“At this stage, it is a bipartisan bill,” Feinstein said. “I’m absolutely convinced that the only way we can legislate on this is on a bipartisan basis. This bill so far is bipartisan — that’s good news.” Dianne Feinstein

Can someone tell me why it is good news?

It isn’t. Apparently senators get hypnotized by weird ideas like civility, appropriate behavior, bipartisanship and the like. They forget sometimes that they have a job to do for their state and their country and that comes first.

A senator’s oath of office doesn’t mention bipartisanship.

looseheadprop @ 106

You have just gone a long way to explaining one of the best arguements the “bipartisan” telco lobyists have:

Is there any Wall Street type lurking here who wants to explain to the folks about how many pension fund dollars are invested in telco stocks, and what will ahppen if those telcos get hit the way Big Tobacco was hit?

So Rocky is going to say he bent over because, “Indemnifying the telcos was the only way to ensure the payment of pensions…”?

Fascinating. Well, that’s certainly an excellent argument for why we should’ve had pension reform back in the 1980s and still need it today.

Hmmm, pragmatism…at this time in history… I don’t know. what does everybody else think. Can we afford that or is it crazy?

Dear God, please grant the miracle of 41 United States senators who (1) believe in the leftist notion called “the rule of law,” and (2) who have some minimal sense of how to defend it. Yes, Lord, I know that’s asking a lot.

Ha! “Yes, Lord, I know that’s asking a lot.” That’s hilarious.

LOL

Best of the Web Wall Street Journal
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Mrs. Clinton Sells Out
Columnist Bob Novak has one of the day’s funnier Capitol Hill stories:
Would the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved out of a bill funding health care and education? It would, because its sponsored by New York’s influential senators, Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer–and they promote the pet project of a big-time Democratic donor.
Nevertheless, as the Senate began consideration Wednesday of the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) proposed an amendment to eliminate the earmark. The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. Coburn argues that a “taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback” cuts into the government’s Education for Homeless Children and Youth grants. . . .
Even by Congress’ shameless standards, the Bethel earmark is extraordinary. “What Cooperstown is to baseball,” says the museum’s Web site, “Bethel could be to the baby boom.” Earlier this year, Bethel advertised a “Hippiefest” as a “return to the flower-powered days of the 1960s.”
The hippies of the 1960s fancied themselves iconoclastic, idealistic free spirits, as exemplified by Mrs. Clinton’s 1969 student commencement speech at Wellesley College:
Every protest, every dissent, whether it’s an individual academic paper, Founder’s parking lot demonstration, is unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age. That attempt at forging for many of us over the past four years has meant coming to terms with our humanness. Within the context of a society that we perceive–now we can talk about reality, and I would like to talk about reality sometime, authentic reality, inauthentic reality, and what we have to accept of what we see–but our perception of it is that it hovers often between the possibility of disaster and the potentiality for imaginatively responding to men’s needs. . . . It’s such a great adventure. If the experiment in human living doesn’t work in this country, in this age, it’s not going to work anywhere.
But we also know that to be educated, the goal of it must be human liberation. A liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves.
Well, maybe when we sought a liberation enabling each of us to fulfill our capacity so as to be free to create within and around ourselves, our reach exceeded our grasp. But we’re willing to settle for a million bucks from the government!

Dodd/Edwards? If Gore doesn’t come in.

second the motion…or Edwards/Dodd. Either way, something short of Gore that we could live with and probably even be proud of.
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Guys,

Advise from a conservative, let Bush go, he isn’t running again, he is done in politics in 15 months. Have your politicians figure out what they stand for…Pelosi and Reid certainly don’t know. Tell them to stop doing stupid things like going after private citizens. Rush has made them look like absolute fools. This doesn’t necessarily make me feel good, jeeze 41 of the most powerful people in the world being brought to bear by a lone radio talk show host. God forbid if they have to go against someone like Putin, he will tear them apart.