If you’re like me (and I know I am) you’re having a tough time keeping up with all the prog-bloggers in Denver. The reports come thick and fast from our own FireDogLake team, from Pam and her team, from Aravosis and his team, from the Bilerico team.
Digby had a wonderful report on Hillary’s speech last night; she ended with a story I want to share with FDL.
It encapsulates so much of what’s wrong with the hierarchy of the Congressional Democratic party.
As a personal aside, I have a telling anecdote to share about the evening. I was waiting at the elevator at the Pepsi center with Julie Bergman Sender, who is shooting a film of the convention, when we were rather brusquely pushed aside by a couple of security guys and told to wait. A large entourage of big men in black suits came marching down the hallway and I thought, this has to be somebody really, really important like Al Gore or Bill Clinton. After all, politicians are casually hobnobbing all over the place this week. Only the biggest names have this kind of security.
It was Steny Hoyer.
Why would he need that kind of security in the friendly environs of the Democratic National Convention, of all places?
Oh wait …
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If you’re like me (and I know I am)
Thank goodness someone isn’t schizophrenic like I am!
(((Badger))
Steny.. the D Cheney.
I guess he knows he important.
Some people think they are hot shit on a log when they aren’t a cold fart on a twig
Seriously, what is he afraid of and who’s paying for this protection? He’s not a constitutional officer, as Majority Leader of the House. Maybe they were ATT goons.
steny: he buys his position at very high cost (in terms of electoral success and electoral moment-2006), and sells cheaply to ATT and the phonecos.
New Mexico yielding now to Illinois, MSNBC predicts.
steny hoyer = blech
Yeah and Steny has his staff trying to claim that he didn’t know he was the “guest of honor” at the ATT wing-ding the other night.
Anybody wanna buy a bridge?
Mayor Daley gives a shoutout for the summer Olympics in 2016.
Well, the fact that CBS Evening News actually covered this issue really caught my eye:
New McCain Ad Badly Distorts Obama’s Words About Iran
and Illinois has just yielded to New York
HRC on the floor now as Daley yields to New York.
Sheldon Silver passes the mike to HRC.
Move for acclamation
Very nice way of asking for acclamation by HRC.
HRC moves to suspend the rules and the rollcall vote, and that Barack Obama be selected by acclimation as the nominee of the Democratic Party.
Applause.
I’d be willing to wager that Kennedy wasn’t accompanied by a contingency of goons
She could not be more gracious than to do this. I do not recall any vanquished candidate doing this, in my memory.
wow.
Well done.
Very well done.
folks wanted drama and unity…they got both
Didn’t hear any nos on the acclamation vote
Barack is official now.
Classy. Very classy. I’m pleased.
Bill Richardson often has a pack of big guys wearing suits around him. Like at Lobo basketball games.
Speaking of progressive blogs in Denver, please visit calitics for a California perspective this week, and afterwards as well….
Not unusual but not often done in the middle of the vote. Usually it has been a motion but the losing candidate or surrogate after the voting has ended that the delegates accept the nominee by acclamation.
Oh they are playing ‘love Train’
and don’t forget indymedia for news from the streets of denver.
Roll Calls still give me goose bumps. Now to answer you question, Kennedy had an entourage of doctors accompanying him.
Well, yeah, sure — but this is a Democratic convention, and Steny is (ostensibly) a Democrat, so who is he afraid of, exactly?
Sounds like it in keeping with this story:
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5668622
And Kerry didn’t say anything about what was happening in the streets in N.Y.; personally, I agree with Rick McArthur:
http://www.democracynow.org/20….._president
It’s past time for efforts to really have democracy be integral to this representative republic.
From the stage, yes. But it looked very nice coming from the floor, I think.
I wonder how the Very Important Pundits will spin this to McCain’s favor…
Oh and by the way Steny, Leave Digby alone!
Me too. And this one just gave me a bit of a lump in my throat… And I wasn’t even a Hillary supporter.
First time I’ve ever watched the delegate votes…….thank goodness for C-Span coverage to get the real effect.
Naw……Dems ain’t got no unity. s/
Sen. Schmuk Schumer—why we are stuck with Casey in PA and several other DINOs.
Not to mention Mike Mukasey.
Thanks a bunch.
I believe that Chuck Schumer will now introduce the Senate challengers onstage (so of course MSNBC cuts away to David Gregory interviewing Dick Durbin on the convention floor, still goading on the divided-Democrats theme).
Switching to CSPAN here.
I see nothing unusual about this either. Hoyer is after all the second ranking asshole in the House of Representatives.
Yeah. This is undeniably good news for McSprinkles
i’m speechless!!
So, do you think Chucky will give a shout-out to Dr. Dean and his 50-state-strategy? Show of hands, please… Anyone… Never mind…
That is quite understandable
“Ladies and gentlemen…We have a Nomination!”
Wow! Great touch! The West Coasters won’t get it in Prime Time…But it was going to be live in a lot of the “battleground states” and that is fine in my book!
And they wonder why people regard police as the enemy! Just another example of the Police State’s idea of “To Serve & Protect”. They really do need a motto change to something more appropriate, perhaps “To Bully & Harass”. Maybe something along the lines of “Just Waiting To Fuck You Over” is better. And worse yet we pay these people.
Hunter on Payment for Services Rendered.
ATT only has to throw a couple of kewl parties to get Steny and the Blue Dogs to do whatever they want.
Disgusting.
Obviously, Steny fears contact with DFH bloggers.
Good catch.
Bob in HI
does anyone know of/have a link to hillary’s speech from last night? (video, not text.) my sister missed it and i would like to make it available to her if it’s out there.
thanks,
itunkala
Aravosis gives me the willies.