The most beautiful part of this is that Kerry, never one to shy away from a TV mike, took this on from OUTSIDE the country.
The "real" Democrats -- and you know there are some (I bet Robert Byrd is FURIOUS about this) -- will NEVER forget Kerry did this -- he's DEAD now; they will simply ignore him and he'll die on the vine from lack of attention.
And she was STUPID enough to let some of her staff read DU and took the dang bait!
Friend, we couldn't have written this better ourselves.
If we've been good little boys and girls, this might turn into a "two-fer."
Wasn't he on a ski hill in Switzerland when he made the announcement? I know there was some kind of economic conference he was supposed to be at in Switzerland. What a dork.
Spot on.
Rush talked about it today saying that their editorial calling for a filibuster was equivilant to a red-dye explosive and Kerry bought it hook, line and sinker.
From Switzerland.
I really cracked up tonight listening to Scott McClellan talking about this. He was funny.
Molly Ivins will be happy.
Howlin, did you read Kennedy's blog about this on the Daily Kos?
You know Byrd doesn't like this one bit when lashing out at his own party for sending Mrs. Alito to tears and lashing out at anyone who has been guilty of the charge of politicizing this whole process, all the while quoting directly from the Constitution, and some here were scratching their heads when Byrd supported John Roberts for CJ of the USSC.
His speech on Thursday should have laid to rest all the wonderment and confusion, whether you like the guy or not.
He's disgusted, his constitutents -- most, if not all of them lifelong Democrats -- are disgusted, and the majority of Americans are disgusted about just how far we have come and how low the partisans will go.
Senator Byrd, who I disagree with him 95% of the time, said in less than an hour what I've been thinking of all this process for the last 4 years.
The biggest disappointments I believe are Kent Conrad (D-ND), Max Baucus (D-MT), and Joe Lieberman (D-CT), who don't even have the hearts and minds of their own constituents at hand.
Each one of these, who I would call "saner" Democrats are in the tank with the DUmmies, the MoveOn bozos, and the rest of the leftist kook fringe element in this country.
As for Baucus, my father simply said "That a$$hole".
And from a five-star resort! It just shows how much he really cares for "the little people". LOL!