So much for rigorous debate. The Dems have been out to get Joe Lieberman for a few years now, and this childish act just shows that they aren’t through with him.
The senate health care debate (which doesn’t include the American people), appears to more of a one way road. Either submit or shut up. Rhetoric? Hyperbole? No, that is literally what happened in the senate today, and it couldn’t have happened to a bigger Dem target.
Joe Lieberman, who first drew the ire of the Democrats when he supported the war in Iraq, has gotten under their skin again, this time for his opposition to measures in the disastrous senate version of health care reform. During todays debate, he was making his alotted 10 minute point. As time expired, he asked for a few more moments to finish the thought. Al Franken (D-Minn), standing in as Harry Reid’s bitch because doggonit, people like him, made an almost unheard of move and refused to let Lieberman finish.
“In my capacity as the senator from Minnesota, I object,” Franken said.
A stunned Lieberman had no choice under senate rules than to end his comments. That’s reaching across the aisle all right. Then again, Lieberman is really one of them. That would be cannibalism I guess. Whatever the case, the Democrats do not want any debate on this. They want to pass the bill. A Franken spokeshole said that Lieberman was cut off because Democratic leaders are rushing to complete work on the healthcare legislation. Yes, they were in such a hurry that Lieberman couldn’t have another minute. Well, why should they? They have no intention of compromising, especially if it involves Lieberman. The bill is in enough trouble already. The last thing they need is any more changes that will alienate the far left socialists any further. They could care less about alienating the American public.
“Stuart Smalley is Harry Reid’s bitch.”
AHAHAHAHHAHA…didn’t think you could get much lower than Harry! Thanks for the morning laugh, I’m dying here.
Al Franken created his own public persona. He presented himself as a joke, and was he ever accurate on that one.
I hated Franken from the get go. He was on TV when I was younger (I was a democrat then too) and he stunk back then. Not funny.
McCain says something like “I can’t understand what just happened” after that silly exchange. Even McCain was taken aback by this clown’s overacting.
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I started voting when Reagan was president. I did not understand Dems then, nor do I now. The sad thing is, I no longer understand the Republicans either. How is it that we are not exposing the Stuart Smalley’s of the gov’t everyday, everytime we get the chance? Of course I say “we” as if I know who we actually are.
It is this point in life that I now am beginning to understand the writings of a man I studied in school, Henry David Thoreau. “This American government–what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?” Stuart Smalley showed us all his lack of integrity and unfortunately he is only but a sympton of a more grandiose disease that is our gov’t today.
“‘That government is best which governs not at all;’ and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.”
I’d like to believe that, but I think we’re a long ways off.