Senate going into a CLOSED SESSION!

[DoYouEverWonder]

Dems calling for Closed Session. C-SPAN 2

No link. Just finished press conference.

[Stand and Fight]

1. What exactly does that mean, DYEW? Thanks in advance. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. The DEMS are demanding an investigation

Sounds like they've had enough of the WH bs.

[NashVegas]

15. Either That, Or They've Got an Offer That Can't Be Refused.

With Scooter shooting for an innocent plea, there's some major potential embarrassment for the White House, once witnesses start getting called.

If and when the evidence of intelligence cookery comes to light, many Dems are going to look just as bad as the Republicans. For strictly political purposes (makes me ill just thinking it), the Dems have a wonderful card to play, but they can get more mileage from it (ie, blackmail) if it doesn't come out to the public, is my guess.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Here's the link from GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5231023

[blm]

5. It means they are going to get NASTY on the floor of the Senate.

And a bigass fight is about to ensue where Sen. Pat Roberts is going to be chopped into mincemeat for using the Senate Report to cover up for the WH and its lies against Joe Wilson.

[atommom]

25. Oh, man. I want to SEE Roberts get chopped into mincemeat!

I've been waiting for that for a long, long time.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Link for C-SPAN 2

Looks like everyone is waiting around to see what happens next.

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

[VolcanoJen]

6. Dupe

For the first time in 25 years, the doors have been locked in the senate chamber. Only the 100 senators are allowed. They are going to discuss intelligence.

Ed Henry reports this is a maneuver by Harry Reid.

More to come...

[shraby]

7. The Dems want some answers on the

pre-Iraq war intel..phase 2 of the report, want some answers about what Cheney knew, want oversight. They're hot under the collar and will call a closed session every day until they get answers.

[VolcanoJen]

8. Per CNN - this is re Plame and the lead-up to the Iraq War

For the first time in 25 years, the doors have been locked in the senate chamber. Only the 100 senators are allowed. They are going to discuss intelligence.

Ed Henry reports this is a maneuver by Harry Reid.

Henry reports the Democrats will do this EVERY DAY until Senate Republicans agree to a hearing about whether intelligence was manipulated before the war.

[VolcanoJen]

10. Frist: This is the ultimate. The Democrats are using scare tactics.

"Never have I been so slapped in the face," he said.

OMFG!!!

[Arkana]

47. SCARE TACTICS??????!!!!

WHAT THE HELL DOES HE CALL THE METHODS THAT HIS LORD AND MASTER USED TO KEEP US SUBJUGATED EVER SINCE 9/11??????!!!!!

[Inland]

50. Umm....so who's scared by this session? Not me. nt

[enid602]

59. Not since that night with Bulldog, at any rate.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Frist, Senate hijacked!

holy shit

[VolcanoJen]

13. He is going apeshit - "slapped in the face" "a stunt"

Damn, Frist is pissed off!

[gademocrat7]

11. This is great.

Hope the Dems can keep this up. Let's get ready for the rethug smears to start.

[bowens43]

12. Frist says the Dems HIJACKED the Senate.

Frist is freaking out !!!

[whatever4]

14. Poor Frist

Been slapped in the face, calling it a stunt. But...they followed the rules, right? As opposed to keeping the vote open? As opposed to forcing dems to hold meeting in the basement?

What a farce of a leader of anything, an affront by his very presence

[JerseygirlCT]

16. And it seems like he now needs Lott to speak for him

Defending him?

[whatever4]

28. And forget the war, corruption and death, we want to talk about MONEY !

's very important business, that money. Get it done before break, this "political score" of a CIA spy being outed by the VP. Silly stuff.

Santorum is a piece of work. "It's purely political"

As opposed to what, banking and money, you shill of an idiot? It's the SENATE, it's supposed to be politics, you can keep your blood money you monster.

Money

Get it done before the break

and this investigatin, it's just silly. A stunt.

How do these men dress themselves?

[No Exit]

33. I hope Trent Lott makes Frist-cat-killer

give him a BJ before he agrees to help Frist. (Considering what Frist and Bushco did to Lott...heh heh)

[whatever4]

17. GO DEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! nm

[bowens43]

18. Hey Lott the justification is

hat you and your cohorts are corrupt, freedom hating asshats.

[Skidmore]

19. See this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2213221

[VolcanoJen]

20. Senate Leadership alleges Reid "stabbed them in the back."

They allege Reid gave no heads-up whatsoever before calling for the closed session.

[No Exit]

21. What happened?? What did Reid do??

Did he tell the repukes that the dems refuse to consider the Alito matter till we get an apology from Bushco for taking us to Iraq based on lies?? Just a wild guess...

Please tell me what happened!

[ContraBass Black]

22. Armor up.

The battle begins in earnest.

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. The Repugs sure know how to hijack the microphone

they are talking about anything and everything except the real issue that the WH is corrupt and full of criminals.

[Skidmore]

24. Santorum--Shows you how much Dems hate to cut

spending. PA lose that sucker please!

[patcox2]

26. I think we may know who our 08 candidate is, and its Reid.

He appears to have humongous balls. For the hysterical shreikers who want to "fight like cornered junkyard dogs" on every single losing issue, this is whats called picking your battles. Then you attack, when you have them in a position of weakness.

[sepia_steel]

I"d vote for Reid.

SOMEONE has to do this.

[0007]

58. "fight like cornered junkyard dogs"

Carl Levin and Dick Durbin are talking to the press.

Discussing pre-war intelligence.

[JerseygirlCT]

27. "political stunt" "scare tactic"

Guess these guys ought to know all about that, huh?

[No Exit]

29. DEMS HAD THE TEMERITY TO DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION

OF PLAMEGATE AND THE LIES THAT LED TO WAR IN IRAQ!!! (sorry for shouting but I think this merits it!)

GO REID!

GO SCHUMER!

KEEP IT UP, GUYS!!

[VolcanoJen]

30. So is the closed session over? Why is Rep. Leadership outside?

Why aren't they in the session? It can be ended by simple majority vote, right?

Is this some kind of a lock-out?

[Skidmore]

31. Frist want to play nice now.

After all the BS this jerk has pulled. He's doing a Parshal. He can't hear us.

[second edition]

32. Good for the Dem's. Kerry and a few others sent the Intel Com.

a letter about two months ago mentioning the DSM and requesting that phase 2 of the Intelligence Committee investigation into the intelligence that lead up to the war in Iraq proceed. They wanted to drop the investigations and just move on.

[sepia_steel]

35. Yeah, all this boo-hooing about 'we are TRYING to move this country

forward"

SUCH utter bullshit.

[sepia_steel]

34. The fakeness is so damn obvious it's PAINFUL.

i can barely stomach it.

[JerseygirlCT]

36. Frist: "I would have said: let's talk about it"

Right. And you were waiting for?...

[No Exit]

37. Frist: "If they wanna git in the gutter..."

Hey, ASSHOLE, THIS person is in the gutter WITH them! And YOU and your kind PUT me there!!

[No Exit]

38. "to go behind closed doors for national security reasons", MY ASS

Admit it, Frist bastard: you all are going to go behind closed doors because you don't want us to hear the democrats point out how YOUR party lied to us and sent us to Iraq on false pretenses!!!!

[GarySeven]

39. I don't understand what's happening at all ....

... but if it makes Frist and the others go so completely bananas, then I am for it!!

The line has apparently been drawn. It is time to fight for our Democracy and to oust the gangsters who infest the Republican Party. All people who love our nation, including those Republicans who are tired of the tricks of the thugs, should join them in support!

[Greeby]

40. Keep watching, more Senators likely to speak

Remember they said it takes a couple of hours for the Senate to be sweeped for any kind of recording device

[astonamous]

41. Did they (Dems) hear us? The call to SHUT IT DOWN? n/t

[JerseygirlCT]

42. So what happens in a closed session?

Can we get anywhere, or can the Repubs simply shut down speech there too, with their numbers?

[whatever4]

43. They're re-airing Reids speech on the floor NOW nm

[JerseygirlCT]

44. Who was presiding when he asked for the closed session? nt

[whatever4]

52. Not sure, hope that will be shown. I've missed seeing who's presiding nm

[whatever4]

48. And I'm so glad I'm hearing it

He's speaking truth, doing a great job. Way to go DEMS!! This is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Totally discredited..."

happy happy joy joy. Now, for the first time, there really is some hope.

I'd vote him in for Prez too.

[bluedawg12]

45. Reid demanding an intel investigation on war!

It’s chaos!

The Dems shut the Senate down- you go Dems!!!

Reid: Out troops and the people have sacrifice too much time for repugs to come clean!!!

Accusing the Senate Intel committe on failure to investigate.

[Stand and Fight]

46. Hot Dog!!! Awesome!!! Kickass!!!

Give 'em hell, Harry!

[SteppingRazor]

49. Death to the Greedheads!

We will march on a road of bones!! The greedy will fry in vats of their own liposuctioned fat!!! Oh, Lord, God in Heaven Above! It's like being on Ecstasy without eating pills!!

Nov. 1, 2005. The Day They Grew a Spine.

[blackcatpgh]

53. SteppingRazor

...good to hear those HST lines, and a timely use of them!

[SteppingRazor]

54. The subject line and the first sentence are his...

the rest is my own HST-esque fevered gibberish. As a columnist and a writer in general, half of me thanks him for being such an influence, the other half damns him for stealing my freaking thunder. :evilgrin:

[blackcatpgh]

55. yeah, i was aware of that

but your additions fit into his style just fine.

cheers!

[vlup2es]

51. Finally some balls. A prayer for the governed

My God...
I can't believe that finally the Dem's with "no plan of their own" are finally doing something to force the truth to the front of the line.

This is how I feel about Bush's government:



PRAYER FOR THE GOVERNED

I shall wrap myself in the flag of my country and hold a Bible high in my hand. My songs of privatization, reverence and traditional values will be heard throughout the land.
I will align myself with those of power and wealth, forsaking the downtrodden and unfortunate and proclaim my actions to be in the best interest of all. I will divert funding from education of our youth, saying to critics that no child will be left behind. I will repeal legislation that protects the citizenry from environmental pollution and deny them redress through the judicial process.
I will call it necessary.
I will invade foreign powers, categorizing them as evil, and imprison and torture their people. And this, I will say, is justified in that we bring hope, freedom and democracy to the conquered. I will take from the impoverished, the elderly and the infirm and they will believe that this is right and good. For it is by their faith, rather than their understanding, that I have been entrusted with the power to lead them. And they will not readily admit the fallibility of their beliefs. Let us pray.

Pray the Democrats are successful!

[Generator]

56. So do they have some new info

Or did they just figure out what 1 plus 1 is and it isn't 9/11 happened because of Iraq?

[ieoeja]

57. Libby springboard -or- Alito warning.

Reid is either using the Libby indictment as a springboard for an honest and open discussion on intelligence issues which must take place behind closed doors for national security reasons, or...

Reid is using this as an excuse to force a closed door meeting of the Senate to demonstrate that Democrats can AND WILL cause chaos should the Republics follow through on their "nuclear" option vis-a-vis Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.

Even if it is for the first reason, the second point is being made as well.

[peacetalksforall]

60. Please clear this up - 1st time in 25 years - what about six times Clinton

I've heard there were six closed sessions to discuss Clinton. I've heard this is the first time there has been a closed session in 25 years. Is there some detail that is missing?

[VADem11]

61. This is the first time

that it has been invoked in 25 years. The other times, rule 21 was not invoked and both parties agreed to a closed session instead.