Secret session was year in the making:(Handful of Dems in on plan that originated w/ Daschle)

Houston Chronicle ^ | 11/5/2005 | CHARLES BABINGTON

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

WASHINGTON - It took Democrats about five seconds to trigger the parliamentary move that forced the Senate into a rare closed session last week, but it was more than a year in the planning.

The final decision to employ the tactic, which infuriated Republicans and exacerbated partisan animosity, was made in the Democratic leader's second-floor Capitol office Monday night, in a small gathering of his lieutenants.

[FreedomPoster]

"There's nothing more poisonous to a democracy than the refusal to listen to facts," Schumer said.

Chuckie, you should know, you've lived it for your entire career, you gun-grabbing hypocrit.

[Semper Paratus]

A year?! LOL!

Can't wait to see what gem they cooked up next.

[mtbopfuyn]

Geez, they did it for the media attention. Big whup. They really need to get over themselves.

[Paladin2]

Give Ried a muffler to hold at each of his press conferences.

[hflynn]

There's nothing more poisonous to a democracy than the refusal to listen to facts," Schumer said

All I can say is shutup and take a deep breath Schumer. By the way breath in Italian is Alito.

[bmwcyle]

ALGORE, "He played on our fears". The DEMS just point the finger while they try pulling the wool over the stupid.

[Travis McGee]

Every time the 'rats to on about this, just read the Rockefeller memo to the media. Every time.

[kellynla]

and what did the 'Rats accomplish?
Nada, nothing, zip, zero!

all these clowns saw the same intel as GWB and they all agreed that Saddam Hussein was a bad actor that needed to be "taken out."

It's all been documented over and over here on FR.

Hussein was removed, WMD was found, elections were held.
Once the Iraqis have control we can pull out.
next case...

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[Boundless]

> Reid obtained an enthusiastic endorsement of the plan
> from Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Not surprising, since it was his plan (and not Daschle's)
according to a leaked memo aired on talk radio this week.

Was any classified info even discussed?

This 15 seconds of fame will likely have material future
costs for the Senate Dems, as their manifest incivility
sinks into sluggish Senate Republican brains.

It seems to have gained the the Dems little. The Legacy
Media press coverage they got, they can always get just
by posturing on the Capitol steps.

[The Electrician]

"There's nothing more poisonous to a democracy than the refusal to listen to facts," Schumer said.

No, Chuckie, there's nothing more poisonous to a democracy than the politicization of national security information, which is the tactic that the Democrats are trying to use for partisan political advantage despite (or because of?) the harm that it will bring to the country.

[Tijeras_Slim]

At this rate they should take back the house, senate, and whitehouse in 2245.

[NickatNite2003]

Well you know that ot wasn't something Reid
came up with, if you pay attention to his body
language as he announced it from the floor...
First off, he had to read it off of a paper...
and he did so, in such a way as to reveal the
fact that they weren't his own words..and he
"punctuated" his remarks with gestures that
were so stiff anf off timing, it made me
think of Al Gore, trying to dance to P-Funk.

It was a planned stunt..political theatre of the
lowest kind.

[bvw]

The Sedition continues. We are at war, many of these once tolerable politcially acts are now crimes of sedition. That's what war means, too.

Our forefathers, and those before them, who established the serious felony of sedition knew that a war must be with all our forces and during war a nation can no longer allow, and must force an aburpt stop to, any and all attempts to disrupt the war effort and/or the government.

[DUMBGRUNT]

"their manifest incivility
sinks into sluggish Senate Republican brains."

We hope!

[CarlEOlsoniii]

Democratic Underground is already soliciting contributions for the 2230 primaries

[js1138]

By next years election, Europe will be in the middle of a civil war, and Iraq will be the last thing on people's minds.

[TheGeezer]

At this rate they should take back the house, senate, and whitehouse in 2245.

Unless the Democat Party and its base get their wish with destruction of our liberties through its new brand of national socialism, alliances with Castro and Chavez, the leadership of certified malicious liar and bigot Al Sharpton and tax-return-dodging adulterer Jesse Jackson, and longings for the days of Jimmy Carter.

They can ascend to power with their trust-fund and Hollywood limousine liberal friends to rule over a peasantry permanently oppressed by PC-speak and everybody-being-Hitler-but-us agitprop.

Until, that is, the Islamofascists move in.

Egad, they are so depressing...

[Bernard]

So when Harry Reid whipped this one out, was that a conventional option or a precedent for a nuclear option?

[cgbg]

By next years election, Europe will be in the middle of a civil war, and Iraq will be the last thing on people's minds.

Correct.

I think the Rats have a secret plan to look as stupid as possible so we won't be ready for their brilliant campaign in the '06 elections when they retake the House and the Senate and then impeach Bush and Cheney and seize the White House. :-)