[Howlin]

Please report any and all news reports that you hear or read about this on this thread!!!

[netmilsmom]

bttt.
Got to give the kiddies showers before I can check back.
I mean it.

[TomGuy]

There is an ongoing thread already here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1019988/posts?page=1

[Howlin]

******This is the LIVE THREAD PING LIST; if you want ON or OFF this ping list, please Freepmail me.*****

[EllaMinnow]

Long time no see! Perfect timing!

[prairiebreeze]

Good evening and thanks for the thread Howlin. Bump for later checking

Prairie

[Oldeconomybuyer]

fil·i·bus·ter    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (fl-bstr)
n.

1.  
   1. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action.
   2. An instance of the use of this delaying tactic.

[MinuteGal]

Hi, Howlin.....happy to see you're right on the ball as usual. Have my threefer.....computer mouse, popcorn and TV.....ready to go for the duration tonight.

Ladies and germs, start your engines!

Leni

[Carolinamom]

Checking in......glad you're back! Think we can last the whole 30 hours? LOL

[TomGuy]

I want 2 more hours.
Just 2 hours. 2 hours. 2 hours.
2 hours. 2 hours. 2 hours...

[putupon]

Just heard Frist on Hannity, he said they were pumped.

Go GOP Senators!

Do something (for a change.)

[McGavin999]

Oh good, are we going to have to listen to 30 hours of phone book readings? I hope they use this time to actually say something that matters. It's the perfect opportunity to list out the accomplishments and the vision for the future. If they have to talk that long, let them please make sense of it.

[isthisnickcool]

Robert Byrd droning on and one through his sweaty little thin KKK lips. Hey maybe he will say Ni$$er again.

[yonif]

This is going to be great entertainment!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

..Can't wait to hear Sen. Byrds comments on Justice Brown...

[Allegra]

I'm looking forward to the wee hours when people start to feel sleep-deprivation. The Dems ought to be particularly nasty by then...

[Reagan is King]

The Dems better enjoy their little power trip now because after the 2004 elections they won't have much power left.

[Allegra]

Brit Hume on Fox News about to dive in to it.

[LS]

I haven't followed this as closely as I should---are the Republicans trying to force the Dems to conduct a REAL filibuster?

[TomGuy]

It's awwwwwwnnnnnn!

[Neets]

are they really going to go for 30 hours?

[ILBBACH]

Okay, I'm a dumbs**t...

How is the filibuster going to work? Does ONE person have to keep talking, can they pass from one to the next?

Can someone fill me in on the rules?

(Really I'm not as dumb as I post.)

[yonif]

Can someone explain to me how exactly a fillibuster works? I am aware it just eats up time, etc. , but how does it go about?

[GOPrincess]

Thanks so much for the ping, was hoping to find it here when I got home! :)

[snopercod]

Howlin darling, you're a little late. This other "live thread" has been up since early this AM.

My recommendation is to direct everybody over to this thread:

"The 30hr Senate Debate" --- (Live Thread)

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks Howlin for the thread and ping.

Turn it on, and what greets me??? Ol' Sheet, aka, Shake n'Bake Byrd!

[deport]

Who's a filibustering?

Welcome back............

[deport]

We have a front blowing in this evening...... Must be all that hot air the D.C. governing group is stirring up....

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Isnt it nice for BYRD to OBSTRUCT in his words the talkathon !!

[AdamSelene235]

Thursday's GAO and SEC testimony on the GSEs has been canceled due to the fillibuster. These people are clowns.

[Capitalism2003]

Why isn't anyone making a deal about the fact that this type of filibuster is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!!!!???

NEVER in the history of the country...NEVER in more than two centuries of American government, has a federal judicial nominee been DENIED a vote...NEVER! The dems are so desperate for power, they are willing to walk all over the Constitution to get it.

[rs79bm]

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[FreeTheHostages]

Well, here's my report: I've got a pass into the Senate gallery and we're going to go tonight and see it first hand!! Cool, huh?

[gov_bean_ counter]

You just did this to set a new thread record...

[Bob J]

Weird. I cleared my cookies and was able to vote again....

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Off topic.  See #114 on the following thread:

Fox News: CONFIRMATION Al Qaeda Is Operating In Iraq
 

[ranair34]

Give'em hell !!!!!!!!

[LayoutGuru2]

Oh, the horror!!!

[yonif]

Does this mean that at 3-4 in the morning there will be someone talking on the floor?

[wardaddy]

Have we won yet?

lol...

is anyone covering these besides Ailes?


fingers crossed.

[solo gringo]

Wouldn't it be great if Bill Frist announce at the end of this session.That they were going back to back with another session this one has been so much fun

[Dante3]

bttt

[Salvation]

Thanks for the thread, Howlin!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Frist Poll Here

[rwfromkansas]

thanks to anniegetyourgun:

Allow me to supply a little additional info here. Best to use these on the day of the blitz.

Majority Senate Judiciary room phone: 1-202-224-5225 or fax at 1-202-224-9102

Minority Senate Judiciary room phone: 1-202-224-7703 or fax at 1-202-224-9516

Thanks to Doctor Raoul:

Call Democrat Cloakroom 202-224-4691

We need the GOP cloakroom to tell them to bring up the past hypocritical quotes from Dems!

[Freemeorkillme]

go vote. Our hold is slipping.

http://frist.senate.gov/

Hint: clear cookies after vote and....

[slim mackerel]

Hey man, if these conservative judges get in, who's gonna
make sure mexicans get free medical care? Help people who can't read get into medical school? Who's gonna protect the right of a mother to suck the brains out of her newborn's skull? Huh? Have you thought about that you people?!?!?!?

[rwfromkansas]

We need to flood the GOP cloakroom with support. You are more likely to get through to this number and can also get directly to people involved in the talkathon and tell them to have people read Miller's book or past Dem hypocritical statements saying they just wanted us to allow a vote etc.

202-224-6191 (Republican Cloakroom)
202-224-8601 (Republican Cloakroom recording)
202-225-4691 (Democratic Cloakroom)
202-224-8541 (Democratic Cloakroom recording)

[rs79bm]

One of our greatest Senators now speaking:

[TomGuy]

By the time the major media spin this 30-hour marathon, it will make the Republicans look like a bunch of whiners.

The Dems will come out of this smelling like roses by continuing to rant that the important work of the Senate-- jobs/prescription drugs/appropriations/etc -- is not being done because the Republicans are doing this silly talkathon circus.

This 30 hour marathon was not one of Frist's better ideas.

[mysonsfuture]

The real question here is how will the vote to amend the senate rules turn out on Friday!! Will someone please discuss the vote count on this. My understanding is that we need 50 votes (including Cheney). We have Zell and will likely lose Chaffee and Collins. CLOSE! Any thoughts gang?