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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:19 PM Jul 2012

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes a Cato Institute rep to the woodshed - Disclose Act Hearings

From my email...

Last week, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) showed why he's a national progressive rising star.
At a hearing on overturning Citizens United, Sen. Whitehouse faced an "expert" from the right-wing Cato Institute who advocated more anonymous campaign spending by corporations and billionaires. Whitehouse took him "to the proverbial woodshed," according to one news site.

You can attend a nation-wide conference call (and learn more) with Sen Whitehouse by clicking here.

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Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes a Cato Institute rep to the woodshed - Disclose Act Hearings (Original Post) Scuba Jul 2012 OP

Rhode Island, where even Republicans tend to be liberal. longship Jul 2012 #1

Those were the days, longship. elleng Jul 2012 #5

Kick and Rec. lamp_shade Jul 2012 #2

k&r.. spanone Jul 2012 #3

Sounds like a future Presidential candidate to me nikto Jul 2012 #4

The names even write the ad, don't they? Sounds like a wonderful ticket to me. freshwest Jul 2012 #6

Excellent piece. Thanks for showing us what's going on to slap down the Kochs. freshwest Jul 2012 #7

My favorite Senator madokie Jul 2012 #8

Well done, Senator Whitehouse. salin Jul 2012 #9

K&R. pacalo Jul 2012 #10

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Rhode Island, where even Republicans tend to be liberal.

Reply to Scuba (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:48 PM

Jul 2012

At least in the past.

I was a proud Democratic officer in a big county party in KS in the 90's. But I voted for a Republican for US Senator twice, namely Nancy Landon Kassebaum, who was one of those wonderful Senators who made party irrelevant.

FYI, after she retired from the Senate, she married another former Republican Senator for whom I have some respect, Howard Baker (TN), who was prominent in the Senate Watergate Hearings, which everybody watched on TV because the networks preempted all their programming to cover. Baker is the Senator who coined the question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?" during those hearings. It became the very question which brought down Nixon's presidency.

Certainly, a suitable spouse for the former Senator from Kansas. Both were highly ethical and laudible statesmen. (Forgive the gender bias; it just doesn't trip off the tongue to say statespersons.)