Senate saturday session starting now - CSPAN2

[Greeby]

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

[PDJane]

1. Thanks much!

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. Will ANY Senator SCREAM about the spying

bullshit? :grr:

[joanski0]

5. Frist is still yaking. Then there will be a

period for morning business. Hopefully, some of the Dem Senators will talk about it.

Frist says he expects a short session today. No votes today or tomorrow. Monday, he expects to have the House bills, Defense Authorization, etc, and expects a very busy day with the votes starting early.

Frist said he didn't know yet if any questionable provisions have been (or will be added, I assume by Ted Stevens for drilling in the Artic)yet, since the bill has not been passed by the House yet.

Frist talking about Avian flu now.

[katinmn]

7. If they ever get the floor, I expect them to

Feingold and Durbin were on CNN and MSNBC.

Byrd must be beside himself with anger.

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Oh I'm sure

I'm listening to Randi's Friday show and she played Byrd's speech and it was so wonderful and passionate and you could tell he was really angry in his voice. Thank God for him and others like him.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. Oh YEAH! The FUCKING Bird Flu! Of course THAT

would be Frist's first issue! STOOOPID me. :eyes:

[katinmn]

4. Thanks!

Uggh. Frist on the pandemic.

[doublethink]

6. Frist 'Spanish Flu' ...... didn't mention the year 1918.

oh boy. The pharmaceutical industry must be paying him well. :crazy:

[joanski0]

10. Yes. I heard Dennis Kucinich say, in his

one minute speech on the floor this afternoon, that the Repukes have snuck a provision into the House Bill giving liability immunity to the big Pharmas because one of the companies is using vaccine containing something called MF59 (I think that's what he said). He said that was the stuff that was in the contaminated flu vaccine last flu season. I don't think I will be getting any of their stinkin' flu shorts.

Stupid Cornyn running his mouth now about the Patriot Act.

[doublethink]

16. These guys never stop thinking of ways to 'spin' things do they.

Thanks for that little update and info on Kucinich's insight. Without people like him throwing the truth at these hypocrites feet more of us would be in the dark on such things. Peace. :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

68. My local news is pushing those damn flu shots for kids!

December 16, 2005
Study: Flu can kill children quickly, vaccination urged

By LINDA A. JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
One-third of the 153 American children killed by the flu during the 2003-04 season were dead within three days of getting sick, and many of the youngsters were perfectly healthy before they were stricken, government researchers reported.

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=81824

My kids and I have never gotten a flu shot. Mercury and whatever the heck MF59 is.... I'll take my chances with the flu.

[katinmn]

8. K & N.

[katinmn]

9. Cornyn: Clock ticking on Patriot Act

:grr: Let the damn thing expire.

I'm more afraid of total incompetents running our government than I am of terrorists.

[PDJane]

11. I'm listening..........

And can't figure out why, really. What a load of ordure.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

12. Cornyn: civil liberties violations "conspiracy theories"

"pure fantasy"


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051217/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_nsa;_ylt=Ai8iuJBX31i_WvdtTZfXeIis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--">AP: Bush Approved Eavesdropping, Official Says

[katinmn]

13. and he gets 20 minutes...

:argh:

[annabanana]

15. "willful minority"..... upper down, upper down, upper down

He has no repect for a minority blcoking the right to vote... Their standard response to any kind of resistance.

[annabanana]

20. very unnerving that no one answers the phones...

the 'offices' are closed.... but the Senate is in session, and there is always evil afoot during "off hours".

[katinmn]

25. I spoke with Harry Reid's aide earlier.

[joanski0]

19. Cornyn: I do not respect the minority

blocking the majority's right to vote. I suppose now he's going to say "I want an up or down vote".

All the critics have against this bill is speculation, conspiracy theories... Failure of our responsibilities to fail to authorize the Patriot Act.

[The Stranger]

22. Inalienable rights are not subject to majority rule.

They are held by the individual, and the government cannot take them away, even if the vote is 235 million to one.

But John Cornyn is an utter fucking imbecile.

[rodeodance]

113. i would like to smack his face! geech, he gets to me.

[Pachamama]

147. Really? Conspiracy theories? I watched w/ my own eyes the friggin POTUS

say he ordered the spying (without warrants) on US citizens and that he'll do it again...

Conspiracy theorists? No, try REALITY BASED WITNESSES!

:grr:

[tridim]

14. "It's a "conspiracy theory" that the government is removing

civil liberties. People who believe that are delusional" - Paraphrased.

Fucking liar.

[katinmn]

18. Dumb and dumber

[joanski0]

21. That dumb boring fuck just asked for 15 more

minutes -- and he gets it. Why the hell did they even bother to come into session?

[PDJane]

23. Pertectin' Mericans on our own soil.........

disruptin' Al Quaeda plots.........blah, blah, blah.........September 11th, blah blah blah....

Hijacked commercial airplanes........additional 15 minutes.......padilla plot, except he's never been convicted, and the dirty bomb plot was a myth........where are these folks coming from?

And since when did the spying on the US people become a myth???? PARDON???

[Sydnie]

29. Yes, but which is which?

What is Cornyn babbling on about? Obviously he doesn't have a clue what he is talking about ... just killing time. And they give him MORE time to waste! Go Figure!

[katinmn]

24. oh, they gave Cronyn 15 more minutes.

He's reading lists of plots...:boring:

Get off the stage Cronyn. The Senate has business to do.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. ILLEGAL SPYING is a RED HERRING???!!!! as per Cornyn??

What a BASTARD!!!!! Red Herring, MY ASS!

[annabanana]

30. accusing others of trying to insert paranoia

and an unreasonable fear of the loss of civil liberties...

dear god

[in_cog_ni_to]

38. .Their hypocrisy knows no bounds!

If this wasn't so serious, it would be hilarious,

[Gregorian]

27. First ten seconds of listening,

And the dipshit who's up (Crony?) is whining about how the NYT posted the story about Bush's illegal spying, and that is why some senators voted against cloture of the Unpatriotic bill.


Waaaaaaaa.

Fuck you!

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. It's a crying shame that the patriot Act didn't pass because of the NYT.

OMG...what bullshit. Pure garbage. He's saying the prez "briefed" the Senate on the illegal spying. They knew about it.

[rodeodance]

114. well, bush said the NYTimes gave out classified information in his

speech this morning. most of the repugs are just parroting what bush said earlier.

[annabanana]

31. boy they really really really

want absolute power, and they want it NOW...

[joanski0]

34. And now we hear from the most boring

man in the Senate -- Jeff Sessions. Sessions: I urge my colleagues to listen to him (Cornyn).

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. I feel the Nuclear Option coming on....for legislature filibusters.

:scared:

[in_cog_ni_to]

32. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ! Not Sessions!

UUUUUUUGH! I can't STAND that little whiny ass creep. :puke:

[Sydnie]

33. Hey Jeff Sessions -

"Americans and people of America" are the same thing, you ass hat!

The department of redundancy is open for business and can be viewed live on C-Span 2.

[Gregorian]

36. Human polished turds.

If either of these guys showed up at my door, I'd call the sheriff. These guys are UGLY. And shiny.

No more encyclopedia salesmen in government!

edit- These beings are from a mutant gene pool. Please. Someone push them off the face of the planet.

[Opusnone]

37. Cornyn living in a dark world

Wants all citizens to join him.
Doncha know there are terrorists everywhere just waiting to kill us for our freedoms?
Wake up people.
More Americans have been killed by tasers in my city than terrorists.
As a matter of fact, the guy who was shot and killed by marshalls last week at Miami airport was the first "suspect"
that has been taken out.
That makes it Miami 1 - Terrorists 0

I'm sure my typing is being monitored, so hi, guys! Best of the holidays to you and yours.

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. Agent Mike is a member. Say HI! to Agent Mike!

:hi: Hi Agent Mike!

[joanski0]

41. If Russ Feingold is listening to this

exchange between these two boring fucks, he's gotta be asleep by now.

Oh, shit, Corny is going to yield the floor to Sessions.

[rodeodance]

49. I imagine Russ is jumping at the bits!

[rodeodance]

54. Levin is spitting mad about someone trying to insert an unrelated

issue into a conference bill that that had been 'put to sleep"--

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

40. What the fuck is wrong with Sessions?

Is he just incredibly stupid or a really bad liar? (or both)

Investigations of "terror-related activities" are totally different from approved investigations into a specific crime, i.e. tax-evasion cases, as he is referring to.

In the former, there is no specific crime and whatever turns up then becomes the bases of the relatedness to "terror-related activities." In the latter, other evidence has already formed the case.

SAVE US FROM THESE HACKS

[Daphne08]

42. I don't know but Sessions AND Cornyn are among those 9

who voted against the torture amendment!

Those two are scary.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

45. but Cornyn used to be the attorney general of texas!

c'mon he's an extremely hard working senator! lol

[Daphne08]

63. So....... n/t

[ticapnews]

43. Wake me when an intelligible person is speaking (n/t)

:boring::boring::boring::boring:

[doublethink]

44. Levin is up. n.t.

[joanski0]

52. Senator Carl Levin is up.

Sessions is urging Levin to just examine the legislation.

Levin said he has studied it and the differences are very significant.

Levin said he wants to talk about something else. Sen. Warner said that House leadership is considering entering into the conference report an unrelated provision in the Defense Authorization Act. ... The House Leadership wants to add a provision after the Conference Report was signed. We can't possibly operate when they want to add a provision to a conference Report that is already signed. Totally unacceptable process. Warner said he was not going to accept this process. He would filibuster his own bill.

[rodeodance]

46. Levin up now but Session interrupted as said the changes are NOT

significant.

[rodeodance]

47. Levin has to try to set straight all the lies of Sessions and Coryn

[in_cog_ni_to]

50. Did all our Dems stay in DC for the weekend session? Anyone know? n/t

[annabanana]

56. I can't get Clinton or Schumer's people on the phone..

I hope no one left town..

[doublethink]

55. How the FFF........ can the Repubs in the House, or Senate ........

add something onto a Bill after it's been signed, legislation, etc... :wtf: is this a first too? Just who the hell do these people think they are? Just when I thought I heard it all. Peace.

[in_cog_ni_to]

73. They can't! It's ILLEGAL! They are CORRUPT!

INSIDE OUT...CORRUPT!

[rodeodance]

145. that is what Harry R. said--repug Coburn was insulted. te he.

[lostnfound]

149. Often stuff is "quietly added" after debate is closed right BEFORE vote

Like the authorization for certain GOP leaders to inspect anyone's tax returns:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/004115.php

Doubts remained yesterday over exactly how the controversial tax-return provision -- which allows Appropriations Committee chairmen or their "agents" access to Internal Revenue Service facilities or "any tax returns or return information contained therein" -- got into the omnibus spending bill late last week. House Republicans blamed committee staff aides and the IRS.
Rep. Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R-Okla.), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the IRS, denied any role. Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who had referred to the proposal as the "Istook amendment" Saturday, issued a statement expressing regret for "any confusion my earlier remarks may have created.

And Delay's $1.5 billion pork barrel project, added to the energy bill after it passed committee...(Waxman wrote a letter complaining about it: )


http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/27/delay-dirty-tricks/

Tom DeLay thinks the federal treasury is his personal piggy bank. DeLay slipped “a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas” into the energy bill.

But this isn’t a normal case of government pork. DeLay has completely dispensed with the democratic process. From a letter Rep. Henry Waxman just sent Speaker Dennis Hastert:

The provision was inserted into the energy legislation after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.

The $1.5 billion won’t be administered by the government by a private consortium in DeLay’s district:

The subtitle appears to steer the administration of 75% of the $1.5 billion fund to a private consortium located in the district of Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Ordinarily, a large fund like this would be administered directly by the government.

And for a while no one would admit to who slipped the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" into the Homeland Security Bill: http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/12/05/whodunit/?sid=1124126

Everyone in D.C., it seems, is utterly baffled as to how an ugly little provision shielding pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly from billions in lawsuits filed by the parents of autistic children made its way, in the 12th hour, into, of all things, the 475-page Homeland Security bill.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

48. what is Levin referring to!!!?!?!?!

did you hear someone pipe up "Yes it is!" I love it

[annabanana]

53. They have been adding crap

ABOVE the signatures in the conference report!!
This is dicking with it after people have already signed off on it..

This is illegal EVERYWHERE!!

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

57. yeah yeah but what exactly were the bills associated with n/t

[joanski0]

59. The Defense Authorization Bill.

Harry Reid speaking now.

[Patsy Stone]

90. And I believe him

NOT! Sessions is an evil puppet. A tool of business in Alabama. The NeoCon/xenophobic psychosis is just a bonus.

[Gregorian]

51. This is unbelieveable. Levin chastizing.

The repubs mysteriously inserted legislation in a fully signed report.

We're out of control, people. They're violating the law left and right.

[rodeodance]

58. it was 'being considered by the Sen. leadershIp"--did not happen.

[rodeodance]

61. Harry Reid praising Levin but also disqusted at what Frist tried to do.

[rodeodance]

67. sounds like Levin is saying that even Warner would veto his own bill

if Frist somehow managed to insert underhandedly onto the def/ bill.

[rodeodance]

69. Reed also saying Repugs trying to insert a campaign bill into the

intel. bill also.

[katinmn]

70. I think they also tried to attach the meth bill to the Patriot Act!

:silly:

[in_cog_ni_to]

66. Did not happen because the Dems got wind of it...more likely.

These people have to be stopped. Do you have any idea what Warner said last night? I missed his speech. All I caught was Harry Reid PRAISING him for whatever it was he said. Did you hear Warner's speech?

[doublethink]

76. Did they think no-one would see what they tried to add in there?

Thinking congress would scurry off to the holiday recess and not find out or some b.s.? Reminds me of the initial Patriot Act only having a few hours off the press before it was up for vote way back when. Gawwwwwwwwd .......:mad:

[in_cog_ni_to]

60. They are outrageous! UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE!

The House did that on a bill and got caught TOO. Will they never learn?????

[Gregorian]

64. The Pubs tried to tack on ANWR to the defense appropriation bill.

[joanski0]

65. Drilling in Alaska. That's what this is about.

Reid said that this is a corrupt Congress.

[katinmn]

62. Harry Reid.........Absolute power leads to a corrupt Congress

He's so upset he's sputtering a little. :) I can identify.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

71. holy shit i love harry reid

"you are a lot less intelligent than I thought" LMAO

[katinmn]

74. if you allow this, you're a lot less (long pause)

"intelligent than I think you are."

I bet he wanted to say something else but bit his tongue.

[rodeodance]

78. Reed has been publically spanking Frist (house leadership) for 10 minutes

[Gregorian]

72. Reid just nailed Frist

If you can't see the incongruity in inserting the ANWR bill in the defense appropriations bill, then you are a lot less intelligent than I thought you were.


YIKES!

[Individualist]

75. Excellent!

Hit him again, Reid!

[Pithy Cherub]

77. Wow! Frist the new pop up republican punching bag!

Take him Harry! :)

[in_cog_ni_to]

79. shit Sessions again. "I'm sure Reid didn't mean to say Cornyn and

myself are CORRUPT." Harry Reid..."I meant what I said!" :woohoo: YES! YES! YES!

[rodeodance]

81. Cohurn is smaking back (but with his usual arrogance) uga uga.

[joanski0]

Reid said that about Dr. Coburn from

Oklahoma. He was the Presiding Officer at the time. Now Coburn is fussing with Reid.

[annabanana]

80. creepy coburn of OK on now

this guy gives me serious willies

[rodeodance]

82. Reed is correcting OK Sen--told him to check out the rules.

[annabanana]

83. such a polite smack down

(he's good)

[HeeBGBz]

84. Give em hell, Harry.

[rodeodance]

85. now I think both are being 'too gentlemenly"--

[annabanana]

87. heh.. watch out for the next generation

they'll be swinging away like the Koreans...

[in_cog_ni_to]

86. Coburn is calling the changes.."policy directions" which are ALWAYS added

to bills. :eyes: Reid's baaaaaaaaaack.

[rodeodance]

88. Coburn is good at parsing words!

[Patsy Stone]

89. Items added on to an appropriations bill after the fact...

Sneaking ANWAR into Warner's defense bill? Bad, bad, bad.

The hits just keep on coming...

[kentuck]

99. Yeah, they want to make those Democrats fight back...

back 'em into a corner and see if they fight or run...If they vote against the Defense Bill, we'll say they are weak on defense in the upcoming elections. We've got'em on this one. They'll back down. They always do. That seems to be what the Republicans are thinking...

[Patsy Stone]

104. Oh, look.. Now Sessions is trying to backtrack

Well, if Levin and Warner do not agree to the alteration, than it won't get in the bill.

OMG. Who all got caught?

[in_cog_ni_to]

91. Levin's back on the issue of adding material after a report has been

signed. THIS IS HUGE PEOPLE. Their corruption caught up to them. Lindsey Graham on the floor.... Lindsey Graham says..."If you are a lawyer you can get disbarred for doing something like this!" He's standing with the Dems on this! Hot Damn! "This is a defining moment in the Senate."

[G_j]

92. wow Graham! surprise!!

:applause:

[Gregorian]

93. Lindsay Graham not happy either.

Says, you could be disbarred for doing this if you did it while in private practice.


Republicans just don't like playing by the rules. Jeez.

[ticapnews]

94. Lindsey Graham: You could get disbarred for this in private practice

If the Senate allows this to stand it will show itself to be a meaningless rubber stamp for the House leadership and White House. Bill Frist doesn't care, because he still plans to be in the White House in 2009. The Senate better knock this down and fast.

[doublethink]

95. Graham 'R' South Carolina ....... defending Democracy?

:wow: did I just hear that right?

[ticapnews]

96. From time to time he does the right thing.

Not often, but more often than most Republicans.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

98. well he's the one with the live in boyfriend right?

or am i thinking of another one....hmmm

[in_cog_ni_to]

100. He's gay. I don't know if he has a live in boyfriend or not though. n/t

[doublethink]

101. Wow I never expected to tune in to this extended session today .....

and see the early fireworks, more corruption attempted by the Repubs being brought to light. Hope some of this stuff makes it into the MSM through the weekend and on the Sunday morning talk shows tomorrow too. Peace. :)

[in_cog_ni_to]

97. Graham.."This is a low blow and is eating away at the body of the

Senate."

[in_cog_ni_to]

102. As far as Levin knows...this has never happened before! Figures, doesn't

it? Leave it up to these corrupt bastards.

[burythehatchet]

103. someone PLEASE smack session' shit eating grin

off his fucking face. :mad:

ah..ah..ah..ah..ah.. very eloquent you asshat

[Patsy Stone]

106. And he says... "Look over there! It's Abu Gharib!"

Okay. So you didn't like the stuff we tried to stick in the Bill without you noticing? Well, we'll get rid of it then... And, Terra. Terra. Terra.

[rodeodance]

107. "no harm in asking" says Session--he projects a lie--as they did not

ask--they just tried to do it!!!!

[doublethink]

105. Sen 'Sessions' ...... "Ain't no harm in asking" ......

What an idiot, you can't add shit to a contract after it's been signed. And then just phrase it as 'Ain't no harm in asking'. I sign a contract, some idiot adds something on after then I'd see that mo-fo in court. Tell it to the judge, "Ain't no harm in asking" ARRRRRRRGGGgggg. :mad:

[rodeodance]

108. deliberate misrepresentation to the public. shame on you Sessions!

[rodeodance]

109. did you notice--he still tells us there was only bad apples attached to

the abuse at Abu-g.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

115. but the prisoners at abu ghraib weren't being interrogated

see if they were, then they'd REALLY be getting tortured.

They're not enemy combatants according to the Geneva Convention, therefore they have no basic human rights as agreed to in the UN. Terr'ist lover. :eyes:

[doublethink]

125. Yep noticed that too ......

Sessions needs to scurry off my t.v. like pretty quick here. My heads about to explode. My only option may be the mute button till his whinny Fascist self moves along into the night. :crazy:

[PDJane]

110. Excuse me.

Since when did you justify treatment of someone because you arbitrarily put them outside of the terms of the Geneva convention, 'cause they're not military an' they're not civilians, so we can do whatever we want to them?

This is the Hitler justification. They're not really citizens, and they're not really people, and we have to stop the children too......:grr:

[rodeodance]

119. Bush has expanded executive office ---we will all suffer because of it.

[Gregorian]

111. WAAAAA. SESSIONS IS A BIG BABY.

Lookie at what I just made.

[Patsy Stone]

112. Aw shucks, y'all...

We didn't mean anything by it... We just thought you wanted it in there, and we tried to correct the oversight. So, you really meant for it to not be included? Oh, okay, then we'll take it out. There's no harm in asking. Just making sure... Last chance...

Asking implies a question. I don't recall a question, do you?

So dirty.

[rodeodance]

116. my gawd-now sessions repeats the Mantra--up or down vote !

[G_j]

117. how far does one have to dig to find a slimeball like this?

unbelievable

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

120. IT'S A FUCKING TV SHOW YOU ASSHOLE

Oh my god, oh my god. Please save us.

[MadJohnShaft]

124. Maybe he's hoping for a cameo role

(the reference to that Showtime show was very strange)

[G_j]

128. the guy is certifiable.

[G_j]

133. anyone feeling literally ill?

I don't think I watch this anymore

[Patsy Stone]

He's very slimy.

He's also up to his ears in the shoddy construction quality of Manufactured Housing. In addition to being on the inaugural Senate Manufactured Housing Caucus, he was awarded a Golden Fleece award, with his fellow Alabama Senator, Richard Shelby and an Alabama House member, Bob Aderholt, for taking major bucks from big business. Which big business? Why, Manufactured Housing, of course! The three received more money from that industry than any others in Congress. He then helped put the ball in motion for the Caucus to overhaul the safety standards of the industry based on previous Congressional acts. In the course of this, he introduced S. 2145. The crux of that bill is that the Manufactured Housing industry is now able to regulate product safety itself, free of govermental guidelines.

Oy.

I've been reading a lot about him today. He's truly vile. It seems that the wacky wingnuts didn't put him in office, 'twas just big business.

[G_j]

143. that sure fits

vile is right

thanks for the info

[Gregorian]

118. They added that bill so they could blame the Dems for not voting on it.

This means the terrorism funding will lapse. So the dirty little repubs can blame the Dems for it.
This was an attempt to twist the Dems into voting for it, or look bad.

[ticapnews]

121. Sessions: "proof" is too high a standard to justify investigation

Senator, I think you are a terrorist and I am going to report such to the FBI and NSA.

Proof? No, I don't have any proof, but then again, I don't need any...

[rodeodance]

122. he is getting real boring.

[rodeodance]

127. Sessions just said that the Senate was 'ambushed" te he.

[rodeodance]

129. he acted surprized---seems he did not know Feingold had the votes.

[rodeodance]

130. Sessions has finally yielded the floor--puffff.

[rodeodance]

131. now Lindsey Grahm is complaining of critics like the nytimes. te he.

[rqstnnlitnmnt]

137. Graham equated 9/11 with Iraq

paraphrase: the 3000 people who died on 9/11 would think the war in Iraq isn't a "so-called war," but a real war.

Bush yesterday: "There was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the attack of 9/11. I've never said that and never made that case prior to going into Iraq."

[katinmn]

123. Is he still babbling on?

quote: "He sounded like he was doing terrorist talk."

what an idiot

[Gregorian]

126. Sessions is a slick salesman.

He should be selling encyclopedias, not playing with our country.

He walks and talks and looks just like a used car salesman. There's no room in our government for his type.

[PDJane]

138. I have a problem here.

It occurs to me that the conflict in Iraq is an occupation.......the war's over, no? So what the heck is this jerk Graham babbling on about?

It's past time to boot this bunch out.

I have "general understanding"........no. Not good enough.......

[ticapnews]

132. Is Sessions talking about the Patriot Act or the appropriations bill?

It sounds like he was talking about both at the same time...whack job.

Now Graham is back to doing the wrong thing...

Invoked 9/11! BINGO!

[PDJane]

140. You missed it........

that's the fourth time by my count..........

[XOKCowboy]

134. Graham is slimy isn't he?

The War Powers Act makes us look like the ACLU? huh??? He's talking in circles.

[ticapnews]

135. Graham: (in WW2) The infiltrators were caught so we were not infiltrated.

Um...if we weren't infiltrated then there were no infiltrators. If there were no infiltrators how could they get caught?

Welcome to BizarroWorld.

[G_j]

136. is he praising Japanese determent camps

or is it just me?

[ticapnews]

139. Suggesting those in the camps were "infiltrators"

That's a lot of infiltrators...

[G_j]

142. sounded like that

[lostnfound]

150. who's "he"? Cornyn? That wouldn't surprise me.

The man is such a fascist totalitarian creep.

[ticapnews]

141. Jeff, Lindsey, please get a room and stop humping each other on the floor

of the Senate.

Signed,
C-SPAN2 Viewers Nationwide.

[rodeodance]

144. Coburn OK--has this feigned everything about him!! (Hannity must give

his lessons)!!

[katinmn]

146. LOL!

[ticapnews]

148. Ok, where the hell are the senators?

This is the longest quorum call I've ever seen.