Reply #20: He did come very close. [View All]

My thoughts? I heard very little range of emotion from the Senator today. What I heard was alternating angry, disgusted and pissed off. First, although I know ANWR is a very important issue for him, I think he believes the rules of the Senate are absolute, and he'll fight Stevens' bullshit end-around of the rules tooth and nail. I'm sure he was very happy about the outcome of the vote, but the issue was much larger. For someone who plays by the book, I'm not sure how the Senator works with some of these conniving bastards every day. I would never be able to do it.
As Big Ed said, there was so much news today, and so much ground to cover in the interviews, but the big three, playing games with defense bill and the senate rules, spygate, and the election stuff all seemed to come together to get the Senator spitting mad, IMO.
As for the election stuff, I was pretty shocked by it. To mention the Diebold problems, the Ohio lawsuits, Blackwell and machine hacking in the space of 60 seconds or so suggests to me that he's getting ready to start showing his hand. Maybe he has more evidence than we think from this Florida Diebold testing. "We can't leave voter integrity in proprietary hands." Isn't that what he said? Maybe he knows his campaign phones were tapped. Regardless, I think he's just had enough. I think he's pissed that we had from 2000 till 2004 to take care of these issues, and we didn't, and it cost us the election. And now, with all the scandal in Washington, and bush* lying at every turn (he did use the 'L' word today) it's become even worse. I think he had no idea until recenty how truly criminal this administration would turn out, and he's frustrated beyond the point where he can hold back. Recall what he said the other day about Corzine. Envious that he couldn't have that kind of opportunity. Very telling, IMO.
Since I tend to focus more on the intangible, emotional side of the story, the quote that stood out for me was when he said to Press re the bush* spin on investigations into wiretaps, "Who are they kidding? This has got to stop. This has just got to stop." The anger and disgust was palpable.
Oh, he's pissed.
OTOH, his e mail was very sweet. He's proud of us. That's so cool.