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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 05:58 PM
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So, basically, freeps don't understand what hearings are actually for?
Every frickin' caller made the dems sound like the badboys for having the AUDACITY and the AMERICA-HATING GALL to ask questions of Rice and to not confirm her immediately.

How dare they ask questions of a republican!! HOW DARE THEY!! Those damn dems, dividing the country, working against unity, trying to keep us all separated. Why can't they get over it?! Why do they have to be such whiners??

Christ.

Every time Clinton took a piss, the republicans call a senate hearing about it. Let alone everyone he wanted to appoint to anything, who all had to go through extensive drilling and screening and constant "no" votes from the republicans; in fact, most of Clinton's appointees never even making it as far as having a confirmation hearing.

Stupid fucking fucker fucks.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 05:59 PM
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1. Funny, isn't it.
Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 05:59 PM by Bleachers7
I am getting a kick out of this. When will they be rebroadcast? I want to watch the beat down.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:00 PM
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2. CSPAN keeps saying 8 pm for the rebroadcast -
and at that time, it sounds like they will have edited it down, too.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:01 PM
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3. From what you say, apparently no, they don't understand the process.
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XanaDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:04 PM
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4. No, and they have no idea how the government works, either
they seem to think that King George III can waltz into the Oval Office with a pencil and an eraser and start marking up our Constitution by putting in all sorts of things like a ban on gay marriage, etc.

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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:04 PM
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5. I remember 1993
Back then all the Conservative radio talk show hosts and TV pundits (the Web was in its infancy back then) were pissing and moaning that the Senate Republicans were going to easy on the nominees from the Clinton Administration.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:06 PM
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6. It's just a stupid game they play, one of the only tricks they got left.
Just keep plowing through it for a couple more years and it won't work anymore.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-18-05 06:14 PM
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7. I'll tell you about another thing they get away with.
When Clinton was in office, every single year he had a physical ON TIME and there was a press gaggle about it and the results were released to the press (the OFFICIAL results). Once there was an official White House web site (I don't think there was one when he FIRST took office) they started posting it there, too.

During the 1996 press gaggle right after his physical that year, the reporters actually asked SIX OR SEVEN TIMES IF CLINTON HAD AN STD.

Yep. Very aggressively, too. They also asked if Clinton was going to release his ENTIRE PRIVATE medical record (this was during the campaign against Dole). HE DID.

This president? The ONLY official report you can find for his physicals is from ****2001****!!!!!! The others? Only press gaggle comments from 2002. There was an article somewhere for 2003 (not on the WH web site) and for 2004, he had the damn thing FOUR FUCKING MONTHS LATE and not a DAMN WORD ABOUT IT. When the results of THAT one were released, it was the same WORD FOR WORD as the 2001, 2002, and 2003 reports (not that we ever saw an official one for 2002, 2003, or 2004).

THEY ARE ASSHOLES. THEY CAN DISH IT OUT, BUT THEY CAN'T TAKE IT. THEY TALK THE TALK BUT THEY NEVER WALK THE WALK. THEY ARE ALL SHOW AND NO GO. Get up in their face, whisper BOO and they wet their freaking pants.

They're bluster, that's all, nothing less and nothing more.

Hey lurking right wingers: I got your UNITY right here, fuckers:

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