[DainBramage]

I hope he wears that cool squirrel wig.

[facedown]

Under House rules, Traficant will have 30 minutes to address his colleagues before any expulsion vote.

Now this is must see TV!

[bybybill]

Well, good on you Rush, if Trafficant does it, what a hoot. The House will probably meet at 2am on a Sat. morning to have this vote.

[mc5cents]

"He's promised one hell of a show on the floor of the House," said Limbaugh. "And what he's done so far probably is nothing compared to what he's going to do."

I hope you're right Rush. I just hope that Traficant shows up sober. He sounded drunk before the committee the other day. I think he might be in deep depression. I just hope he can pull himself together to put on that "show" for the congress.

[Vidalia]

...OOOH YES! OOOH! OOOH! YES! YES! YES! DO IT SOME MORE! PLEASE, JIM! DO IT SOME MORE!

All the names of the guilty parties will not be excluded from the next "House-Demagasm"...

[NormsRevenge]

Go Out in a BlaZe of GloRy JimBoy !!! Take as many with U as U can, Please!! Do it for the children.

[jackbill]

Unfortunately, I doubt that Traficante has any "goods" on other Congressmen/women. The best that he could do, as far as I am concerned, is to highlight the fact that "the other body" is going to hold the Torricelli Ethics Committee hearings in SECRET.

[BIGZ]

Shades of Mr. v. Foster. Can they afford it.

[Brad C.]

He might have 30 minutes under the house rules, but is there any rule that says the speech must be broadcast? Is there also a rule as to whether the speech becomes part of the congressional record? Is there a rule that says other members must attend, or is there a chance Jim will be speaking to an empty floor? Wouldn't that be something if daschle could keep every democrat out of the house for just that one day.
Jim will be painted to look like he is crying over spilled milk. It is truly sad that he didn't step forward before he was even charged. The time to root out corruption is when you find it.

[Torie]

I've totally soured on political radio talk show hosts except for Michael Medved. Most of these guys are rather ignorant irresponsible entertainers. Limbaugh's igorance on most subjects is enough to get me to want to scream out expletives from my car window.

[Diddle E. Squat]

It won't happen. Backroom deals going on right now, the Dems agree to vote against expulsion('cause they are so kind, dontcha know), and Traff agrees not to sing.

[Jhoffa_]

Unfortunately, Traficant has mostly destroyed his own credibility..

And I think he's got some dirty laundry of his own to worry about.

(could be tied to the mob and involved in murder.)

[Blue Screen of Death]

The networks will report it.... "Today Jim Traficant WHO USUALLY VOTES WITH CONSERVATIVES addressed the whole house prior to his expulsion. Whle he addressed several issues, he did not discuss the double dealing stock manipulating profit stealing situation that President Bush and Vice President Chenny are trying to cover up. He also failed to address Bushes total disreguard for human life as demonstrated by his drunk driving that he tried to keep from the public. Mr. Trafficant could have addressed the total lack remorse Mr. Bush has shown for all of the black people who have been dragged to death behind pickups driven by white people who are probably conservative."

[cake_crumb]

How about THESE immortal words:

"We must be stupid. Ronald Reagan almost destroyed Communism, and the Clinton administration has reinvented it, is now subsidizing it, and is now stabilizing it."--
Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, statement to the House

For what it's worth, I hope he does it. He may be a rogue, but his style on the floor was usually very amusing. I'll probably get flamed for this, but I got a kick out of him.

[RightWhale]

Should Traficant have his own radio show?

[The KG9 Kid]

I'll make an .MPEG and DivX .AVI video of this at some point if CSPAN replays it. Will post at a download location for anyone interested in preserving it for posterity.

[Theodore R.]

Traficant loses me on two points: he turned out to be an F.O.B., voting in December 1998 not to impeach "the president" even though he "exposed" his attorney general. Secondly, he is an abortion rights advocate. Besides the moral concern, he seems oblivious that abortion is in part a factor in Ohio's steady population erosion of the past thirty years.

[desertcry]

I don't think Traficant is ready to go 6 feet under yet. If he does what Rush says, he woun't even get a chance to go to jail. There's just too many lonely Parks in the DC area.

[IronJack]

If anyone saw Traficant before the House Ethics Committee, it is obvious that man is deranged. Apparently he thinks that because he's watched a couple of episodes of "L.A. Law," he's now an attorney. And because he swiped a cheap thesaurus, he's eloquent. What he really is is a fat, loutish thug who impresses only himself, and who is crookeder than a drunk snake's trail.

If the Republicans need a buffoon like him on their side, they are pitiful indeed.

[PhiKapMom]

Sincerely hope that Traficant is the DemocRATS worst nightmare!