Super committee Senate Dems: Murray, Baucus, Kerry

[rankandfile]

I like Kerry. He doesn't get the respect he deserves.

He was THE legislator who ramrodded the BCCI revelations. The money trails and inter-connected criminality he exposed is still useful today in recognizing financial bedfellows.

[Ted King]

It will be interesting to see who McConnell and Boehner pick. My hunch is that they will pack it with ideologues who will be most likely to not give anything and we'll be back to the whole sad scenario we keep seeing played out over and over where the Democrats start with a position well to the right of their most liberal membership and give up buckets of concessions while the Republicans start with an extreme right position and only give a glimmer of promise of concessions so that they can entice the Democrats to give up more - and then pull back from even that glimmer of a concession, having gotten something from the Democrats with nothing in exchange. I hope I'm wrong about that, but the people picked by Reid don't give me much of a reason to think so.

[Gutenberg]

$tevie wrote:
[quote=Ted King]I hope Polosi puts Barney Frank on the committee.

Oh hell, yeah.

ON a slight tangent, did you hear Frank snark at his interviewer on npr the other morning. It was great, they asked him a question and as he was attempting to answer it they told him he was out of time and he said, don't ask me a question about a complicated subject and then give me 5 seconds to answer it (something along those lines). I loved it.
I heard that too. I don't know why Inskeep didn't let him finish. It's not like they have to cut to commercial.

[$tevie]

I just can't get around what a dish rag he was during the election. He should have torpedoed those swiftboaters when they first appeared on the horizon.

[rankandfile]

$tevie wrote:
Jeebus, the GOP appts are all boobs who signed the Norquist pledge. This is going to be a total waste of time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10...lp00000009

Kyl is not meant to be a factual appointment.

[$tevie]

rankandfile wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
Jeebus, the GOP appts are all boobs who signed the Norquist pledge. This is going to be a total waste of time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10...lp00000009

Kyl is not meant to be a factual appointment. Pardon?

[Grace62]

rankandfile wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
Jeebus, the GOP appts are all boobs who signed the Norquist pledge. This is going to be a total waste of time.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10...lp00000009

Kyl is not meant to be a factual appointment.
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[$tevie]

Ack, now I feel like I'm stupid because I don't get the joke.

[Grace62]

“Not intended to be a factual statement,” the comment made by a spokesperson for Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and transformed by comedian Stephen Colbert into a pop culture meme has come nearly full circle, as Democrats have begun to use the phrase on the Senate floor.

The first quip came Wednesday from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in a floor speech defending Planned Parenthood, the program that Kyl attacked last week, claiming that 90 percent of the group’s activities were abortion-related. The actual number is closer to 3 percent. A Kyl staffer defended the comment by explaining it “was not intended to be a factual statement.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/041...z1UeD30mC1

[$tevie]

This is what I get for not having cable.