Dems Send the Senate into Closed Session Over Plame Leak

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[LisaFab]

Harry Reid just made a motion, that was seconded, to send the Senate into closeed session.Schumer, Rockefeller and Durbin are before the press asking for a Senate Intelligence investigation into the Plame affair

[NeoCaveman]

Could this be the way they've chosen to fillibuster the Alito nomination? Essentially, they could shut down the Senate indefinitely in order to block Alito.

I think it could be. Someone needs to let Sandra Day O'Connor know she needs to go home to Arizona and not wait all this out.

[Eagle of Liberty]

Is Hillary or Bill in jail yet? No? You better give them some credit. They have moles everywhere.

[TXBubba]

Turbin Durbin saying the pubbies had a chance to stop it before the second was made. He said the dim staff told the pub staff, the pubs did not stop it.

So the Dims are backpedeling already? That didn't take long. Whine: The Pubs didn't stop us. They should have stopped us. End of Whine.

[YaYa123]

gotta hand it to MSNBC. No one else is making the announcemnt about Tom Delay's judge being recused becasue of his contributions to dems and moveon.org.

[queenkathy]

What questions did the reporters ask Durbin?

[olde north church]

It was Durbin who immediately seconded Reid's motion. The republican senator presiding over the senate didn't call for a vote. Maybe on this procedural Rule # 21, it isn't necessary.

Of course Reid and Durbin (and the rest of the dem leadership) planned this stunt to catch Frist unaware.

CNN Bob Franken said the democrats have succeeded in grabbing the headlines away from the President's statement on Avian vaccine.

Piggy Boy Durbin 2nded the motion? He had some self-satisfied little smug smile yesterday on Fox. He should be dragged out of the Senate Chamber by his tie, down the front steps of the Senate and onto the street, have his pants pulled down and sodomized by Iraqi rape room survivor wearing a strap on.

[Stultis]

Durbin says they will shut down the open session every day until they get their way.

Why not give them their investigation? IF the congressional Pubbies can show some aggressiveness it should be simple to show how absurd the notions are that:

1. There was a white house "smear campaign". (What kind of campaign consists of passing comments to only two or three reporters?)
2. That the extravagant liar Joe Wilson is a "whistle-blower".
3. That Valerie Plame, or her husband, was protective of her cover.

In fact it may be that the 'Rats are only clamoring for this investigation on the presumption that Republicans will NOT go along with it. If the Pubbies said, "Sure!" and appeared eager the 'Rats might backpedal.

[cwb]

"YOu got it just right!!!!! The main campaign line of 2006 and 2008 will be democrats saying Bush fooled them into voting for the war by manipulating intelligence."

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They can say that all they want, but the fact still remains that they were making these claims even before Bush was president. Heck, it was only two days after Bush's Inauguration that Clinton's Sec of Defense (Cohen) wrote an op-ed for the NY Times (along with several other columnists other than Miller), warning Bush that Saddam was both rebulding his weapons factories and reconstituting his WMD material. I can't believe they actually think they are going to get away with this when all these quotes and stories are on record.

[AFPhys]

"I don't know when I have been so mad, and I want the Republicans to fight back and beat the living hell out of the Democrats."

My local councilman showed up on my doorstep a week ago to ask for my vote, and to put a sign up. He said, "I remember that you hate all Democrats" ... lol... We hadn't talked very long that day a couple years ago, but it had the right impression.

[pabianice]

Frist on CSPAN Now... this is unpresedented... NEVER BEFORE HAVE I BEEN SLAPPED IN THE FACE WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN THIS SENATE... this is a pure stunt by Durbin and Reid... we have had closed sessions before but never for anything like this... never before to exclude the American public... (he's PISSED)...

[JIM O]

The Dem's may have made it impossible for Libby to get a fair trial

[4integrity]

Well, it's about time Frist got mad. And, it's amazing that Frist is "just" realizing he can't trust Reid!

[workerbee]

Yeah-- Frist says "never has there been such slap in the face in this grand institution" Blah Blah. God bless America, Bill, stop crying, put on your steel toed boots and KICK some Democrap butt!

[justshutupandtakeit]

I take it that you are not aware that judicial review was a standard practice before M v M? It had been done in state courts ala Rutgers v Addington and in the USSC Hylton case (Carriage Tax) both winning sides were argued by Hamilton.

Without judicial review the SC is essentially meaningless since Congress could enact any law it wished without regard for its constitutionality.

[Rutles4Ever]

Excuse me. Desperate House-Knaves.

[Lurking in Kansas]

No TV time is Sen. Reid's idea of free publicity. Idiots!

Exactly, what a moron. No one will be able to see or hear the Dims rants. LOL!

[Eagle of Liberty]

Lott on Hannity now!

[G.Mason]

Not the words of pabianice. He is trying to transcribe what is being said.

I about had a seizure also. ;)

[queenkathy]

You're kidding! Bush could recess appoint Alito

[11th_VA]

DELAY JUDGE RECUSED!!! breaking news on MSNBC Hee hee

explain ???