Posts for July 13, 2007
Still Here!
friday, survivor edition.
We asked you to create the best hooker name using two pols' names. We take no credit for these. You said: Goode Sessions; Buyer Weiner; Costa Lott; Issa Foxx; Rangel Dicks; Harry Boehner; Weiner Sessions; Nita Dicks; Nita Johnson; Holden Weiner; Costa Dicks; Harry Weiner; Tanner Hyde; Issa Boehner; Boehner Bayh; Weiner Bayh; Goode Bayh; Bayh Moore; Goode Pryce; Mary Johnson; Mary Cochran; Patty Reid; Harry Reed; Issa Cummings; Harry Reid; Wu Young Dicks; Frank Johnson; Dick Bond; Loretta Sanchez; Payne Sessions; Otter Heineman; Johnson Hunter; Dicks Granger; Candy Dicks; Cox Polk; Buck Traficant; Moore Johnson; Rep. Faleomavaega and just about any Johnson; Costa Fortuño; Dingell Berry; Fattah Dicks; Spitzer Cummings; Norm Dicks; Fattah Johnson; Phil Akaka; Kind Dicks; Pryor Farr; Rove Foxx; Chuck Bonjean; Akin Cheeks; Chaka Goode; Kennedy Whitehouse; Vitter Sessions; and "anything with Loebsack."
whoa, guessmyvote.com is totally rockin.
i would send some of these to vitter's office, but they're pretty expensive.
So Lugar and Warner want Bush to seek a new authorization and come up for a new plan by mid-October. Isn't that just a poorman's Byrd/Clinton?
this is really great.
no, that article is totally worth revisiting. fucking douchebags.
Welcome to yesterday
that LNS article is great!
Blunt hasn't been doing his job. CD: "A familiar House Republican complaint about Minority Whip Blunt is being heard again -- that he doesn't whip enough votes. "The real interesting question to put to them is, are you whipping anything?" said one top Republican Conference insider. "I don't think he's whipped anything." Several Republican and senior aides in leadership and among rank-and-file said the issue dates to the former GOP majority...Critics still contend that Blunt's failure to whip smaller but still potentially politically damaging bills undermines party efforts to present a united front. On some of the bigger votes, such as the budget and Iraq war supplemental, Minority Leader Boehner's office has a hands-on approach gauging member support. One example cited was the May vote on a Democratic-authored bill on gasoline price gouging, on which 56 Republicans joined all but one Democrat in backing the legislation."
Yup, he'll be back on Tuesday for roll call votes.
DeMint, who has been emailing with Vitter, says Vitter will be back next week. People should mail diapers to his office.
what is the best Senate reception of the year?
thanks for the internet radio infos!
it never gets old.
Did he cry when he said this?
At a press conference this morning, House GOP Leader John Boehner of
West Chester acknowledged calling a group of Republican senators who
want to withdraw troops from Iraq "wimps" earlier this week during a
closed meeting of House Republicans.
Roll Call, April 30: "Although the party has been remarkably cohesive in opposing the Democratic drive for a timline for withdrawal, that doesn't mean they are willing to go along indefinitely.
Glichrest predicted that unless the situation on the ground improves significantly in the next few months, the number of Republicans like Emerson willing to stray from the party line will grow significantly.
"They are going to start popping off," he said. "I think by midsummer we could see that happening, breaking the logjam."
On April 25, 2 Republicans voted with the Democrats for withdrawal. Last night, there were 4. Not a huge groundswell of defections.
don't they have smarttrip only lines in va?
Yes. In Fairfax.
who'd you trade?
they already have member/staff only lines in longworth.. what else do you want?
Republicans voting for withdrawal: Wyne Gilchrest, Walter Jones, Jo Ann Emerson, John "Jimmy" Duncan
Democrats voting against withdrawal: John Barrow, Dan Boren, Chris Carney, Brad Ellsworth, Tim Holden, Jim Marshll, Jim Matheson, Vic Snyder, Gene Taylor, and Dennis Kucinich
Pelosi and Boehner should be allowed to trade Members.
don't they have smarttrip only lines in va?
Bill Nelson >> Mel Martinez
A temporary compromise has been reached on Internet radio. SoundExchange won't start collecting the new royalties on Sunday. They're going to wait until the negotiations have played out.
well, sure. i wouldn't say dislike, but i don't like them. they're all just pretty lame. they lack a sense of humor.
Bill Nelson > Mel Martinez
any one really dislike their coworkers?
Does that make you feel good?
Can we please have smarttrip only gates at the metro stations already? Co-sign
Can we please have smarttrip only gates at the metro stations already?
Yesterday I was at the Cannon Carryout, and the intern in front of me paid the cashier for her coffee with pennies. She said "I swear there are 85 of them." I laughed in her face.
no votes in the House. Its Friday. Gandels has sandwiches. The Perfect Storm. (of awesomeness)
any free food to be had anywhere on the hill?
why did Bunning oppose raising the bounty on bin Laden?
insterting: The bipartisan group of 13 senators supporting Salazar/Alexander "is reminiscent of the Gang of 14 senator who came together in 2005 to avert a constitutional showdown over judicial nominations. Several senator suggested the new group could find a bipartisan compromise on the divisive issue of war policy." Salazar/Alexander = new Gang of 14.
senate
levin/reed will be voted on on Monday. Nope, no roll call votes on Monday.
WALNUTS!
Lets see if they can count all the votes first; then decide who took an election from whom
lets
levin/reed will be voted on on Monday.
Is Nader going to mess up the election for Barry Obama or will it be Bloomberg?
nader was doing one of those intern lectures; one of our's went and said it was good
wohoo! also, that looks like my cat.
Hey! We're famous!; (sort of, in an internet way)
Jay Leno, on McCain's Florida co-chair offering sex to an undercover cop for $20: "How broke is the McCain camp?"
That's where Vitter stashes his huggies.
Dorgan amendments passes: 87 Ayes, 1 Nay. Bunning was the only one to vote Nay.
are you talking about the cozy little offices each senator has below the capitol? those hideaways awesome.
Who wants to go to a hideaway?
"Certainly all the intercourse I had as a military officer was the best." -- Bill Nelson, 10:16, on the floor.
When are they voting on Levin/Reed?
bill nelson will support levin/reed. ben nelson won't.
indeed.
1984 is an appropriate literary reference to what is happening politically in this country.
to the poster below and the others who have shared their sentiments about what the president/vp and even congress have done...you're not alone. I thought i was going nuts when i was freaking out about the destruction of basic principles of democracy by the prez/others and no one else seemed bothered by what was going on. People look at you like you've grown a second head when you bring up the issues you raised even though EVERYONE should be in the streets over these issues. I don't care if you're a liberal or a conservative, suspension of habeas corpus and denial of council are dangerous to us all. We are all going to be be sorry we allowed this erosion of our fundamental values.
we're ALL members of the inner party.... ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebop5NEHVeU
"It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist. The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the declared ones: but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of doublethink. Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world."
10:36, I share your concerns.
Poster below. Abolutely correct... we're witnessing an Americal polity that tests the limis of our Constitution. It's all spurred by Dick Cheney's long held beleif in the Supreme Executive. As a staffer of three years I have no frame of reference for what it was like pre-Bush, but I'd imagine short of Nixon (and yes, Nixon is an appropriate parallel). But when you speak to people who've been on the hill for 8 and 13 years, they'll tell you things have never been more dark.
apparently coleman loves country music and free speech.
How many here have served -- even if it was in (relative) peacetime? My unit was ready to defend Norway and organize the Partisans in case the USSR attacked. As you can see today, the freedom-loving Norwegians are not enslaved by the Soviet Bear.
Craig is an Ass
"We are all Nintendo warriors today." --Larry Craig on the Senate floor. What?
where, when and why is Nader speaking?
Welcome to the new majority...not as lazy as the last majority
9:30 votes on a Friday? Yikes.
I absolutely agree with that post below. Hear, hear!
nothing will happen to miers. by the time all the legal proceedings work their way through the courts, Bush will no longer be in office and no will care.
wow. best post on this site thus far.
Lighten Up, Francis
