Posted on 12/18/2009 5:08:04 PM PST by maggief
Supposedly he’s in Connecticut for the Jewish sabbath, but come on. We all know he’s in Barbados. Laughing his ass off.
Already, they’ve wheeled in the cots for members and staff who choose to slumber party the night away in the Capitol, or Senate offices. But tomorrow, bright and early, all of them could need to be on hand for procedural reasons. For instance, Democrats expect to have to waive a budget point of order they expect Republicans to raise against the defense appropriations bill. That requires 60 votes…
“After being assured by Democratic and Republican leaders that his vote was not needed to pass the Defense Appropriations bill, Senator Lieberman went to Connecticut to spend the Sabbath and the last night of Hanukkah with his wife, Hadassah, and their children and grandchildren,” reads a statement to TPMDC from Lieberman’s spokesman Marshall Wittmann.
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That means Democrats will be relying on at least one Republican to help them get the defense bill over a procedural bump in order to push them back on to health care. They’re crossing their fingers.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Let’s hope he can’t get back. Up to 20 in of snow expected and in DC that puts everything at a standstill
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50 Million People in Path of Winter Storm
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http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/delta-cancels-flights-to-dc-airports-121809
Delta Cancels All Flights to DC
Storm causes airline to suspend service until Sun.
Two words.......Al Franken
Is that a real graphic, or did you make that? Up to 25”. That’s some serious snow, especially for DC.
God has a sense of humor alright!
Great point. This would be the ultimate middle-finger from Lieberman to Franken. Man, would that be sweet.
The funniest thing I heard on the radio this afternoon coming home is that the Senate has a “fleet” of gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive vehicles to move them all around and fetch them for a vote. I hope they all get stuck in DC’s notoriously ineffective snow removal system.
DC will be paralyzed for the weekend.
God does indeed have a sense of humor!
Are you kidding? 1 inch of snow puts everything at a standstill.
Let IT snow.
*sigh*
That is exactly what it is.
He probably figures that Franken got approval to pull his stunt and they could blame it on newbie fire catcher Franken.
Payback is a medevac lol.
Senator Lieberman flashing his Joe-nads to the Majority Leader?
The Irony.
I love it.
Lieberman’s an old fox. A liberal fox yes, but he’s been around a long time.
I wonder if Senator Clown from MN is smart enough to regret his words yet.
“gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive vehicles” Pffft ...
RV’s!!! LOL
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD9CM1N100
At a news conference with McConnell, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., taunted Democrats in terms that recalled Obama’s campaign promise of “change we can believe in.”
The health care bill, he said, “isn’t change you can believe in; it’s change that’s astonishing. We all know that promises are made in political campaigns, but this is a complete reversal — there is no change. This is business as usual.”
“Tomorrow, there’s going to be a snowstorm, and we’ll be coming in RVs and everything will be paralyzed as our nation’s capital always is when there’s a snowstorm.”
McCain added, “But the fact is that there’s a firestorm out there in America. That firestorm says stop this. Stop this.”
The weather outside is frightful,
But the fire is so delightful,
And as long as we’ve no place to go,
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
~~The U.S. Senate
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