign in Afghanistan."

:woohoo:

we outsourced the job to Afghan warlords who were fighting against us one week earlier.

Why should they have risked their lives killing people who were their pals?

Let bin Laden and all of his most hardcore supporters get away because Junior and Lord Vader were obsessing about Iraq.

to hold Bush accountable and instead treated Kerry as if he was lying about it. And none of the big name Democrats (like those running for president now) would back him up on this - they sided with Bush when they stayed silent, even as they knew Kerry was telling the truth and it was Bush lying about Tora Bora.

Need to go to bed soon.

Please provide a link to thread #16 when you start the new thread.

And thanks again for volunteering to take over!

Edited to add: A good time would be when Kerry finishes talking.

And, goodnight everyone!

;)

:hi:

:yourock: