We have to work with the Dems. we have and not the Dems. we want.  

Can we really expect them to do anything besides sit there and worry about how the mean old media is going to spin this?  I bet you anything that there'll be 20 some-odd Dems. speaking to the press right now about how worried they are about their Democratic leadership instead of showing their own strength of solidarity.

Blogging While Brown Convention Atlanta, GA July 25-27, 2008

I remember reading that many years ago, sometime in the 50's I think, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations led an Eastern Bloc walkout over some snit or other they had with the US. The US promptly introduced and passed a bunch of resolutions the Soviets were blocking and vetoing, and they passed in the Soviets' absence.

This is why United Nations delegates sit through diatribes against their nations (especially if they're on the Security Council). If they walk out, who knows what will happen.

If I were Speaker I'd have a bushel basketful of such bills on hand for just such an eventuality. I'd get an auctioneer to read them on the floor, I'd get what was left of the House to pass them without debate, and we'd send them on to the Senate. Then we could show the American people what we can accomplish when the obstructionist Republicans aren't standing in the way.

But I'm not and she didn't.


The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Ambassador Kosh

send him one of these

Brendan Calling John Mccain

thanks, I was getting ready to post a comment that went something like this:

"WWWOOOOHOOOO!  YAAAAYY!   AHOOOOOOAHHH!
Um.  Now what?"

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

..."Someone's testy today"...

seems to be a lot of that going around these days, on both sides of the aisle

lTMF'sA...the revolution will not be televised...Peace

Can we lock the doors behind them?

You should make the correction.

Although if they decided they were going to censure John Bolton while they were at it, I wouldn't mind. I'm not sure what they'd censure him for, but I'm not fussy.

The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Ambassador Kosh

Members will introduce legislation praising victorious sports teams, retiring politicians and the like. In fact, a resolution once passed (in the Texas legislature, not the US, although the story is good enough that I'll stretch it a bit) praising one Albert de Salvo:

This compassionate gentleman's dedication and devotion to his work has enabled the weak and the lonely throughout the nation to achieve and maintain a new degree of concern for their future. He has been officially recognized by the state of Massachusetts for his noted activities and unconventional techniques involving population control and applied psychology.

De Salvo was also known in earlier times as the Boston Strangler.

The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -- Ambassador Kosh