“Speaker Pelosi, does it disturb you that your personal and campaign telephone discussions are most likely being tapped by the Bush Administration exploiting the FISA legislation you helped pass?”

The question I would like to ask is a two parter. Why do you think the Congress’ approval is so low, and do you think it would be if you had stopped the war and stood up for the Constitution?

Please ask her if she is obstructing impeachment proceedings because of her complicity in the most overreaches of power and isurpation of the constitution by the Bush adminstration. Why else capitulate to a 28% President?

Hi BT Nancy gots a big crowd here Code Pink Dresses like Lefty Strippers in drag…but in a good way. But why is Nancy here we want impeachment she has to know that? Does she want to be convinced? should we riot to convince her?
Just Kidding are they playing Heavy Metal before Nancy gets on the Stage?

Uh, yeah the music choice is interesting. WTF?

I’d prefer to see Code Pink go over to the Wingnut countergathering in Austin and chat with Novak, Malkin, et al.

Madam Speaker, what would it have taken to get impeachment on the table and actually investigated?

Hey BT. I’m sitting right on the center aisle, about five tables back from the stage. When Nancy takes the stage, I’m going to hold my pocket Constitution high for her to see. I’ll try to hold it there for entire appearance. The idea is that if I hold up the Constitution to her, maybe she will uphold it for us.

I know, not likely, but a guy can dream.

There is a rumor that the “surprise guest” is Al Gore.

People still crowding in here. Really good turnout for an early morning session after what must have been millions of gallons of margarita mix last night.

I’m 4 tables behind the large left bigscreen.

Session is going to start in 1 minute.

Here we go…

I’m 738.41 miles north, and a little bit east, in front of the little screen.

Y’all can be thankful I’m not there, sometimes I can be a real asshole and Nancy is very high on my list.
She is complicit in the lawbreaking.

Ok just who is choosing the music?
Damm their asking for no oraganised protest. Ok they gave us 10 seconds I yelled impeach now so loud heads turned well I was in the back but I wasn’t the only one yelling.

Settling into my chair in front of the screen. THIS is going to be good.

I’m still recovering from dinner with all the firepups! In bed and reading along.

Spped Metal organ with Bag pipes or are my ears still ringing from the flight.

bingo

Just announced that my Congressman, Lloyd Doggett, is also here.

I like Doggett, but he ain’t all that special.

Well we could call for Nancy to be investigated:)

Sorry Speed metal Organ with Bag pipes

Lloyd Doggett is opening the session with some nice remarks about the netroots.

Dangit, TCU, I’m writing a post for my blog calling for the first three to be charged by the ICC to be Bush, Cheney and Pelosi. She needs to be charged because she is the one person who could have started the process to bring the atrocities to an end.

Buy that man a drink.

Everybody is typing at their computers while Doggett is talking but then again he is praising Nancy “she listens, engages then leads”? WTF is he on?

Pelosi comes in — to nice but not raucus applause.

How did I find all those nice things to say about Pelosi? And why are so many clapping?

Barack Obama has landed in Afghanistan. So far no gun fire from the McTeleprompter campaign…

http://www.latimes.com/news/po.....9732.story

Come on we are all thinking that :) But it cannot be said often enough. I hope to see your post sometime will you put it on a diary at the lake?

How DARE she mention “protecting the constitution”?????

Introductory remarks — mentions that Donna Edwards is here and the crowd goes nuts.

Same here.

Yeah why are so many people clapping are they pumping Happy Gas in here?

Good Morning Blue Tex and Firedogs ,

someone help a sista out and tell me how to get the live feed again ?

Morning, firepups. I’m watching the NN stream too.

Too bad someone doesn’t have a printout of Hugh’s list to stretch out and hand to her.
That would be priceless.

Go here: http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/982

Hi, Busted!

From Philly: I hope someone will ak her if she allowed FISA to the floor to cover up her own knowledge of wiretapping and other crimes

As we witness not just Republicans, but also Democrats in Congress, acting repeatedly to immunize executive branch lawbreaking and to obstruct investigations, it’s vital to keep that fact in mind. With regard to illegal Bush programs of torture and eavesdropping, key Congressional Democrats were contemporaneously briefed on what the administration was doing (albeit, in fairness, often in unspecific ways). The fact that they did nothing to stop that illegality, and often explicitly approved of it, obviously incentivizes them to block any investigations or judicial proceedings into those illegal programs.

In December of last year, The Washington Post revealed:

Four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.

So far as I can tell, she’s implicated and someone should ask her if that’s true.

“They are tired of war ” are there leaders using war to avoid the issues (sorry didn’t catch that word for word) still is she so deluded that she doesn’t know that she is talking about herself.

Good morning TOW!
We’re up early, aren’t we?

thanks !

Jim do you see all the other people holding up the Consitution

Question time. Woo!

Pelosi concedes Democrats were sent to end war. Says the President has more control over wars than Congress.

First question is about impeachment.

4 cops moving to the back of the room

God bless you, lady. I wish I said hi to you @ the caucus meeting — still here?

Yes, goofy political junkies that we are. :D

… code pink in the back holding up peace signs. One in a Bush mask.

Oh good grief. Is her nose growing yet?

Standing 50 -75 ft behind Code Pink who are all standing up

I’ll be back later today. Currently getting angry and outraged from bed.

“If Karl Rove continues to be in contempt, will you arrest him?”

HUGE applause.

Pelosi: “As Mr. Conyers said, ‘Leave it up to me.’” Punts.

Nancy said cred I think she is taking one of my words.

hahahahahahahaha
take good care of yourself…mokay?

Pelosi asked about immunity.

“I went to the Intel Committee to protect civil liberties. I’ll never understand how 17 Democratic sentators gave the Republicans the votes they needed. Our options were limited once 17 Democrats enabled the Republicans.”

YHeah, it’s cool. A photographer from the Austin Satatesman just took a lot of pix and tookmy name!

Pelosi-”As Mr. Conyers said, “Leave it up to me.”"

Way to avoid answering the question. Then again, maybe she didn’t want to announce ahead of time they do plan to arrest his ass.

*grumble, grumble* I need more coffee.

Where is Marcy I want her opinion on this FISA excuse.

She’s defending the Inspector General provisions. “Our bill was the good bill.”

Hard to type with one arm in the air.

yes, blame the senate nancy. that’ll work.

she’s so full of shit.

Remember what the Clash told us: Let fury have the hour/ anger can be power/ d’you know that you can use it?

and what about your democrats in the House Nancy, including Steny Hoyer, who brought this back from the dead?

“A day of taint for how you cooperated with the administration.” *suppresses giggle*

Jerky hand gestures very rapid eye movement but she has that blank look on her face Reagen used to get when he believed his own lies.

oh my,how the mighty have fallen…disgusting

No kidding.
She is the freaking Speaker and she is trying to tell me she is basically powerless.
Bullshit.

you MUST be mistaken,he is a patriot,he wears a flag lapel pin

OT-Spencer, I love the titles of your posts and music references. The posts too, of course, but the titles are great.

same SHIITE different day methinks

“These are the reasons I’m voting for the bill, but I’m not asking anyone else in Congress… to follow my lead.” What a deliberate wink-and-nod attempt to get us to ignore how parliamentary democracy actually works.

Pelosi: “I have serious sadness over two things. One, that they sent us the FISA bill. And two, we couldn’t overcome the 60 votes to end the war in Iraq.”

why isn’t there more OUT LOUD protest and screams of LIAR LIAR?

3 cops by the door one 50 ft behind code pink

“I went to the Intel Committee to protect civil liberties. I’ll never understand how 17 Democratic sentators gave the Republicans the votes they needed. Our options were limited once 17 Democrats enabled the Republicans.”

The House bill which she connived with Steny Hoyer over was passed first in the House. Reid and the Senate simply agreed to that bill. Shorter version: She’s lying.

Gina announced at the beginning that anyone who disrupted the discussion woul dbe removed from the room and their credentials taken away.

“The bigger our victories, the more bipartisan.” My friends at the ThinkProgress table LOL’d.

I am utterly taken aback at what a liar she is, and worse, how STUPID she thinks her audience is.

Like Spencer says at 76, “What a deliberate wink-and-nod attempt to get us to ignore how parliamentary democracy actually works.” I mean, does she really think her audience is THAT ignorant?

I’m glad I’m not there, I’d be dragged out.

Oy.

Pelosi asked what the vision of the Democratic Party should be. “First responsibility to protect the American People.”

Feh.

It’s because her face doesn’t much move; so much more obvious on the live link.

“Remember four words: science, science, science and science.” I don’t know if it’s my hangover, but this is kind of hilarious.

O man, Think LBJ or Sam Rayburn. I hope that doesn’t sound sexist.

Nancy is trying to bore us by long winded off answers that make you forgot what the original question was. Heck I am experiencing Eternity now one second at a time.

The ultimate Bush/Cheney/neocon agenda. How Orwellian!

Pelosi is giving a very long answer to the question about what Democrats believe, but it’s a lot of pretty pragmatic policy proposals. Health care, science, infrastructure…

I would really like someone to ask the following as responsibly as possible;

“if president bush has not committed impeachable offenses, do impeachable offenses exist?”

or better;

“what exactly would be an offense that would put impeachment back on the table?”

that second one should have been asked a long time ago becuase if it had, the speaker would have no choice but to impeach since he certainly committed anything the speaker might have come up with

Pelosi: “I have serious sadness over two things. One, that they sent us the FISA bill. And two, we couldn’t overcome the 60 votes to end the war in Iraq.”

Again she is Speaker of the House, not Majority Leader of the Senate. Why does she keep talking about the Senate? Misdirection. They could have simply kept submitting the same bill giving money to the military but only for the removal of American troops from Iraq, changing a comma here or a semicolon there. It would have been the Republicans who were refusing to fund the troops. Needless to say, the Democrats and Pelosi did not do this. They caved instead.

Enforced courtesy to Madame Speaker. Nice. They won’t listen to us. They won’t speak with us. But we have to sit there and listen politely to HER? I am very glad I am NOT there.

someone should tell her he American people are best protected by defending the constitution.

She really sucks. I don’t think she realizes that her bipartisan remark was a flop.

And why is she giving a campaign speech?

It’s not your hangover.

this is embarassing, I’ve registered, logged on, and still no feed

oh well, will follow along with y’all

I really want nancy to go, I hold her responsible for everything this president has done to this country from the day she became speaker of the house, she has been an accomplice and a party in crime

Pelosi asked what the vision of the Democratic Party should be. “First responsibility to protect the American People.”

Can’t protect the people if you don’t protect the Constitution first.

BoTox are you sure I think she is just lying anybody know for sure I grant you she looks like a plastic surgery user so maybe she does use botox.

Faiz at TP confirms the morning’s hot rumor: Al Gore is going to speak here this morning.

This much talking for one question? Which she is not really answering girls running out the clock!

Pelosi filibustering Q&A.

“fiscally sound”. Funny how being “fiscally sound” only matters for stuff like health care.
bailing out Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Bear Stearns with taxpayer money? blank checks for iraq? that’s OK. But when it comes to healthcare, oh we need to make sure it’s fiscally sound.

she’s full of it.

Did you click on the little TV screen? That gets it started. Or, the capacity may be filled.

Oh, lordy, I thought this was a progressive gathering, not a Bush by-invitation-only event. My bad!

She’s in Exhibit Hall 4. Are you on the page with all the feeds available? There are 5 or 6, although the others aren’t active yet.

yup, that’s EXACTLY what she’s doing. Filibustering.

me too…she is PERPETUALLY #2 like Avis,cept spinning rather than TRYING harder

Is it just me? I’m having a hard time listening to Madame Speaker….how can anyone spin the Constitution?

WORD

Sweetie, just click the link here, No need for anything else.
http://www.netrootsnation.org/node/982

No Im not sure; but her face looks like a mask. Funny, I do not even usually notice, but she is starting to look like the NY cat woman.

she is a true PATRITION…..only those of her ilk matter,sad that

Okay, naive question-asker here. Been missing a lot of threads lately. Why is NN being called “TraitorFest.” (Hides to avoid seeing eye rolls.)

according to my feed .. only 379 viewers at present

I don’t think she realizes that her bipartisan remark was a flop.

This traditional politicians live in a world of their own making. So she invokes bipartisanship, and completely fails to realize that “bipartisanship” as practiced by the Democrats is synonymous with “caving” and “selling out”.

Why aren’t questioners more focused or follow up on each other?

I alternate between deciding to go back to sleep or getting dressed to go down there with protest signs hidden all over.

Crowd Pink and Nixon mask guy in prison black and white stripes are walking around can’t find the other 3 cops I hope they embarrass Nancy.

“universal ACCESS to quality reliable healthcare”.

I LOVE the language games to make things sound like they’re not what they are.

Not universal health care for all, but “universal access” to healthcare.

nah, it was me in my undercaffeinated state.

thanks RevBev (ps - we need to include you in our central texan e mail list)

and more then half of them from this thread alone?

Pelosi favors responsible sex. Code Pink unpersuaded.

Next question about abstinence-only. Why are they funding it?

(applause)

“Abstinence is a bad policy and its dangerous to the health of our young people. We must have appropriate sex education. Absitence only is an idea that’s dangerous.”

If that’s the case, why are you funding it?

“Well, we need more pro-choice members of Congress.”

Has anyone pointed out to her that we executed General Yamashita for failing to prevent war crimes, when it was his responsibility to do so? Nancy unilaterally suspended the portion of the Constitution designed to prevent such presidential misbehavior.

yah,and this is OUR TEAM?

I agree her face does look like a mask

Someone FINALLY jumps in to ask a follow up, about abstinance-only earmarks. Pelosi: “We need more pro-choice members of congress.”

I am on the Austin Codepink mailing list and didn’t see any coordinated effort for today. But maybe something was done more privately.

imo .. pelosi is clueless .. the “big picture” can’t ever be acheived when the nuts and bolts parts go lacking ..