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I love this one.
Joe Lieberman must be wondering if his colleagues’ respect for him went out the same window that he tossed the public option and the Medicare buy-in compromise that was to replace it.
He got an answer of sorts Thursday afternoon as he came to the end of a floor speech, and ran out of time.
“I’m sorry. The senator has spoken for ten minutes,” Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), as the chamber’s presiding officer, told Lieberman. Customarily, when senators ask unanimous consent for a bit more time, consent is always given.
“I wonder if I could ask unanimous consent for just an additional moment,” Lieberman said.
“In my capacity as the senator from Minnesota, I object,” said Franken, in what appeared to be a dramatic departure from the long and stifling tradition of Senate collegiality.
“Really?” responded a stunned Lieberman. “Okay. Don’t take it personally.”
Lieberman’s good buddy and fellow asshole, John McCain, then took to the floor in mock horror at what just too place.
“I must say that I don’t know what’s happening here in this body, but I think it’s wrong. And so I — it’s fine with me that it be 10 minutes, but I’ll tell you, I have never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did.”
The hypocrisy of guys like McCain is astounding. His own party is doing everything they can to stop DEBATE of the health care bill. Their entire plan is based on stalling the forward movement of government in their attempt to take the President down. And yet McCain has the audacity to cry foul because Lieberman was denied extra time to spew his garbage?
Funny. McCain laments that he does not know what is happening to Congress these days. Should we point out that it was a Republican who called the President of the United States a liar in a joint session of Congress? What’s happening is over 20 years of Republican dirty tricks. We all remember Republican’s behavior during the Clinton years.
The bottom line is that Lieberman has deservedly lost the respect of most Democrats. He can take his “Don’t take it personally” BS and shove it.
As for McCain’s ‘shock’…his phoniness is way too transparent.
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Lieberman should take it personally. The message was pretty clear. Hats off to anyone who can listen for even 10 minutes to that monotonous droning. If Mr. Lieberman wants courtesy, then he should have the courtesy to remove his knife from the backs of his fellow caucus members.
Thank God Senator McCain is not President McCain. We’ve just seen one “asshole” (as Mario so aptly put it) parroting another. I wouldn’t want one “asshole” lording over the other “assholes” with the Democrats watching in disbelief. Honestly, we’d be at war in Afghanistan, Iran & Iraq, with a deficit that would make this one look minute, and Americans would be bankrupted daily due to owing vast amounts of money from lack of health care.
While I would love to see Senator Lieberman get his just deserts, it appears that this is much ado about nothing. Media Matters has a piece on the matter today that is typically well-supported. It appears from their reporting that this was not, in fact about sticking it to Joe, and that the same procedure involved Senator Cornyn and Senator Begich earlier in the day.
“…I have never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did.” John Sydney McSame III
Well, you gotta suspect that’s bullshit. Like any/everything else coming outta these reThugs mouths and… IT IS!
TRMS posted up a Senate minutes from 2002 where JOHN SYDNEY MCSAME III himself refused Sen Mark Dayton of OK an opportunity for a couple of extra minutes to finish his remarks!! Good Girl!
Officially ‘sharp’, she is. SHe and her staff, like Jon Stewart and his, don’t miss much when it comes to hypocricy and the reThugs.
Actually, it’s easier than it appears, since you can start by figuring that they’re lying/hiding something and then just start digging, it’ll be there, just like another ‘car turd’ in the ‘litter box’ that is the all too quickly forgotten Senate record by the likes of over/under medicated dinosaurs like McSame that STILL don’t ‘get’ the ‘google machine’.
It’d be laughable, if that plane-crashing, gold-digging, relic didn’t get 59M votes.
Sydney, (you and Caribou Barbie) you can fool some of the people ALL of the time, but, the record, especially the Senate record, is the record.
PATHOLOGICAL (OR COMPULSIVE?) LIAR!
as for LIEberman, well…. enjoy your ‘moment’ in the sun Icarus, it ain’t gonna last.
Sen. Dayton only wanted an additional 30 seconds, not a minute or two. Maybe that’s how McCain rationalizes his statement as true.
See, Senate logs are like blog archives. The person shouting the loudest about something detestable is usually guilty of it. Was it Bill Cosby’s grandmother who said, “The crier is usually the liar”?
I should add that’s it’s funny to think that Rachel Maddow will be pilloried by the right for pointing out McCain’s blatant hypocrisy.
“We all remember Republican’s behavior during the Clinton years.” and conveniently forget Democratic/Liberal behavior during the Bush years.
Oh…btw…great pic accompanied by a very intellectual comment. Quality of vocabulary seems to be taking a serious dip here.
McCain seems to forget his own party’s behavior during the Bush years, along with his own particular behavior.