c-span - pelosi and dems press conference

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

[jean]

1. here's a link

http://www.cspan.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS


edit: it's over.

[AndyA]

2. What was said?

I couldn't get a stream from C-Span.

[jean]

4. sorry - I only found out about it a few minutes before they ended. cspan will

likely replay it - they mentioned it was 40-some minutes long.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

5. it was almost over when i posted. i came to it late.

but their banner said "a new direction" whatever that means these days.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

3. it's over. c-span taking calls - how would you grade congress?

[EST]

6. I watched it until nine fifteen.

You didn't miss much. They seem to be making the most of a bad situation, but their bragging about all the things they've done, in the face of their abject failures, seems to be ludicrous to the point of indecency...or mental illness.

For instance, they're bragging about bringing about the much ballyhooed minimum wage increase, ignoring the fact that it is not yet-if ever-an actual law.

I would have been more enthusiastic had they come across with something like, "Y'know, we did some good and were sorely frustrated in almost everything we tried. The obduracy and out-and-out obstructionism by vile-minded republicans, intent on an open attempt to make life difficult and making us look as bad as possible seemed to be the overwhelming result of almost every session.
"We haven't done much, but we did do some and it was more people and good government oriented than anything the publickers have done in many years. We promise to work even harder, if that's possible, and to do our very best to prevent our democratic republic from becoming a dictatorship. Please stick with us a little longer."

And then shut up and go home for a few days.