Posted on 11/01/2005 12:21:09 PM PST by OkeyDokeyOkie
Senate Goes Into Rare Closed Session
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
By Sharon Kehnemui Liss
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate went into closed session Tuesday after Democrats enacted a rare parliamentary rule forcing the shut down of the Senate so senators could speak in a classified session about the lead-up to the war in Iraq.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid demanded the chamber be closed so they could hold a secret session that they say was prompted by "misinformation and disinformation" given by the administration prior to entry into the war in Iraq.
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("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
I predict The Mother Of All Backfires.
I'd pick this time to bring a bill to the floor on immigration. Right now....
And vote on it.
The Republicans should merely do a point of order, vote, and get this stunt over with.
Of course --- the RINOs will want to "hear them out" and "discuss" --- which plays right into the Dim hands.
The only reason they want a secret meeting is so they can claim "lies" and then when confronted say "it's secret."
Total B.S.
I agree, did Rush predict this or what?
I wonder what Frist will give away now?
Frist said it well. Described them and their gutter tacticts to the T.
They want Bush, plain and simple...
Lets see if the Pres steps up and calls a press conference tonight...Important to send a message that this will not be tolerated...
GWB has escaped their traps and they can't stand it.
They hope to stall the Senate until Sandra O'Connor falls off her chair at the SCOTUS.
Frr once Id like the President capitalize on and call them out on these stunts. Its like we are the no-backbone party.
Xackly! Frist will play it their way.
Gosh, if they want to about the lead-up to the Iraq war, they're a little too late! We're already there! Rats iz soooo stoopit.
Here comes the Frist wimpout.
The GOP should turn the investigation into that of the role of the CIA in running an operation against the administration in a time of war.
If nothing else, Frist will do it because he wants to be of TV.
What a loser.
Simple majority vote defeats it.
Exactly: this going to tick off even the RINO's.
Anyone else think this is an effort to smear Bush to cripple the Alito nomination?
OK Billy Boy what are going to do about it? This is the time to use the power of the majority and the power of the leader. I won't hold my breath.
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No worry. A "leak" will give the details of the session to the MSM.
"Its like we are the no-backbone party."
You said it! We have traitors in Congress and the gutless Rhinos that will not
do anything. I agree: The President should go on the air and call it as it is:
Treason - at time of War!
Un-freaking-believable...
They should go to Roswell, and sit in the desert and have a slumber party and do each other's hair.
For some reason this reminds me of Maxwell Smart insisting that he and the chief use the "cone of silence".
Read: "The purpose of the closed session was so that we could call American soldiers 'Nazis' without being pilloried by the media or the Republicans," said House Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois."
Got to keep the loonies on the path.
You are right on it. Rush is correct. They want to impeach Bush.
O'Reilly last week mentioned Rush and thought it ridiculous. He'll be proved wrong.
I'd like to review the intelligence which Toon used to justify the bombing campaign, which began the day the articles of impeachment were passed, which led to the expulsion of weapons inspectors, which led to four years of saddam being able to do as he pleased, which led to great and important questions about what he had done, which led to questions about intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
"Phase Two.... The Final Solution, is upon us."
Filthy traitors. They value their party over the counrty.
Implement the nuclear option now and get it over with.
Fight dirty time
"Phase Two" sounds like a conspiracy to me.
Double Secret Probation for the WH....
Man, what a bunch of irrellevant folks...
How did we as a nation get to a point where people I wouldn't trust to walk my dog are are Senators?
Yup. This is a step toward screaming for impeachment. And if they do that, expect the RINOs on the "Gang of 14" to vote in it's favor.
I don't think so, Frist looked ready to spit nails.
You are certainly correct about them playing along with the kooks who are now the base of the Democrat Party.
Over on DU, there is a DUmmie who made this suggestion yesterday.
The Dims *publicly* call for a "Super secret closed
door meeting of the Senate", and then proceede to
tell the press, in detail, what they plan to
accuse Republicans of in that meeting...theatrics...
meant to smear the republicans with accusations
that they will not be able to publicly defend
themselves from, without revealing what happened
in that meeting, and be accused of "leaking"..
even though the only things that are going to
be said, are a bunch of screeching unfounded
accusations by a bunch of posturing Dimocrap
buffoons.
And they are threatening to do this every day????
What a bunch of temper tantrum throwing
little girls these whiney Dimocrap
loserist DimoGenerates are. Yes, Martha...
They *are* that big a bunch of traitorous
cowardly wussy liars, that would sink that low.
E-mail the RSCC and tell them to stand up and if the Dems want am investigation of Plameleak, then they must expose Wilson's lies. Tell them the true story must get out: that Plame & Wilson, along with other CIA officers, conspired to bring down a president and that Wilson has lied consistently since his return from Niger.
Once again the democrats are on the offense and the GOP is playing defense
GRANDSTANDING 101. The closed session is only so the demcRATS can get even more TV time than normal. They will drone on about things brought up in the closed to the press session that would have been of zero interest had the session been "open". They are freaking since no one is paying hommage to their drivel and it unnerves them.
Then again when a Senator like Barbara Boxer opens her mouth, nothing more than sheer stupidity is on parade. That can't help there TV image.
Please we want to hear from Boxer, again and again and again.
This is none of the President's business. It is important that he not interfere in any way in the Senate's procedures. It is Frist's job to handle the Senate.
Wrong chamber to impeach Bush from. That needs to start in the House, like it did with Clinton. Of course Rats don't read the Constitution ...
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