They're calling the closed session a "stunt". I say GREAT!

[pdxmom]

Here's the definition of stunt:
1.A feat displaying unusual strength, skill, or daring.
2.Something done to attract attention or publicity.

Either of those definitions is fine with me. I say embrace the idea of it being a stunt. Someone needed to be daring and skillful, and this issue definitely needed to be done to attract the public's attention.

Stunt is a very good word to describe the Dem's action yesterday. I vote for more "stunts" just like it!

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. So was the Boston Tea Party

n/t

[lonestarnot]

2. MO STUNTS MO STUNTS MO STUNTS MO STUNT MO STUNTS!

[whatever4]

3. and I still say two words. Terry Schiavo nm

[Zynx]

4. Exactly. We should use the Republicans shameless stunt on Schiavo

to our advantage. The public hated what they did and we can take advantage of it.

[whatever4]

16. Yes, a vote a night over the weekend, wasn't it?

Didn't they pull together a special session, just for Terry?

How is that not a stunt, after hours, but following the rules during the light of day to call a secret session IS a stunt? NO comparison. Purely political.

Two words. Terry Schiavo. Stunt extraordinaire.

[Zynx]

21. That's exactly what that was. A major league stunt to please the rightwing

[pdxmom]

6. Aren't all the cries of "Terra, Terra, Terra" also stunts?

Seems to me that every time they get in trouble, they come up with some kind of stunt.

Dems need to get better at stunts.

[Jacobin]

5. and outing a CIA operative was a ......what?

"lapse"?
"happy hour parolour trick"?

"treasonous act"?

[Botany]

7. But the Freepers think it will help their side/

<What those stoopit Democrats don't understand is this Lock Down prank will do more to bring the Republicans together than most anything else that could have been done.

I wonder how Bill Frist got Reid to do this? Masterful.>

I couldn't make that up if I tried. :rofl:

[pdxmom]

11. I think that they don't understand the idea that the entire country

isn't made up of Repubs. The far right might well come together, but the mods and indies won't. They want to know what the hell happened, too.

Oh, to live in a world so bereft of reality. Would make it easier to face the day.

[tuvor]

8. The whining republicans are a bunch of crybabies

Send a whaaaaaambulance.

[pdxmom]

9. I think stunt was the strongest word they could come up with

after being caught so flat-footed.

What bothers me is that the Repubs WERE caught so flat-footed on this. They were totally amazed. Which tells me they don't expect the Dems to do anything to fight back. They expect us to just bend over and take whatever they dish out.

So more stunts, please. Keep them on their toes.

[readmylips]

10. Nuclear Option Baby....Bring it on Democrats...

Bomb away at those repig criminals...

[drb]

12. That's the difference between Democrats and reschmucklicans...

The Democrats have a cunning array of stunts; the reschmucklicans are a stunning array of....

[harlinchi]

15. Dadgummit, I wish I thought of that! n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. This coming from the masters of political stunts.

:rofl: repukes are such hypocrites! It's mind numbing.

[froshty1960]

23. Yeah, really

I think that the best response to any repug accusations regarding "stunts," "playing politics," and other similar whines is the familiar schoolyard chant, "Takes one to know one!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

35. LOL!

How sad is that?

[pdxmom]

14. What are some other stunts the Dems could use to keep this

all front and center? Nuclear option is a given, but we've got a lot of time between now and then.

They need to come up with some planned way to keep the media focused on the Dems agenda, instead of just ignoring whatever is said.

Heard on talking idiot say yesterday that not one Dem has come out with any alternate plan for the war. What the hell is that about?

They need to keep up bold actions to force the media to deal with them.

[shugh514]

17. More stunts!

Anything that takes the scripts out the repuke's hands and forces them to ad-lib shows them to be the fools they are.

Santorum bordered on total gibberish
:rofl:

[pdxmom]

18. Santorum was a riot! He can't seem to pull off moral outrage, It

looks more like deer in the headlights with a tinge of heartburn.

Sanctimonious a-hole.

[zbdent]

19. Frist's "surprise" is the stunt

the Dems' procedure is a legal method.

[Kber]

29. It's a constitutionally enshrined legal method

so the repubs can't just change the rules.

That's the brilliance of using this particular rule. It reminds the repubs of Reid's threat to shut down the senate if they try to remove the filibuster. It's saying "if you want to play hardball, you've got to take a punch as well as you throw one".

[savemefromdumbya]

20. You can always tell when the Repubs' cages are rattled

Key Repug phrases 1) The Dems are being partisan 2) the Dems are being political 3) the Dems did a stunt 4) I can't answer that question it is an ongoing investigation 5) I'm not guilty ...any more?

[pdxmom]

22. How about the fact that we're all Communists? That's the big

far right talking point today.

How is using the rules of the Senate being a communist? They were just throwing out words yesterday to see what might stick.

[savemefromdumbya]

25. I think Muslims and Commies are too much for the voters

You can't have 2 enemies at once it would muddy the waters of George's crusade against the Muslims!

[pdxmom]

27. Wait. We can't possibly be fighting the Muslims AND the Commies!

We already beat them, didn't we? Seems I heard we won the Cold War and Bushco insists we won in Iraq.

Doesn't winning indicate the enemy is gone??? <g>

[Ganja Ninja]

24. Of course the GOP would never resort to stunts.

Like shutting down the government twice or raising the terror alert level a couple of dozen times. :sarcasm:

[pdxmom]

26. I think Frist's outrage that this was a "personal affront" to him was

so far over the top. Doesn't he think it was a "personal affront" to Daschle when he went out and actively campaigned against him?

Was that a "stunt", too?

[GaDemo]

28. On faux new website

they called it a stunt too on their headline about it...balanced and unbiased my ass:puke:

[VaYallaDawg]

30. If you watched Larry King last night -

Sen Shelby (R., Alabama) was downright collegial (well, at least never overtly nasty) with Barbara Boxer - looks to me like maybe some of Prince Frist's GOP friends are having some second thoughts. Of course, what's funny is Frist usually has that pious beagle-dog look on his face, but when somebody has the balls to challenge his power, the mask does drop, doesn't it!!

[pdxmom]

31. I saw Shelby last night. He really was pretty moderate in his

responses. And he admitted that people have questions and those questions need to be answered.

Oh, it's so nice to see these folks caught between a rock and a hard place, due to elections in a year.

[pdxmom]

32. I see that "stunt" is THE meme of the day. I really want someone

to say "Hell YES, it was a stunt. It was the only way to get them off their asses and doing something."

[applegrove]

33. They were doing their job. A stunt is what the GOP in the Senate were

doing by dragging their feet on the investigation - past the 2004 election and on and on and on.

[0007]

34. Harry Reid did a masterstroke, Bill Frist, monkeyshines. n/t