Live Thread: Estrada Confirmation Filibuster

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | February 12, 2003

[Howlin]

As requested, a thread to follow the filibuster.

[gov_bean_ counter]

North Koreans are being "ignored"...

Lies and more lies, of course. The UN nuke watchers declared NK in breach today.

[Howlin]

Edwards is having a hard time, ain't he?

He's making the blacks in South Carolina mad because his campaign isn't honoring the boycott like HE said they would.

He's making the whites in North Carolina mad because of honoring the boycott.

And now he's going to make the Hispanics in North Carolina mad because of this filibuster.

Add that to his already plunging approval ratings -- since he isn't ever HERE anyway -- and he better hope he gets the Democratic nomination; he just might not get another six years in the Senate!

You just think we had a party last November downtown.....the NC Freepers will dance in the streets!

[nicmarlo]

Usually, most every thread ends up with hysterical comments.....most enjoyable sense of humor on FR, that's for sure!

[CyberAnt]

Rush played this segment - it was breathtaking. The longer Hatch talked, the louder his voice got - I was driving down the highway yelling in support.

Rush said this is happening all over the Congress. The repubs are fed up with the ultra left wing politics of obstruction and they are going after them.

I hope they keep it up!

[Inspectorette]

If you have time, go back and read the running commentary on Sen. "Sheets" Byrd. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

That, plus idiot Byron Dorgan confusing the "Amber Alert" system with the "Orange" Terror Alert.

We can only hope that bloated gasbag Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy is on deck for more of the same idiocy.

[nicmarlo]

OMG.....you must read the thread....he was talking about fiddling...then FReepers were saying about him fiddling under sheets....I think this was back around 300 something; he spoke for 50 minutes about the stupidest things, from what I gather reading here. And the comments were a riot on FR

[Marysecretary]

Mine, too! The disgusting duo!

[Mo1]

He talked about his best friend Joe that passed away over the weekend .. then he talked about 1934 was the year he graduated from High School and it was the year TV was invented ..

Then he talked about drinking out of fruitjuice glasses and chewing gum and all the pretty girls

Hmmmmm then something about Fiddlers and a Haunted Salance in the Senate

[woodyinscc]

Okay, I'm back...........what's happening????

One thing you missed was the psychotic ramblings of the soul of the Senate Byrd. It was actually hilarious.

[PhiKapMom]

Was really impressed with Peter King yesterday with his stance on France. He didn't mince any words!

[nicmarlo]

excellent summary, Mo1; I forgot about the haunted salad in the senate : )

[Howlin]

Harry Reid is a flat out liar and is playing for the audience.

Hatch had a sign as big as a house right there on the Senate floor that said WEAPONS OF MASS OBSTRUCTION.

Reid is playing to the useful idiots that call into C-SPAN!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I previously suggested FNC run a "Filibusting Estrada" pop-up box every so often, show the Rats and run text of what they are saying.

Great suggestion. I missed half of Byrd and all of the honorable Gordon Smith, but it seems that Sen. Dorgan was absent on 9-11.

Some of the comments on this thread are hilarious!

[fightinJAG]

"Good material"

Dawg! Just wait'll Leno et al. gettaholda this Rat crap!

[PhiKapMom]

That's great! Have you thought about running for office?

[Howlin]

If this goes on a while, Lord only knows what you'll hear Byrd talking about!

[nicmarlo]

The disgusting duo!

gag...evil twins alert, that's what they would be called, but disgusting duo is very good, too.

[Mo1]

beating back the forces of foscism??

Ok .. Now he's back to talking about Estrada again

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!!!!!!!! The man cannot even figure out the difference in alerts and he wants us to believe what he says!

[fightinJAG]

PUNCHLINE OF THE YEAR AWARD !!!