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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:27 PM
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GOP heaps scorn on retiring Frist
WASHINGTON -- Just before the 109th Congress finally adjourned shortly before dawn Saturday, retiring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist got some last-minute perks for his home state of Tennessee -- and took a rhetorical beating from his colleagues.

Some Republicans heaped scorn on Frist, faulting him for fostering runaway federal spending.

Late Friday night, House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., said icily in a speech on the House floor that Congress' failure to pass nine of 11 appropriations bills "should be placed squarely at the feet of the departing majority leader." The House passed its version of the bills, but the Senate did not.

Congress passed a stopgap spending bill that continues federal funding at current levels until mid-February.

Frist managed to stick some pork for the folks back home into the final bills passed, however.

An angry Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., a fiscal conservative and Budget Committee chairman, said: "This is being done by the Republican leadership to the Republican membership.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16209459.htm
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:28 PM
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1. My my how quickly rats can turn on one another.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:28 PM
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2. Like Frist Did It All By Himself!
He had lots of GOP help (and not a few DINOs, too)
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:51 PM
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5. Really
Pot meet kettle. THe criticism rings pretty hollow, doesn't it? Guess they don't feel the need to make nice now that Frist won't be there and won't be the GOP's presidential frontrunner.

If he were running for President they'd be singing his praises.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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AndreaCG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 02:59 PM
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15. Too true
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zreosumgame Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 07:25 PM
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13. LOL I know, I know, my first thought was "well...DUH moran!"
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Zenlitened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:37 PM
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3. "Republican" = "Can't be trusted to govern."
It's really that simple.

They should rename themselves "The Katrina Party," because nothing but misery, mis-steps and missed opportunity follows in their path.
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Mitt Chovick Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 07:48 PM
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4. Of course the Senate gets nothing done
60 votes for cloture.

One senator can hold up anything.

Frist may be the most ineffectual senate leader in my lifetime but now that it is our dysfunctional baby, I doubt we'll get much done either, unless the Rethugs roll over and play dead.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:45 PM
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6. And none of these hypocrites did a damn thing about it, did they?r
Edited on Sun Dec-10-06 08:45 PM by Lastlaughin08
They got what they richly deserved last month.
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superconnected Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 08:51 PM
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7. Can't go 3 months without republicans eating their own.
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Mitt Chovick Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 06:19 PM
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12. Nope they are cats
Each one concerned only about himself or herself and absolutely willing and able to throw anyone and everyone under the bus to hold onto power.

I think the great middle saw that and decided to throw em all under the bus.
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kainah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-10-06 11:32 PM
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8. transcript of Lewis & David Obey
I was watching this exchange on Friday night and found it so amazing, I transcribed it and posted it over on dailykos. If you'd like to read the transcript:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/8/214517/568
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 12:41 AM
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9. Btw, re your poll. I stopped watching C-SPAN theater
Edited on Mon Dec-11-06 12:43 AM by sfexpat2000
after about a year.

The call in shows are skewed to the right and the Congressional theater is nauseating. At some point, as a former actor/director, I realized that what I was watching was for the camera. They're not good enough performers to hold my attention.

/c->k
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 03:24 PM
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11. As someone who has watched "Washington Journal"
for years, sadly, I believe you're correct about the quality of CSPAN's "Washington Journal". They're just not getting the guests they used to feature. (I guess the more knowledgeable people are all busy...appearing on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report).
Lately, with notable exceptions, we've been inudated with people of questionable credentials who have trouble answering the most elementary of questions from CSPAN viewers.
They all sound like Cheney: "I haven't read that so I can't comment." His stock answer for any question he doesn't want to answer. Which, these days, is every question he's asked.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 08:43 AM
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10. "Republican leadership" is an oxymoron. nt
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-11-06 08:01 PM
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14. The Pubs confirm why they should be denied at the polls...They cannot govern
they cannot lead, and they cannot deliver....

The GOP is Pathetic and LACKING...never mind LAME...
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