Official President Gore testimony thread No.1

[Greeby]

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan3_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

Lets consider the main one, :popcorn:

[Me.]

1. Has It Started?

Because it's not on any of my channels

[AllexxisF1]

2. Ohh Yea

It would be great if we could have one continous thread, but oh well. I got CNN Pipeline fired up and work seems to be calm this morning so bring on soon to be President Gore.

[Hepburn]

3. The American Indians in Virginia program...

...is still on for me. I assume they are going to go to Gore soon, right?

[lisa58]

6. me too...

...hurry....I been waiting for weeks for this!

[Hepburn]

9. I am on the West Coast....

...and I set my alarm to make sure I awas up early enough to let the dog out, feed her, make coffee and wake up FULLY in time to watch!

Hearing coming on right now.

[soothsayer]

Why can't they open casinos here! We must have had LOADS of

injuns. Damn virginia! So puritanical. Drives me mad.

[MiniMe]

4. Must be running late

[Hepburn]

5. G' Morning....mini....

...and I think you have to be right on that.

Nice to see you again for another hearing!

[MiniMe]

125. Oops, missed your reply

Al did great! And Inhofe is an asshole!

[shield20]

7. WTF? Don't see ol' "Carbon-neutral" any longer on any channels? nt

[lisa58]

8. It's starting!

[Greeby]

10. C-Span3 has switched to the hearing nt

[malta blue]

11. AL!!

:bounce: :bounce:

[Hepburn]

12. Can we get some K&Rs to kick this to the greatest? TIA! n/t

[Greeby]

13. Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States!

:patriot:

[jojo54]

14. It figures that some freeptard ruins that beautiful opening

presentation of President Gores' speech.

[Hepburn]

15. What the heck is Barton yapping about???

Some kind of rules about members of different committees not being allowed to participate.

[ms liberty]

16. off to the Greatest Page! n/t

[Hepburn]

19. Thanks....

...this is an important hearing.

Wish Barton would shut his yap!

[NightWatcher]

17. I'm a partisan hack, I'll admit it

but are all repukes complete evil raving asshole morons?

[Hepburn]

23. I cannot see the audience....

...but maybe Bolton loaded it with a bunch of Repukes...and he wants them to participate.

More yapping from Bolton....about a parlimentary rule. About seats for others.

And more BS from him: Another rule he is bringing up.

Hey, Bolton ~~ STFU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

34. I've evolved into a partisan hack over the past six years or so

and just when I think there is a glimmer of hope that there is at least one Con who is a reasonable, open minded elected official, they prove they are all evil raving asshole morons.

Barton is Exhibit A for today.

[Rose Siding]

18. Parliamentary inquiry from repub Barton

He wants more repubs on the DIAS! Sorry, fool, it's in the discretion of the chair.

[Rose Siding]

20. 2 MORE parliamentary inquiries. He's STALLING

[Norquist Nemesis]

21. The Cons start in before they even began!

:argh:

[Rose Siding]

25. He's pissed that Gore didn't submitted testimony in writing 48 hours ago

[Rose Siding]

30. Again, Dingell tells him that's within the discretion of the chair

[Norquist Nemesis]

49. And it is!

That's something that the Cons used before every time a Democrat would take a breath to speak. Cons: "*gavel bang* The gentlman is out of order! The gentleman is out of order!"

[Norquist Nemesis]

46. Dingell should gavel his ass and just put Barton's obstruction tactics

toward his Q&A time.

[WinkyDink]

47. Tell him to go read 3,000 e-mails.

[napi21]

24. Can't Dingel gag Barton? What a jerk! n/t

[NightWatcher]

28. what a fuckwad

I wish that everyone could see this "ugliness" and then tell me that the repukes are number one

[Hepburn]

29. Sounds like he is trying to gag Gore on testifying.

What a total Repuke azzhole Bolton is!!!! :mad:

[Junkdrawer]

22. If you don't have the facts, run out the clock...

Stall...Stall...Stall...

[doublethink]

26. Exactly

[Greeby]

27. JUst turned on Faux (Coz I'm british and wanna see full screen)

Their caption reads "Gore refuses to hear GOP statement on global warming" :eyes:

Don't take long, do they?

[Norquist Nemesis]

52. Are you serious?

Honestly, you're kidding! That's just wrong!

[doublethink]

72. No he's not .....

I just clicked over to faux to see "Al Gore Refuses to hear GOP Statement on Global Warming" on their screen ...... okay back to Cspan ... faux sucks. :)

[Norquist Nemesis]

93. That's un-believable, and yet it's not n/t

[NightWatcher]

they keep flashing that caption up

Gore hasnt had the chance to say shit yet, fauxholes

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. Waaaaaah! Off the bat, Joe Barton WHINING about not getting his liars on the Dais. Waaaah!

Waaaah! Waaaah! :cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:

[in_cog_ni_to]

38. Barton has forgotten he's not the MAJORITY anymore!

:rofl::rofl: Dingell should throw his ass out.

[Rose Siding]

32. Hah! Dingell tells Barton he should have read Inconvenient Truth

[AlGore-08.com]

33. Maybe Barton should have watched the freakin' movie... ?

Or read the book?

Good frickin' greif...

[AllexxisF1]

35. Oh Brother

Dingell is great, the Repubs have no shame.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

36. Seems that Barton is playing for the tv audience with this sh*t! eom

[Rose Siding]

45. He's making himself look like an obstructionist fool.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. Yes! Totally backfiring on him! eom

[Hepburn]

37. I think Dingell has had enough of him.

Bolton still yapping about "the rules" re waiving written testimony. But Bolton says that he will not continue to press the point about written testimony.

Man, sound like Dingell when he is saying, "my good friend from Texas," that he is saying, "asshole!"

LMBO

[jojo54]

39. OMG Barton, give it up already!!!!!!!

Oops, spelling.

[malta blue]

40. OMG - Barton is killing me!

[hatrack]

41. There's a reason chairs have gavels

Use yours now, Mr. Chairman.

[Rose Siding]

42. Dingel cites the rule that lets him wave a rule

What a goppy load of wasted time. "One more parliamentary inquiry" :banghead:

[Hepburn]

43. Bolton....

....Still one more parlimentary objection re waiving opening statements.

Dingell's response: This is a rule which will be applied on the insistence of any member...and time consideration will be taken into account. (Paraphrase)

[Cameron27]

44. K&R

[Vadem]

50. I've never seen staffers standing up and hanging over the ...

chairs of the Congressmen before! It looks very strange!

[Greeby]

51. Hall (Puke-TX) shilling for the oil industry

:puke:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

Couldn't be more obvious, could it be? Geeze! eom

[WinkyDink]

55. Admitting we'd send our young to die for oil.

[AllexxisF1]

64. The Republicans are going to be fighting hard.

Yep here comes the fear mongers saying how terrible this world will be with no fossil fuels. Excuse me while I puke.

[Hepburn]

53. Who the heck is this Hall guy? R rep from TX.

Sounds like a oil company hack ~~ man, what a bilge of shit.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

57. More like whore than hack. eom

[Norquist Nemesis]

60. Yesterday, he declared a War on Energy

and made it clear he's on Energy's side (Energy = Big Oil)

[Turn CO Blue]

54. Jeepers, Hall isn't very subtle about whose pocket he's in, is he?

[Hepburn]

59. Whoa....

...what a TOTAL shill for the oil company.

[Horse with no Name]

82. I actually had a DU'er try to argue Asshat Ralph's

integrity.:eyes:
He is my rep and he is dirty from the word go.

[Rose Siding]

56. repub Hall- This assault on energy will increase our dependency on OPEC???

AND it will cost our military lives??? How the hell does he figure that?

[Hepburn]

62. Unbelievable....

....it is like the Oil Companies have a paid rep on the panel.

[Turn CO Blue]

63. Such hypocrisy talking about shipping jobs to China!

[Turn CO Blue]

67. and talking about COSTS - but no mention of cost of Iraq war to

secure more OIL for his corporate masters!

[NightWatcher]

65. shotgun in mouth, toe on trigger

This moron is killing me.
He just referenced the "kyoto-ites" those damned air breathers

[crispini]

58. Ralph Hall from Texas yapping about oil, oil, oil

:yawn: How innovative of him. NOT.

[Rose Siding]

69. Git off my lawn, ya danged kee-yo-to-ites.

:rofl:

[WinkyDink]

61. I guess "energy independence" = when we take over the world.

[Breeze54]

66. Wah!! Rethug is having a hissy fit!

What the F..?? He has no clue what to ask....yet?? :sarcasm:



Just stfu a-hole!

[Turn CO Blue]

70. Harnessing the energy of gasbag Hall would power a small city

[Breeze54]

88. lol

;)

[Greeby]

68. Ugh, Jabba The Hastert

Thankfully he isn't going to speak

[ms liberty]

71. The Replicans are terrified of Al Gore...

amazing how this one great man has them all frothing at the mouth!

[Norquist Nemesis]

80. Of course they are! They aided and abetted a stolen election

in every way to deny him the Presidency.

[liberalnurse]

121. That has been made

crystal clear now..........They just revealed their greatest fear.....they could not fake it any more...the fear is at panic level.

What a case breaking clue!!!!!!!!!!

[Greeby]

73. OK, now we're ready

Ladies and gentlemen, The President of the United States

[waiting for hope]

Amen!

[Vadem]

76. on CNN now, for the moment.....n/t

[tinfoilinfor2005]

74. on cnn now...

[Turn CO Blue]

75. Move so I can SEE him!

[waiting for hope]

77. Love the tie!

[quiet.american]

78. Excellent -- was that Al Gore shaking the hands of everyone on the committee?

Looked like a State of the Union entrance by the real president. :)

[karynnj]

79. Nice introduction by the man who now holds Gore's old HoR seat

Spoke of how Gore was on this issue when few were.

[Turn CO Blue]

83. I loved Al Gore, when loving Al Gore wasn't cool.

on edit: have to learn to type

[quiet.american]

84. Yes, well done. n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

85. Frankly, I'm a little surprised Barton wasn't demanding an intro

by Sen. Corker!

Yes, it was a nice intro!

[in_cog_ni_to]

81. PRESIDENT GORE! Woohoo!

:bounce:

[Greeby]

86. To Hall "We were friends before you went over to the dark side"

:spray:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

87. Fox is carrying...other networks shut it off...

unbelievable

[Norquist Nemesis]

96. Actually, I'm not suprised. Cons are loaded for bear on this one

and Faux has been prepping them for days. Cons probably sent over communiques on their antics to interrupt, obstruct, fillibuster and basically use every bullying tactic they can during Gore's testimony...They'll be feeding red meat as much as possible.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

104. nevermind...they cut it off too. msnbc went back to it, but not to listen,

only to have their little "is he or isn't he" panel discussion. It seems that no one is interested in what he has to say unless he's actually declaring. And maybe that's a good thing, because he is my first choice.

[Rose Siding]

89. "Our world faces a planetary emergency"

"I know it sounds shrill..."

[malaise]

92. Go Al go!

President in waiting.

[Turn CO Blue]

90. Reach across and do what history is calling for us to do.

Planetary emergency. Moral challenge to the nation. relationship between humanity and planet has been altered.

[karynnj]

91. Speaking of history calling for the US, as the natural leader of the world

to lead on this. Not partisan.

[Turn CO Blue]

94. Even though more skillful in exploiting the earth

the side effects outstrip the wisdom to use these powers that doesn't do more harm.

[Turn CO Blue]

95. "honorable" profession of politics...

I never took an opinion poll - I was in a mostly rural district.

Dow meters, one long opinion poll, I don't think the results for our citizens are all that good.

[Turn CO Blue]

97. Dingel, we owe your generation a great debt

you were part of a small group that saved the world. Won struggle against global fascism. Your generation came back transformed...having walked through the fire...came home with a deeper moral authority.

[Turn CO Blue]

99. Your generation gave us the Marshall plan, you knew it took

vision and a 50 year time frame. UN was established. Gen. Bradley said it's time that we steered by the stars and not by the passing ships.

Stood up and reached across the aisle.

[Turn CO Blue]

100. What we're facing is a crisis more serious than we've ever faced

Do what some people fear we don't have the capacity to fear we can't do. I know they're wrong.

[Turn CO Blue]

101. When there are enough people, learn what's at stake, it

can move very quickly.

516,000 people in the last few days have responded to an email request I sent out, that this hearing has been scheduled, and I'd like to tell the comittee I'm not by myself.

Algore.com - 100 contacts per second.

[Rose Siding]

98. Wow. So powerful. He's really laying it on-

Telling them that Congress holds the hopes of the world.

[Rose Siding]

102. 516,000 joined his message!!! 100 new contacts a second

:wow:

Calling on you to act...these are not normal times...I promise you, a day WILL come when our...grandchildren will ask what in God's name were they doing? Or they will ask, How did they find the uncommon courage...to do what some said was impossible?

[bananas]

110. I'm glad he met his goal

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=451690&mesg_id=451690

[ms liberty]

103. 516,000 emails to be delivered! WOOHOOO! n/t

[Turn CO Blue]

105. 10 CEO's of biggest corps, supporters of P. Bush

had a presser calling on Congress to act - address this issue.

[Turn CO Blue]

106. I promise you, a day will come when our children and gchildren

will look back and ask one of two questions:

Didn't they see the evidence - didn't they look at the reality? Did they think it was alright to keep dumping 70M tons of global warming pollution into..

Or they'll ask another question - how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy -- and do what some said was impossible, and shake things up and tell special interests - we're gonna do what's right!

[Turn CO Blue]

107. I'm gonna do my part.

[Greeby]

108. New Thread up, Admins please lock

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x462777

[tinfoilinfor2005]

109. msnbc now reporting on American Idol.

Priorities...

[Turn CO Blue]

111. The new evidence in last few shows may be worse than

we thought
The artic cap is disappearing faster than - could be as little as 34 year. Burning a whole in the top of the world in the ice cover. Won't come back in any timescale relevant to humans.

[Rose Siding]

112. "New evidence shows things are worse than we thought"

New studies in last 2 days....

oy

Glacial earthquakes...93 there were 7. This last year, 32.

[Turn CO Blue]

113. Drier soils leads to "kindling" (fires)

[Turn CO Blue]

114. do not have luxury of making this a polical football

[Sugarcoated]

123. LOL

I thought you were saying Rep. Dreier soiled himself

[Turn CO Blue]

124. Well, that too!

[Turn CO Blue]

115. Freeze CO2 emissions in US right now - then start reductions.

[Turn CO Blue]

116. Start using tax code to reduce taxes, make up difference

in CO2 taxes.

Right now, we are discouraging work and encouraging destruction of planet.

[Turn CO Blue]

117. Need to be part of a strong global treaty.

I'm in favor of Kyoto, but Kyoto as a brand has been demonized.

[Turn CO Blue]

119. Discussing the re-branding by Reagan of SALT ii with new name

[WinkyDink]

118. May I just say that the stark contrast between THIS MAN and Ape-Boy is SHOCKING.

Articulate.
Learned.
Personable.

I guess I need to think of this as the better door that opened when the 2000 one was slammed shut.

[bananas]

120. thread #2 has started

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=462777&mesg_id=462777

[AllexxisF1]

122. ...Here come the questions.

He is almost finished...and here comes the onslaught. Go get'em Al!