Late Nite FDL 1.5: Open All NiteBy: TRex Tuesday July 17, 2007 8:54 pm |
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ZED!
Uno~
zoicks
Why are they calling the roll?
buggar, missed by a hair. *grins*
Menendez the blogosphere is clapping.
What is the sound of one blog clapping?
PEACE!
I guess the soundtrack for Late Late Night will have to be Van Morrison singing “Wild Night.”
P.S. Zed?
hi
I wonder if Lindsey Graham will appear in his usual nighttime attire – drag.
zed?
When will Webb be up?
If this vote fails, does everybody go home and go to bed?
At this rate, we’re going to have “late, late, late, late nite”.
And a quorum is not present, even.
Good night.
No Israel discussion here. Suzanne, I posted that last comment before I read your request.
Late Nite Episode 1.5: The Fuckery Continues…
Look at how empty the chamber is…WKOFIT!
Where the hell is everyone?
Thanks, Big Mitch :)
Atikar @ 18
Wimps!
Atikar @ 19
they’ve taken to the cots
Quick, someone needs to introduce an emergency supplemental to help compensate the prostitutes in D.C. for the money from republicans that they’re losing tonight.
Night Cleter.
guess I picked the right night to work on the laptop, but all this makes me want a cigarette and a cold beer. This is almost as much fun as watching the Nixon hearings. oh boy oh boy
Menendez was quite good I thought.
Hi Suzanne!
Elliott @ 21
Can we now start rumors about which Senators are sleeping together?
Someone said early that Hillary was there and voted on one of these quorum call thingies. But i haven’t seen her, and none of the candidates has been a speaker so far — I think.
Late Nite 1.5? Does that mean we’re guaranteed a 2.0?
tired over here, but its fascinating
Lindsay can be found on the sleeping porch.
Heading home, kids.
See you in a bit.
OK…I just saw Hillary on the Chamber floor.
Where’s Obama and Dodd and Biden?
Ohioan @ 13
No, the vote can fail, but if there is a quorum, they keep debating.
I was wondering if Lindsay Graham was going to be in PJ’s with feet or a negligee this evening. The above picture answers the question. FDL always on top of the story.
Atikar @ 18
Put their pictures on milk cartons. That works sometimes.
When Liebermann rants and lies about Iran and the threat he “alleges” that they pose to Israel and to the U.S. he opens up the door for responses and facts.
Ohioan @ 28
only the Republican ones
Hi Jane!
Drive safely, TRex. Hi yourself Jane. Feeling better?
Looks like Webb is about to take the Senate President’s chair — go Jim!!!
Jane Hamsher @ 26
Welcome Jane. You new here?
Nola Sue @ 29
Clutching her shawl to her bosom as the scent of wisteria floats by.
What kind of cottery is this?
Biden’s getting his teeth bleached.
TRex – I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your earlier post and the reference you made in the late night. One of my biggest peeves with people running for office is when they are currently employed (see presidential campain 2004 for example) by we the people and yet they manage to spends months on our dime telling us why they should get the renewal or the nod. ERRGH! As sharp as they all act, they sure seem to miss the irony there…
Scarecrow @ 32
I meant if there isn’t a quorum.
Scarecrow @ 32
And if there isn’t a quorum, Reid sends the Sargent at arms to round one up (by force if necessary).
Breaking News:
Jim Webb short sheeted Lyndsay Grahams cot.
-GSD
Eureka Springs @ 41
HA!
A sign I’m getting punchy. Everytime I hear Mike Crapo’s name I have to giggle.
DrDick @ 45
The Force will be with him.
DrDick @ 45
The Force will be with him.
Scarecrow @ 44
I don’t think that’s an appropriate subject for this blog…
bonkers @ 42
he has scary teeth
GSD @ 47
Can he dip the Dip’s hand in some warm water? The Lindsey would have to borrow a diaper from Vitter.
Scarecrow @ 40
Yeah, I just decided to de-lurk.
Forgive this clueless Canuck, but what did they just vote on?
GSD @ 47
He may not notice.
kathleen @ 36
Let’s keep that conversation on the last thread, not this one. Thanks.
Eureka Springs @ 41
I cot nothin’
Someones going to put McCains hand in a glass of warm water later on tonite, pass it along.
Specter stepped out to get his back waxed.
Scarecrow @ 56
707!!
Gee I thought Ol’ Lott would be wearin’ his RaCOON PJs. What a mess of vile, pusillanimous pusbags.
I mean Jeebus these folks are batshit crazy to stand up in front of the American People and say that they support President MoonBat about any damn thing much less the friggin’ Hostage Crisis.
Spin the bottle? With that crowd?
Not even with your mouth.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 60
Uhhhh. Ewww!
Lindsay’s most likely suffering from the vapors.
If the vote to send out the Sgt. at Arms succeeds, which Senators will get rounded up? Do they go get everyone or just enough for a quorum?
Scarecrow @ 55
Bah-duh-boom!
Looks like Barack is there. So’s Dodd.
bonkers @ 48
Inept Cot Center
Bluetoe @ 66
You can’t talk about Senator Graham like that! He’s been to Iraq!
Elliott @ 59
cotton pickin’
Thank you RBG
Clinton and Obama both voted in the procedural vote being taken now.
Think Progress live blogging
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..ilibuster/
neurophius @ 72
He’s taking a nap on five new rugs ; )
Is McCain going to sleep on one of his $5.00 Baghdad bazaar rugs?
-GSD
Damn, I step away to saute shrimp with maui onion and garlic, I come back and I’m relegated to the fifties! WTF!!! ;-)
What wouldn’t we give to see the above photo on the front page of every newspaper in the country tomorrow morning? So precious.
is that where he cot the vapors?
Dave Latchaw @ 74
Well, well. Isn’t it lovely that Their Nibbs could grace the Capitol with their inspiring presence?
Is there any suspense in this, or may we assume it will be a party line vote (with Joe as an R)?
Wow! There’s a BUNCH of SenateCritters on the floor. If the Wurlitzer doesn’t pick up on this. Oh. My bad. It’s the Wurlitzer. Let’s set the toobz on fire with how “Give ‘Em Hell Harry” got them to stay up late do do the Peoples’ work!
Sorry, I just now tuned into cspan2. Anybody know what it means: “The Sgt. at Arms is involved in name only”? Does that mean he won’t be shooting some obstructionists? Nor dragging them into the chamber by their heels?
here are the beddy-byes and the NYT take
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..DWsyFbAbaA
Eureka Springs @ 73
just a minute
Jane Hamsher @ 59
(((Jane))) I hope you’re feeling alright!!! 8-)
Crooks and liars. link to Matthews piece on Move on folks
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..for-a-dfh/
I just heard Kit Bond’s “no”. Not surprised, and it matches my vote over him the next time he runs.
Claire McCaskill, on the other hand… :-)
One way to de-legitimatize the Republicans is to laugh at them for the bufoons and charlatans they are.
NYT’s John Burns on Charlie Rose doing his typical things are really bad in Iraq but we should stay anyway. Talks about how American troops make a difference but like so many who go this route never gets around to discussing the endgame of how we ever get out of Iraq. Why is the NYT so pro-war?
They should do this every Tuesday night. It might get better ratings than “American Idol.”
On the topic from the last thread about the creepy use of “homeland” — ever since the new department was created, we’ve often referred to it around our house as the Department of Fatherland Security.
Kerry — Aye. JoeMental — No. Could someone please pay him to leave? Pharma company? SOmebody?
Bluetoe @ 66
Ouch, hot coffee through the nose hurts!
Night zennurse.
So I eat kinda different from Aunt Betsy. So now my choices are up for the pajama party.
Time for me to get my own pajamas! Good night.
Scarecrow @ 25
Yeah, like The Hill or Mr. Empty Suit Obama are gonna actually…you know….stand up for something besides their own attempts to be the next Bush. Pathetic if either gets elected. This guy or this guy have got more moxie in jes one of their lil’ fingers than both of them and BIg Doggy have in their entire corporatist bodies.
Bah….
Watch fer Harry to jab McConnell in the goolies if’n he gits him a chance.
Bluetoe @ 88
It’s a lot of fun, too.
Senatebators in their cots are so creepy and so ridiculous. Which side is Lieberbabies cot on, has he put in his cot with lott.
Alison is seriously dissing Mrs. Vitter’s fashion sense on Countdown.conniptionfit @ 83
Okay, we hashed this out last time. I think it goes like this.
The vote is to involve the Sergeant at Arms in rounding up a quorum.
However, if there are 51 votes, either way, the vote is moot, since there is ipso facto a quorum.
Therefore, the SAA is “involved in name only.”
Bummer,
Been gone outside all day – that’s not a bummer – and the first words I hear when I put C-SPAN up on the labtop are “Mr. Lieberman, No.” While I can agreee with that as a sentiment, is his “no” on whether or not to play “naked twister” with Lindsay Graham? Or what?
‘night, Cassie!
SnarKassandra @ 97
Ummmmmmm…my doggies luv them Plushies.
Suzanne @ 38
Much better Suzanne, thanks.
File under: Things I never thought I’d say.
I sure wish Strom Thurmond was there tonight. They couldn’t even keep him awake during the day. What fun it would’ve been to see the Sargent-at-Arms carry his limp body in and try to prop him up in a chair…oh, the hijinks that would’ve followed…
zennurse @ 85
Funny, that’s probably the closest to something that resembles an Army barracks most of the Republicans have ever seen.
Redshift @ 93
really, that terminology makes my skin jump and crawl.
SnarKassandra @ 96
Night Cassie. I wouldn’t eat any of those stuffed animals, might give you indigestion.
Al Queda in Iraq reality check today on Olbermann
Olberman and terroism analyst
http://www.crooksandliars.com/…..ity-check/
Redshift @ 91
You mean Die Abteilung der Vaterland-Sicherheit?
DrDick @ 109
TRex likes to eat them.
‘Night, Cassie.
I just popped over to Limbaugh’s site to see what the other side of the trench was saying about tonight’s events, and got this:
“The Senate Democrats are all upset that the Iraqi parliament’s taking a summer recess. We’re in the middle of a war. How can they do this? We’re in the middle of a war. And here we’ve got stunts and nothing being done by our own legislature, our own Congress, nothing but stunts, nothing but investigations, nothing but harassment, nothing of substance, and they have been on vacation all summer. The only difference is I love it when they go on vacation. When they go on vacation, nothing gets done, and one of the best things that can happen to the country is when they’re in session or when there is gridlock. This is a taxpayer funded publicity stunt that’s going to happen tonight. If you look, there’s a big story in The Politico about how this thing all came about, and it’s very clear that the Democrats are now so completely beholden to the appeasement left, these kooks on the Internet, that they’re putting on this show for them. They’re putting on this show for the MoveOn.orgs and for the other things like that, and those organizations are actually running this. Schumer is talking to them, Reid’s talking, like they care what these people say and think, and these people are actually yanking the chains of the Democrats who are making this happen.”
Take a bow!
boxer @ 95
I hate when that happens!
burnspbesq @ 108
Gesundheit.
Well, I’m not so embarrassed now…I have confirmation that both my Senators are on the Senate floor. (Kerry [MA] just voted).
I’m wondering if this theatre pretty much will be a constant stream of these procedural votes for the next 10-12 hours. It’s now 9 PM on the Left Coast, so most everyone in the MSM is not paying any real attention to this (save the little work that Nightline did a few moments ago). Don’t get me wrong, I think this is great for the county (or is it Homeland ?) to see, but somehow, I’m thinking it’s all just spinning wheels. Again, I’m glad Harry Reid is taking it to them, but where is the PR machine for the Dems on this? Why don’t we have interviews with Dem senators on CNN or MSNBC or any legitimate (yeah, who am I kidding) media outlet to get the message out about what exactly is happening here.
Oh, well…I’ve spouted too much…going to bed soon anyways.
The office of Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) dispatched interns to buy toothpaste, toothbrushes and deodorant for delivery to GOP leadership offices, with a note offering the “supplies for your sleepless night.” It added: “Help us bring an end to this war.”
wapo
I think i’m going to get another round of rice in my cooker. Need one last bit of food in my stomach before i crash before work tonight.
(yes that machine is a lifesaver for one who has no luck cooking good asian rice on a gas range. yes the stuff that takes a half hour to cook–not minute rice!)
Scarecrow @ 108
And far closer to what the American citizens made homeless by Katrina have experienced than any doddering Republican
criminalSenator ever thought they’d get.On the subject of the cots — a long time ago, I saw a show about the Capitol building with (damn) what’s her name, uh, Lindy Boggs daughter.
There are these huge bathtubs in the basement for occassions such as this. Giant marble things.
Scarecrow @ 108
You know, that is a sad irony
Why do some people refer to their country as “The Fatherland” (Germans) and others as “The Motherland” (Russians)? I guess every country can be a “Homeland,” but are we a father or mother to our people? This is not a serious question.
Has the Pharmaceutical lobby supplied the Rethug docters
some of those all nighter pills the pilots take on their marathon
bombing missions so these Dinosaurs have the stamina for
all nighters like they did on the sly when younger. Just wonder
how they can muster the presence of mind let alone their analytic
reasoning so late into the night. Let them talk James Joyce
word salads and expose the fools they truly are.
zennurse @ 116
And tampons for Miss Graham.
BigMitch @ 118
Cokie Roberts?
What’s the website I can see the all-nighter on? Thanks!!!!
jhaygood @ 113
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!
BigMitch @ 119
Cokie Roberts.
This isn’t going to turn into one of those morning of the living dead things is it.
BigMitch @ 118
I pity anybody who has to suffer the indignity of seeing Joe Lieberman naked.
Hugh @ 90
Hugh, compare that or normal NYT on Iraq to this story Tuesday by Helene Cooper.
From the debate tonight it feels as if the Democrats have the Republicans on the ropes. Keep punching, stay out of the corners and wait for that knockout blow. It’s coming!
Hi pups -
Great to be back.
Hi Jane – what a happy Late Night surprise. Hope you’re feeling better and enjoying the show.
(I think you and Christy may have helped get it on the air…)
Wow – Lake’s crowded tonight – have I missed something?
(ducks)
EvilDrPuma @ 129
Thanks a lot. Now I need a whole new jug of brain bleach.
jhaygood @ 113
Yeah, well Fat Russ is in for a rude shock in the near future as he finds out Why I am an Idiot! The Fat, pill-poppin’, hatemonger is gonna be right out the door as folks reject his foul schtick.
neurophius @ 128
We these people..)
argosfalcon @ 128
Pretty much guaranteed. How many of the Republican Senate caucus do you think are actually pumping blood?
zennurse @ 116
serious?
powwow500 @ 126
CSPAN 2
jhaygood @ 112
Thanks for sharing…now take a shower.
Wow. That’s quite encouraging. What’s that saying I see around here alot…First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then you win?
Seems like we’re getting 2/3’s of the way through now!
This is a bit tangential, but I’ve been watching Joe Scarborough’s “Morning Joe” recently on MSNBC and have been amazed by his frank description of what he, as a former Repub US Congressman / current national media host, keeps hearing from his “Republican friends,” as he puts it.
He flat-out says that, off the record, they almost all say the war is done, we’ve got to get out of there, but they have to find a way to do it. And Scarborough has the spine to say, right there on national teevee, that he’s disgusted with the politics of it.
I keep thinking of this as I watch these disgusting, sanctimonious hypocrites preen & howl.
There’ll be a special circle of hell..
powwow500 @ 125
cspan.org
zennurse @ 117
EvilDrPuma @ 137
They are the Legions of the Damned.
Sparkles the Iguana @ 123
Fizzy beer through the nose stings. Good thing I turned my head away from the new flat screen.
Breaking News:
Joe Lieberman was found canoodling with George W. Bush in a hallway closet.
Updates to follow.
-GSD
Twain @ 124
Thank you. Tom Friedman’s wife, too, I believe.
So what the blogs (and us at FDL) are telling our great senators, is that ‘If you stay up all night fighting for democracy, so will we’
What would be great is if our senators each had an aide which spread across the blogosphere to listen to us and disceminate the info real-time and give it to our senators so that they can be heavily armed when they debate against the republicans on any more bills.
Wouldn’t it be great to hear Tim Stevens say something outrageous and a fucking lie, only to have the truth in writing, with sources, in five minutes after Stevens’ is done talking?
‘Oh but senator, didn’t you say x and y on June 5 2006?
That is what I’d like to see. I’d like to see our senators having the very best tools and talking-points at their disposal.
GSD @ 147
Eeeeew! *reaches for the brain bleach.*
Yea 41
Nay 37
Jim Webb!
Gore-Webb 2008…
Good evening all.
Bwahahahah ahhahah haha hahahahahahah haha hahaha hahahahah hahahahahah hahahah hahahah. That photo is good!
Go Harry Reid!
BigMitch @ 147
No, Steve Roberts’s wife.
TexB @ 152
g’night! Sleep well, TexB
BigMitch @ 147
cokie is married to stephen roberts.
Hi Folks,
Just sneaking in for a snack.
I’m waaaaay to tired to read the previous comments.
(My dad passed in the middle of the night, been doing a lot of details today)
But, I miss you all and had to pop in.
So, it’s a sleep over?
Heck, I’ve got people comin’ in to my place from out of town and I’ve got the toothpaste and tampons and a Really Clean Kitchen and Lottsa food. Sleepoverready.
Cokie is married to Steve Roberts, a journalist.
Webb presiding….WOOOOOOOOOOO !
Will he keep his gun in its holster????
Has anyone been keeping track of who is wearing yellow ties?
Elliott @ 157
Not good night. I’m around for a while longer. Still have a fridge and cupboard full of snacks. Healthier than what you may have seen recently.
BigMitch @ 138
yup.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..id=topnews
night kids, can’t make it. hug to you Jane.
OMG, you gotta read this.
Buried deep in a NYT article on the future of abstinence education is the most unintentionally hilarious thing a wingnut has ever said. On any subject.
You’ll know it when you read it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..ref=slogin
demi @ 158
Oh demi, you have my deepest sympathy.
This Isakson guy from Geohgia has some rather fractured syntax.
demi @ 156
So sorry, Demi.
lina @ 156
That’s right. He used to be on Washington week all the time. I like him.
TexB @ 161
oops!
Hey, demi. Sorry to hear about your dad. My condolences.
neurophius @ 156
Kookie Cokie. The inside the beltway doyenne of “conventional wisdom.”
Sorry to hear that, Demi. Thoughts and prayers to your family.
Damn, Demi, so sorry.
Demi, I’m sorry to hear that your dad passed. My deepest sympathies.
all my sympathy demi
neurophius @ 166
That’s how he got elected. Lynne Westmoreland is even better at that, when he’s dumb enough to even open his mouth.
Blessings to you , demi.
namaste
zen
“The progress has been made. Some has been made, some has not been made.”
Your point, Senator?
Sorry Demi. My condolences.
demi, my sympathies, too
Isakson on benchmarks…
“Some has been made, some has been not made.”
Jeebus. He’s illiterate.
Demi, sorry to hear about your father. I hope that he passed peacefully.
GSD @ 146
OMG!!! Is Karl there to “facilitate”? Or that reporter, what was his name, oh yeah, James Guckert? You know, to catch?
Ed*ard Teller @ 102
That would have been a yes.
Your family is in our thoughts and prayers, Demi.
burnspbesq @ 164
GOTTA be talking about the tape thang. ROFLMAO
{{{{{demi and family}}}}}
Nola Sue @ 180
Please add mine as well.
So, so sorry demi. May he rest.
FUCKING ISAACSON!! I HAAAAAAAAATE HIM!!!
Cozumel @ 180
As I said earlier, for some of these Republicans to sound like High School students would be a step up.
Demi, pardon the gross snark. I typed before I read. My sympathies.
Our thoughts are with you Demi.
-GSD
burnspbesq @ 164
Because Joe LIE dulled my senses tonight, may I check my answer? Is it “Stickiness”?
Thanks for that ;-)
Our government is nothing but a Saturday Night Live skit.
WRXK:
Are Joe Lieberman and John McCain in bed with each other? TONIGHT AT 11:00.
So, Isaacson is saying that our war policy should be driven by some church-lady from Columbus, Georgia.
Oh, that’s a great idea!
Isakson yielded the rest of his time. Guess he ran out of thoughts.
{{{{{{{{{ demi }}}}}}}}}
TRex @ 189
I sympathize. Until last year, we had to deal with Conrad Burns, who makes Isaacson sound like Cicero.
TRex @ 190
Is he a stroke victim? The left side of his mouth doesn’t move.
TRex @ 189
he is all done now – and karma will pay him back. look, a dem is speaking now.
burnspbesq @ 164
Sex ed in general and abstainence ed in particular are sticky subjects.
It bothers me that Kucinich is pro-abstainence ed.
neurophius @ 197
Yeah, both of them.
BREAKING NEWS: The overnight
sleepoversession debate was put on halt tonight after a group of senators in the cots started laughing uncontrollably over a joke-telling contest. It is rumored that mom is pissed.cancer_cures @ 195
Please, the last thing i need is Senate Slash running across my brain tonight.
I’d rather go back to my stargate and my anime/manga characater yaoi, thank you.
(yes i know it’s snark. but the eeeew! factor keeps overriding it. you’re ruining my prOn!)
Ooh, My esteemed Sen. Akaka, at bat!!!
Good to see Akaka speaking, he rarely gets any press time.
Demi, sorry to hear of your loss!
Now, my wife says I’m not in government (yet) so I need to come to bed. Night all, it was great seeing what the late-night crowd is like!
Virginity RULES.
Running low on provisions, I just ate an entire cantaloupe. May have to retrieve the salt pork and dried venison from the cellar.
cancer_cures @ 204
PILLOW FIGHT!!!
burnspbesq @ 164
Ewwww, sticky is icky!
I used to know a (bad) AIDs educator who actually stood in front of an auditorium of high school kids and said,” Don’t have sex. Sex is a wet thing.” She thought that was a great deterrent.
Thanks for the belly laugh, goodnight
demi @ 159
*hugs ya bigtime* You’re gonna need that.
neurophius @ 209
Mom is about to choose which one has to sleep on the floor of mom’s room and not with the friends.
Eureka Springs @ 201
Nah. He’s a victim of the liberal media. Just like Dave “Hooker” Vitter, and every other Repuke.
neurophius @ 195
If it was just that, he never would have spoken.
Love and prayers for you and your family, demi.
TexB @ 211
Eww! That sounds inappropriate.
cancer_cures @ 205
Some say Senator Warner started it by declaring Great Cot!
So sorry, Demi.
TexB @ 211
Hmmm
Night noonan.
Foundations: 100 years rewriting our history.
http://www.realityzone.com/hiddenagenda2.html
I bet Issacson is one of those asswipes beating the drum about speaking English.
-GSD
So that is it, Harry Reid just got up and told everyone there will be a regular old republican vote tomorrow at 11 am, and no more roll calls till after 5 am. So everyone gets to go home and sleep till 5 and still get the credit for an all night-er. And tomorrow we can all watch Mitch McConnell stand there and crow about how foolish the democrats are to think that they can out smart a republican. And how they are the do nothing congress and they are weak on national security and any thing else he feels like throwing in there. Makes me sick.
Did the whole world go along with this charade? Am I the only one who really cares about the troops and the people of Iraq and the rest of you are just having great fun politicking? PU
noonan @ 210
You’re right! But, you do see why, don’t ya??? His heart is in the right place, yet, his oratory needs some serious tweaking!!!
Sparkles the Iguana @ 216
Lindsey Graham is the scout leader and David Vitter is canteen-boy.
I don’t get the “cottery” reference, but given the widespread repression of sexual identity amongst the GOP, or whatever you wish to call it, it brought some humor thinking of “what kind of buggery is this?!”
Is this on Cspan 2…which I tried earlier, to no avail? Called all of Durbin’s 8 numbers, and 7 of 8 were full message boxes, and one was a screwy number.
Eureka Springs @ 199
One of the many sad byproducts of too much masturbation.
Sticky goes along with Jack Ripper’s “precious bodily fluids”. Kubrik would have had a field day.
kathleen @ 12
very OT….
kathleen, here
is the latest Google alert on the A*P*C spy trial.
Who’s this?
All Y’all. All of YOU!
My many thanks for your outpouring.
I’m gratefull for his release and I’m thankful that he not longer has to watch
THIS SH*T on his TV. He was a kind man. I was looking at the ceiling, wondering if I could discern his soul lingering.
I’m grateful for this place.
And, now, snark away!
Sparkles the Iguana @ 209
You need to get your butt up to our place. We’re getting SBT sandwiches ready – smoked salmon-basil-tomato. A Kosher version of a BLT.
Who’s this hair-farmer in the purple tie?
OMG: my state’s other embarrassment is up now. The first being Inhof.
Coburn is giving me heartburn.
Demi your words were very poignant.
I’ll be having some of ET’s salmon for breakfast. Very grateful, am I.
(((((demi & family )))))
yellowdogD @ 234
Oh dear. You are a fellow Okie then? I was fortunate enough to get out before the Rethugs took over the state.
Why is this guy wearing a squirrel on his head?
I think the guy with the purple tie forgot the rest of his Barney costume.
I keep expecting Coburn to pull a James Stockdale: “Who am I? Why am I here?”
He just seems spectacularly out of his element.
Nola Sue @ 193
That was the one I had in mind.
Don’t know about anyone else, but I know I’ll never look at a roll of tape the same way again.
Ed*ard Teller @ 232
Just found a beer, a yogurt, and a lemon.
argosfalcon @ 240
Because he is a psycho Oklahoma Republican (OK, I know that is redundant).
Bring back Zell Miller!
I think Dr. Coburn is getting a little overextended with his medical metaphor.
argosfalcon @ 221
Just a threat to quiet things down.
argosfalcon @ 238
The squirrel heard there was an enormous nut in town, and hasn’t let go since.
Nola Sue @ 241
His meds are wearing off. He should start frothing at the mouth and gesticulating wildly at an moment.
when did the moral conversation about the well-being of iraqi citizens when starting this war???????
bastard
cancer_cures @ 205
What a hoot to be had by all! Can’t wait until they put a dozing Trent Lott’s hand in a bowl of warm water or they put Kay Bailey Hutchison’s bra in the freezer. Sometime around 3:00, they can take a little break and roll the White House lawn!
Webb, you can take this guy out with a well aimed dart.
neurophius @ 248
He said Iraq has cancer.. so what does that make us? Something that needs to be removed.
This is good. We’re the doctor and Iraq has cancer and we are giving it chemo and radiation thearapy. How about throwing in a little lobotomy and electroshock?
Eureka Springs @ 254
America has a cancer and it’s called the Republican Party.
forgive me but isn’t this guy moaning quietly, contrary to the Cheerful Noises Act?
Of course their arms don’t have to be twisted. They go along willingly.
BigMitch @ 239
If you eat too much, you turn into Yoda. De nada, amigo.
jc in OR` @ 255
Chemo? Oh, so it’s US that has weapons of mass destruction!
Every squirrel finds a nut sooner or later. See this one found Tom Coburn.
DrDick @ 241
Yes, I am. You’re fortunate to be away from this hellhole. I’ve seen some of your pictures of W. Montana, and indeed you are very fortunate.
Cheney pep talks? bullshit.
More like Darth makign sure his soldiers are still following orders.
republican party = colon cancer
Dear Heavens! I just left for a bit and here we are. Only 30 hours? Damn. And why 30? And why are we turning off the chemotherapy?
PoliticalPolyanna @ 251
Brain bleach, STAT! I just got a mental image of Kay’s tits.
eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!
jc in OR` @ 256
Not covered by their policy.
My thoughts are with you, demi. It will get easier. You will laugh again and not feel guilty. Remember all the good things, and listen for the stories people tell you as you gather. I learned a lot of new things about my Dad at his wake. I knew him well, but people dredge up some “new” stories you haven’t heard, or from before you were born, or when he was a child, etc. Listen for these treasures.
neurophius @ 250
How can he be a Dr.? He’s the epitome of a Flat-Earther and Creationist!!!
you guys are making my chest hurt, that god the stitches are out.
argosfalcon @ 242
That’s a polecat. Or skunk, if you prefer.
TRex @ 233
IAAC,he’s an OB/GYN who’s practicing his love on America’s women. Seriously.
“We” have made a lot of mistakes in the Middle East? What do you mean “We,” white boy?
I’m staying up late for a bad Perry Coma imitation.
“Anvilania….
yellowdogD @ 264
My son and his family (as well as my sister and her family) still live there. NE Oklahoma (where I am from) is awful pretty as well.
oh gosh…
the republicans now care about how many iraqis will die???
Defending Cheney! LOL
VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don’t know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we didn’t have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we’ve learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.
We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of ’93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.
Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080244/
that= thank
The lede at the NYT,
but in the body of the story this nice quote from Durbin
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07…..ng.html?hp
Again two things, this article concentrates on Republican qualms not their continued intransigence. And by looking at it from the GOP perspective, the vast majority of the quotes and citations are from Republicans.
Nowhere does the article point out that these Republicans oppose what 70% of the country wants. No it’s all about doubts about the Democrats.
Truly, if the NYT wants to be a great paper, my advice is hire some reporters. You have more than enough stenographers.
No, Coburn, only the Repugs talk about the Iraqis in the abstract, if you actually think about them at all. Some of us think about all those who’ve already died. /rage
Back to regularly scheduled slumber-party.
Iraq had multiple pre-existing conditions. They would’ve been denied coverage, squirrel-killer.
At this very moment our fearless Leader is sleeping soundly in the land of nod. One can only wonder what dreams are dancing through his head.
McCain’s asking Lindsey “so, have you ever bopped your baloney?”
Ed*ard Teller @ 260
I am not sure if that is a reference to my favorite joke of all time.
“hair farmer”???
ROFLMAO! That’s great. I am trying not to wake up the household laughing!
CTuttle @ 269
Must have graduated from the Oral Roberts Medical and Faith Healing School
WHAT??!! A Republican is complaining about how we “never think about the Iraqi people”?!
Dumbass. Remember Rummy? “We don’t do body counts.”
He’s an Ob/gyn who performed skin grafts on Iraqi children? Can they sue him?
Coburn is borrinng, how many more minutes?
alexandriacynic @ 271
Much to the disgrace of the AMA and the Oklahoma Medical Board, he is.
boxer @ 284
his response – “No, I take a book to bed and turn pages until my eyes droop…”
Is there a trap door in the Senate?
Is that a nutty pole cat wearing a squirrel?
jc in OR` @ 257
radiation therapy?!? chemo?? does this mean he thinks we have been (or should have been) using tactical nukes and chemical weapons? maybe I just don’t get this metaphor or analogy or whatever it was supposed to be …
Demi, much love to you and your family…..:(
Bluetoe @ 294
Hey!
OK. I hate to leave this party, but must. sleep.
Thanks, all — I’ve laughed, I’ve cried. And I’ve remembered why de-lurking is always best.
((((Jane)))) ((((Demi)))) ((((Firepups))))
Dr. Dick @277
That’s where I am. Up on Grand.
Bluetoe @ 279
Sugarplums and codpieces. It’s all good.
Please see, “Ghraib, Abu” for more information.
G’night Sue, sweet dreams.
AirportCat @ 293
WARNING!
Do not try to follow Republican logic. That way lies madness
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
precipitous withdrawal
Why no more roll call until 5:00? That’s stupid. Defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
mutzali @ 269
I’m printing envelopes with my mom’s address on them for people coming to the service so that they can mail us their shared stories. We’re putting packets of flower seeds in them as well.
I’m so grateful.
Bluetoe @ 292
Which should be triggered by the use of the word precipitous in which case he’d be gone.
demi @ 307
That’s a really great idea.
There is a new thread ready.
BigMitch @ 286
Okay BigMitch … out with it … I will not sleep until I hear this joke …
New thread.
http://www.firedoglake.com/200…..e-jammies/
yellowdogD @ 300
Gorgeous country there. Always Grand Lake. Grew up in Bartlesville and did my undergraduate in Tahlequah. Got my Ph. D. at OU and got the hell out of Dodge.
a man on a subway car notices that the man sitting next to him is reading a Yiddish newspaper.
So he asks him: “Are you Jewish?”
“Yes”
The man continues: “I’ve heard that you Jews are so smart! What makes you so smart? How can I be smart like a Jew? I’ve always wanted to be smart, like you Jews?”
The Jew is annoyed by this and finally says to him, “It’s because we eat lox.”
“Lox? Wow! What is Lox? Where can I get lox? I would give anything for some of this lox? I want to be smart like a Jew, and if I could only get some lox …”
The old Jewish guy, says, “Well, it just so happens, I have some right here.”
“Wow! Can I buy some?? I’ll pay anything for lox! I want it so I can be smart! Please won’t you sell me some lox?”
So the Jewish man sells him a piece of lox the size of a postage stamp for $100. The man tastes it and says: “What the fuck! This is nothing but smoked salmon!
The old man says: “See! You are smarter already!”
Fresh all nite upstairs
PoliticalPolyanna @ 287
I routinely scare my poor long-suffering little dog. My sons sleep through it. ;)
demi @ 307
sweet
Hey folks: Go upstairs for more!
Sparkles the Iguana @ 301
Dancing bottles of Jack Daniels laced with Afganistan’s finest powder. Oh wait, that’s what sitting next to him as he drools asleep…
timmm @ 305
It’s the NEW Kristolism. “Cut-and-Run” is just so last month!
Harkin should be good.
AirportCat @ 294
He’s way out there. Now admitting it’s a mess of our own making. Like being in surgery and thinking about possible malpractice suits, etc, I guess. Yields the floor. I think he was about to crack.
DrDick @ 288
There, or Robertson’s Regent(Liberty?) Med. School!!! 8-)
(rushes into the room, *PUFF* *GasP* tries to lick some crumbs from downstairs snacks off her fingers while still trying to catch her breath)
wowza, the toobz are lively tonight. I give up on trying to read prev. threads. But a big THANK YOU to all posters, mods, commenters and backstage tech wizards for a view on tonights action. Means a lot since i had a long shift today and no tv at home. Your comments are better than watching it myself.
{{{demi & family}}}}}}} it’s not easy even when you know it’s coming. May his spirit pass gently into that Greater Good. Hope your dad was able to transition onward with hope and peace in his heart. (Lost my father earlier this year; it was a comfort to him to see such a Blue landslide in November, canny ol NewDealer that he was, he knew a landslide whether or not the MSM did.)
Luv ya all. Glad to see Jane taking part, means she’s feeling better, we hope ;~).
BigMitch @ 314
707 !!!
Poor Tom Coburn. Those questions were dealt with before Bush invaded and they went anyway. Bush already put us back years. There is no good outcome for Iraq at this point. No matter what is done it is a bloody tragedy. There are no right solutions with a happy ending.
Our moral obligation was to never invade another country.
Now Tom Harkin. Yes, call it what it is, a civil war. Yes, expose their lies. Yes, it is Vietnam point by point. Bush refused patience with the United Nations and rush to invade Iraq. Now he wants “patience” from the American people.
See you upstairs QuakerGirl.