Frist looks shell shocked.
Lott seems in control.
Posted on 11/01/2005 11:40:50 AM PST by 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
what?!! Iweren't they parading before the press every details of the plame affair? if they're doing this now it can only mean one thing: it stinks and and the manure s about to hit the real fan... the lib fan
...(LOTT)... I don't know the intent of this... takes us away from Senate business... s real slap in the face... 9HEY! MAYBE THE SENATE REPUBS ARE FINALLY GETTING IT@!) ... WAS CLEARLY REHEARSED... (ANOTHER SENATOR)... this is keeping us from Senate business... this seems to be about settling an old score about intelligence that the Dems used politically... more...
Wait a minute! this Wilson /Pflame leak thing did not concern going to war. It happened in the summer of 2004 and was about the presidential election.
the dems invoked the rule properly... but they are stupid... the public ie you and i can't know what's its about only about the motion and comments outside the room
Ditto. He has been way too polite with the Dims. I only wish we had a Senate leader like the Hammer in the house. Could you imagine DeLay as Senate leader? He'd be mopping the floor with the Dims about now.
How many of the Secret Sessions were held to advocate the overthrow of an elected President during a war?
Is it possible for the pubs to conduct business without dems? Do we really need them for anything? Don't we have the majority?
FNC had it
MSNBC anchorette said "there will be a new judge in the Delay trial". more after commercial.
this is a huge defeat for Ronnie Earl!!
they can't by rule... ain't that ashame
But I don't understand how it could work. Each person who was forced to leave their position, would be replaced by someone else. (Frist &/or Delay would be replaced, and their replacement would be next in line.) Unless there was some huge empeachment of all republicans in the line succession all on one day, I don't understand how your theory is possible.
Maybe Frist did allow it on purpose to give the Republicans the talking points that the Dems are stopping the business of the country trying to settle politcal scores.
That special power has been construed by many presidents to extend to vacancies in the Supreme Court. The first recess appointment to the court occurred in 1795 when President Washington appointed John Rutledge chief justice while the Senate was in recess. Since then, 11 Supreme Court justices have been put on the bench in the same way—including Chief Justice Earl Warren, who was appointed by President Eisenhower in 1953.
Frist looks shell shocked.
Lott seems in control.
What happened...???
Maybe everyone in Congress should just indict everyone else and make it a big party.
That was a great post.
...(MORE)... this is in no way something that has to be done at this time in this way...(he's pissed, too)... has to do more with settling a score than anything else... (another senator)... shows to what lengths Dems will go to keep from cutting their budget... this is purely political, settling a score from 2004 elections... Dems can't move on but have to settle a score... Dems just show obstructionism...more...
The Dems have angered Lott. Bad move. Lott may not be my fav guy, but he doesn't stand for this kind of move.
Lott now on hannity unmasking them.
Dems running across Texas lines over redistricting. Trying to convict people for being Republicans. now shutting down the Senate because we didn't elect them. Hey DIMWITS! This is why you aren't in charge!
The Alito nomination revived my spirits, this stunt has just confirmed I'm going to do my best to elect every Republican no matter how I feel about them to the U.S. Senate. Dems want to play this game? Prepare to have an ever shrinking minority!
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