Frist going NUCLEAR on CSPAN2 right now!!

[MadisonProgressive]

[ewagner]

1. Turning it on now.....

be right back........

[Hobarticus]

2. And so let slip the dogs of war...and wave your presidential aspirations

bye-bye while you're at it, Doc.

[jsw_81]

113. To the contrary

This is the moment when Frist -- who should know better than to pull this kind of crap -- becomes the patron saint of the religious reich, alongside Saints Bush, Roberston, Falwell and Scalia. He'll have an excellent shot at the nomination come 2008.

[BrainRants]

3. Bring it on asshole! Bring it on!

Today is the day your presidential aspirations die!

[tridim]

4. Too much stuff going on today

It's hard to keep up.. Is Frist cashing in on info overload?

[Dinger]

41. A Lot Of These "Events" (KKKRove-planned) Look Quite Orchestrated,

don't they?

[FreedomAngel82]

65. They do

It's how they work. If they keep enough stories going on they can get done what they REALLY want.

[wryter2000]

5. Damn!

I've probably missed it by now. I have the Bolton committee meeting on now.

What happened? Did Dr. Death sink himself? Please tell?

[BrainRants]

8. Still blathering...

n/t

[quiet.american]

10. Still on -- C-Span2 n/t

[beyurslf]

6. I thought he was waiting till next week....

[MadisonProgressive]

12. I don't know when it will start but in a nutshell

he said that he would decide how long debate can last for each nominee, and then will be cut off to have a up or down vote.

He's also lying like crap about most everything he says!

Bye bye, President Frist

[PRETZEL]

35. Phase II of the Bolton Debate,

My opinion this is setting the stage for the Bolton nomination vote when it gets to the floor (which seems a possibility now). By saying he's going to limit debate and call for a quick vote that'll squelch any attempt by the Dems to bring out the reasons against the nomination.

[FreedomAngel82]

68. Thank God for that

Now we can save the kitties. ;)

[MADem]

13. Michael Jackson, Air France flight diverted

Best time to steal anything (including democracy) is when people are looking the other way.

[elehhhhna]

108. You forgot Pinecones.

[dogday]

7. How can he stand there and say that crap?

Lying bastard

[otohara]

11. He's A Republican

they lie...

[MADem]

9. Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson!!!!

Pay no attention to the asshole in the Senate....all Michael, all the time!!!!!!

What a creepy fuck in his red 'power' tie...he's bitching about partisanship, and the GOP wrote the book on it. Cheesy, catkilling bastard.

[FreedomAngel82]

72. So let me ask something

how is it partisanship if they're taking away the debate for the democrats? Yep, being partisan alright. :eyes:

[hippiechick]

14. Y'know, some DETAILS would be nice ...

... for those of us stuck in cubeland ..... :freak:

[MADem]

18. WATCH LIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER, here

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

[BrainRants]

15. WTF is he talking about?

1 out of 3 of the presidents nominees have been filibustered?

LIAR!

[beyurslf]

That is Republican Math. It is a complicated system of simple math with

multiplying, dividing, algorithims, algreba, geometery... mix in some chemistry and then just pull out whatever numbers you want. Democrats don't get it.

[FreedomAngel82]

73. Yep

It's like them saying 2+2 is 32.

[elehhhhna]

109. ...And 1/3 of your Soc Sec contribution is 2%. Yep. Fuzzy math.

[BrainRants]

16. Saying this is holding up the senate from getting other work done.

blaming others.

[FreedomAngel82]

75. Oh good grief

How many times did they keep the democrats from doing work in Clinton's years? And they can do God knows what. Look what happened with the Real ID act. They knew if they didn't attach that bill to the military bill they would've never gotten it passed. :mad:

[quiet.american]

17. You know what -- we're watching political suicide, live. n/t

[BrainRants]

19. Harry Reid up now...

[dogday]

20. What's up with his voice?

[quiet.american]

23. It's the "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" touch n/t

[Pithy Cherub]

21. reid on... clark kent into superman moment....

:popcorn:

[lenidog]

22. This SUCKS!!

I don't have C-Span 2, I am currently watching the House and its just everyone talking about Homeland Security on the floor of the House.

[Ivote]

25. Try Here

www.c-span.org
click on the link to watch or listen
you can use windows media or real player

[lenidog]

37. Thank You

[Dinger]

24. Please,THelp The"Cube Rats" If You're Watching : )

Pleeeeeeeeeease

[ElsewheresDaughter]

47. Reid: we have made concession to the majority leader.......

on the judicial nominees that we would accepts 5 of the nominees but will not accept the others."

Frist: "we want ALL the nominees and will not agree to minority leaders concession"

Reid: "i would hope the majority leader will be reasonable with these concessions and if not than there will be a show down sometime next week"

Byrd: many of President Clinton's nominees weren't even allowed review by the republican controlled senate (64 of them)...what do the american people deserve?...

[Dinger]

54. Thank You Elsewhere'sdaughter : ) (nt)

[elehhhhna]

111. Reids next line should be:

"Screw you, then, I take it back. Forget the 5--and BRING IT ON!"

[Pithy Cherub]

26. reid doesn't know if this can be worked out.

says he has honestly tried with frist.

[MadisonProgressive]

27. Frist won't back down - and if it hasn't already been said

"Bring it on, AHOLE!!!!!"

[rodeodance]

63. ok--Bryd wants more debate next week -right? (for nominee votes)--is this

what the argument is all about?

[FreedomAngel82]

81. Seems to me like it can't be

This makes them look bad and they don't give a damn. I love how Frist is looking like a madman and the democrats are so calm, cool and collected with this battle and being the rational one. Frist looks like a mad-man hungry with power and he's not getting his way. Frist interupted Byrd and he's like "let me finish my sentence." I love the route the democrats are going with this. :popcorn: How much you wanna bet that Frist is going to do the "nuclear option" anyways? Now he's using the Bible. Yeah!

[democracyindanger]

28. How did this reach the floor?

It seems that they're talking about the nuclear option, but this isn't going to be an actual vote. Did Reid start this debate today, or what? Just want to know the parlimentary detail for today.

[MadisonProgressive]

30. Yes, they are just talking about it

I jumped the gun a bit, but Frist would look like a complete idiot if he backed off after the rhetoric he spewed today.

[MadisonProgressive]

29. If Frist goes ahead and bypasses the normal process for changing

Senate rules, isn't what he is doing non-binding?

[rodeodance]

31. Byrd looks ready to pounce (or open his wings and fly)

[Pithy Cherub]

32. byrd questioning frist

byrd says what's wrong with questioning. frist attempting to answer. owens, brown should be considered and laying out his view of their qualifications. :puke:

[BrainRants]

33. Did you catch Frist's "sharecroppers daughter" plug

Frist is tapdancing, Reid & Byrd sounding reasonable trying to resolve matter...

[quiet.american]

43. Yep -- shameless! n/t

[rodeodance]

34. Reid saying he is going to work with Frist next few days.

[rodeodance]

38. Byrd wants to end this now and Reid is repremending him (gentlemen-like)

[quiet.american]

36. "Showdown!" -- Reid

[rodeodance]

40. Byrd saying we need statesmanship--he is so "pained" by this all.

[rodeodance]

44. "up & down vote" Byrd keep mocking the phase-saying he heard Bush

say it too.

[ewagner]

50. F-ing Frist

...interrupts to say that he never said the word "showdown"

lying POS....

[wicket]

39. can someone give an update for the cuberats?

thanks :)

[BrainRants]

42. Byrd: What we need is not partisanship, but statesmanship!

n/t

[rodeodance]

48. Frist going on a crying tantum. Byrd holding up the Constitution

[rodeodance]

53. Byrd saying [to deny a vote does NOT require a vote (advice and con-

sent phase in Constitution)--saying the denying comes thru Senators via the committee that does not let a nominee come thru.

[rodeodance]

55. Bryd--saying "lets do what the Constitution SAYS" instead of always

stating--what do the nominees deserve!!

[FreedomAngel82]

86. I think it's great

how Frist is looking like a mad-man he is and people can view this and see their fearless leader looking like a power-hungry madman and the democrats are so cool. ;)

[burythehatchet]

45. Byrd Vs. Frist GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK

Fristula couldn't carry Byrd's depends.

[dandrhesse]

46. phone lines jammed at DC office here are the numbers for Tenn

615-352-9411

423-756-2757

423-323-1252

901-683-1910

731-424-9655

865-637-4180

[Extend a Hand]

71. The Tennesse phone numbers are open

I had no problem getting through! :(

[quiet.american]

49. Frist now perverting Constitution n/t

[quiet.american]

52. Byrd schooling him on what Constitution really says. n/t

[BrainRants]

51. Byrd holding up copy of constitution

asking "does this document say anything about an up or down vote?"

Frist responding

"No, the language is not there, it's the language we use. It says advise and consent."

Oooh!!!!

"I'm a tremendous supporter of the filibuster"

BLAM!

[quiet.american]

56. "What do the American people deserve!" - Sen. Byrd n/t

[quiet.american]

58. Work that Constitution, Sen. Byrd! n/t

[rodeodance]

59. does Byrd not want Reid to 'negoiate"? I missed the beginning of this.

[quiet.american]

61. It's more he wants Frist to stop the nonsense. n/t

[dandrhesse]

57. two more numbers

202-224-2514

202-224-3135

both for senate majority leaders office

let's make sure that these don't stop ringing all afternoon!

[quiet.american]

64. "Tradition means FREEDOM OF DEBATE!" -- Sen. Byrd n/t

[quiet.american]

66. Frist asked for it --

Sen. Byrd citing freedom of speech from time of William and Mary in the 1600's.

[quiet.american]

69. Sen. Byrd now up to the 1800's and 1917. n/t

[Tippy]

67. I got through to the Nashville office tried two others

but got an ansewering machine...

[Pithy Cherub]

60. byrd is home schooling frist on the constitution

Byrd: here we are wrangling over a half dozen judicial nominations...
There many in this country who are well able to do this. "This threat, the so called-nuclear option - I have the floor and I am going to say a few things today... Constitutional folly! I have the floor... GO Byrd!

[funflower]

82. I think they skipped Con Law in medical school

[BrainRants]

62. Byrd going off!

"Majority leader wants to refer to it as the Constitutional Option , I refer to it as the constitutional folly"

Keeps calling it Nuclear option, Frist getting jumpy, wants to cut in. Byrd says "No, I have the floor"

[FreedomAngel82]

88. So much for

respecting your elders eh?

[Idioteque]

70. I think Sen. Byrd knew Aaron Burr personally n/t

[quiet.american]

74. Byrd to Frist -- Don't leave destroying freedom of speech as your legacy

[MadisonProgressive]

106. Damn, we need to keep Byrd around for awhile - he's awesome!

[Dinger]

115. LONG Live Senator Byrd!!!!!! (nt)

[quiet.american]

76. Frist now fristi-fying as to what freedom of speech means

[quiet.american]

78. Frist badgering Byrd about what he said to Shrub. n/t

[wicket]

91. what did Bryd say to shrub?

sorry- cuberat here!

[quiet.american]

98. Frist tried to get Byrd to admit he told Shrub --

-- he had no problem with an up or down vote.

Byrd told Frist if Frist couldn't remember what was said, neither could he. -- and that he may have agreed to an up or down vote on some of the nominees but not all -- and he certainly didn't agree to shutting down freedom of speech in the Senate.

[rodeodance]

104. thanks!! that was a good one from Byrd.

[Pithy Cherub]

77. frist is rattled!

Freedom of speech now he is going to STUPIDLY engage Byrd on Freedom of Speech...

[Extend a Hand]

79. kicking an nominating ...

lets keep these phone numbers visible!

[quiet.american]

80. Frist trying to perpetrate "nuclear distraction" on Byrd. n/t

[quiet.american]

83. Love it -- Byrd filibustering Frist right now! n/t

[Idioteque]

85. Sen. Byrd is giving the catkiller a lesson from the Bible!

I'm loving this!!

[FreedomAngel82]

90. My favorite line

was "I'm a born-again. But I don't go around talking about it that much." It was something like that. Basically he was saying he wasn't bragging and using religion. ;)

[quiet.american]

93. Amen. n/t

[rodeodance]

97. missed that one-thanks

[Skidmore]

84. Byrd just became a born again Baptist preacher...

Go, Bobby Byrd! Teach Frist about constitutional rights and what it means to be a Christian while you're at it.

[quiet.american]

87. "Hear me all you Evangelicals!!" -- Sen. Byrd -- lol

[FreedomAngel82]

95. LOL

I liked that.

[Pithy Cherub]

99. ROFL! Go Byrd GO! HEAR ME....

:rofl: & Held up the bible and MOCKED the KJ version users...

[rodeodance]

92. byrd says he does not the Sentors to be in straighjackets.

[rodeodance]

94. "Let reason reign in the US Senate" says Byrd

[Skidmore]

89. I think Byrd just called Frist a

"Haman". Hahaha!!! Oh, that man has a subtle and sharp wit.

[dandrhesse]

114. I called Byrd's office and told them it was too classic, Byrd reading

from the book of Ester to Frist in the Senate. Talk about being beat at your own game. If it was Senator Byrd's objective to point out what a fool Frist is making of himself, then he succeeding resoundingly.

[wryter2000]

96. Thanks, all

Great play-by-play.

[rodeodance]

100. "how much land does a man need"? =how many nominees does a man

want--whow what a story!!

[rodeodance]

101. the man in the end gets 6ft by 6ft by 2 feet--death.

[rodeodance]

102. Chair has ruled that the Byrd Amendment is not germaine. guess Byrd

must have put forth an amendment but byrd says he will accept the decison by the Chair.

[GRLMGC]

103. Man, I could never be a Senator

I probably would have punched him in the face already. It IS a punchable face, after all.

[Number_6]

105. Ought to be illegal...

To do what the Rethugs do, just submit trashy laws or nominees over and over again until they get the vote they want. Fristian and the Fascists are upset because Dems are upset because these nominees were monsters the first time, they are monsters the second time...ad infinitum. Rethugs, like Al Qaeda, are patient and will keep plotting, keep trying. As with evolution in Kansas School Board. Senator Byrd wittily pointed out that there are lots of qualified judge candidates, why does * keep submitting the same ones? Jon Stewart asks the question about * Nominees, "Doesn't he know very many people?"

[MadisonProgressive]

110. That's the problem

There are probably 100's of qualified people, but apparently only 6-10 qualified sheeple!

[Pithy Cherub]

107. Lott now giving his twit like views on this

:puke: says he's not a constituional scholar...this has been going on for 30 or 40 years does that have a place in the senate!...blah blah blah estrada blah blah

[tavalon]

120. He's a Senator

He should fucking well learn about that little piece of paper. Not a constitutional scholar? Then it's high time we fire your sorry ass!

[Tux]

112. Is there

A direct link to the RealPlayer file? My PC freezes each time I click CSPAN's links to listen/watch it live.

[sabra]

116. try the windows media version

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

[Tux]

117. Got Linux?

I do and I refuse to use Windows for religious reasons.

[Skidmore]

118. Are you a

fundamentalist? :)

[SeanQ]

119. Upgraded to RealPlayer 10.5

And it still doesn't work under Linux. Everywhere else I've used realplay without a problem, so I suspected it's a problem with their HTML.

So I looked through the source and found the streams URL:
http://play.rbn.com/?url=cspan/g2cspan/live/cspan2-g2.rm&proto=rtsp&plugin=1?embed

Copy that link and, in realplay, go to File->Open Location and paste it in. That worked for me and I was able to watch the stream. A little late for todays fun, but there you go!

Tux rocks! ;)