Breaking: Reid announces Senate to stay in session 24/7

[MonkeyFunk]

to deal with Iraq.

Just breaking on MSNBC.

[CottonBear]

1. Holy cow! Break out the coffee!

:woohoo:

[blondeatlast]

45. Not for Senator Reid, though--he once read his own book for 8 hours straight

on the Senate floor--and neever forget he won't drink coffee!

[CottonBear]

51. That's right. Mormons don't drink coffee do they?

I didn't know about him reading his book for 8 hours! :)

Was it Strom Thurmond or Robert Byrd who had cots brought to the senate floor?

[xultar]

2. I suppose it's o.k. to like him now No?

[iconoclastic cat]

5. Sure, go ahead and like anyone you want.

But liking the guy doesn't portend future effectiveness.

[mzmolly]

41. You've got 24 hours

GO! 23:59, 23:58, 23:57, 23:56 ... :P

[babylonsister]

3. Whoa! Excellent!!! That's something of a filibuster... nt

[NNN0LHI]

4. Sounds like he is getting serious about this stuff n/t

[Richard Steele]

Sounds like someone has a cunning plan. I hope it's us, for once. nm

[zabet]

6. Off to the Greatest...

This is exciting news!
:woohoo:

[madokie]

7. well by gawd its about time to get serious

if that is what it is

[bdamomma]

8. hmmm....may be our voices are being heard???

keep calling,e-mailing and faxing those reps and senators. I just faxed Nancy Pelosi telling her implement Impeachment proceedings. I am not playing with these people no more.

[Catherine Vincent]

9. WTF?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. Does he have any specific legislation in mind?

[babylonsister]

11. Just flipped it on; not a word now. Guess it's not all that important.

:eyes: :mad:

[Ganja Ninja]

12. There was an earlier thread where Senator Feingold was ...

said to have told someone to expect something big on Tuesday.

[bdamomma]

17. could it be stopping funding the invasion??? oh silly me,

to think of something like that.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. Here's a link to that thread but there not much in the way of ..

revealing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1345697

[wiggs]

13. Really interesting in the context of so many Pugs criticizing Iraqi Parliament for

vacationing....

[spinbaby]

14. But, but...

How will they get to their fund raisers? Oh, the humanity!

[berni_mccoy]

15. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! K&EFFIN-R!

:kick: PUT THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE!!!!!

[peace13]

16. Link? n/t

[NNN0LHI]

20. Reported on MSNBC. I heard it too n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

26. No

I haven't yet figured out how to link to my television set. I use Explorer 6.0 :shrug:

[TransitJohn]

32. ...

:spray: :rofl:

[Tesha]

48. Networking your TV...

Rich Tennant has got your back...

http://www.the5thwave.com/gallery/comp_networking.html



Tesha

[npincus]

18. Excellent.

Those motherf*ckers should be crazy-glued to their seats and kept there until they have the votes to override Chimp's veto )to defund war).

[Tesha]

49. Uhhh, wouldn't that require, uhh, *DIAPERS*??? The horror!! (NT)

[cally]

19. Hasn't Reid planned to do this for some time

in order to prevent recess appointments? I was thinking this morning that it would be a great plan for the Dems to stay in session in August in contrast to the Iraqi parliament.

[TahitiNut]

21. Through August? No recess?

Sure. Right. The tantrums would be endless.

[bigtree]

22. heh

good

[TwilightGardener]

24. Well, the troops are in Iraq in 130-degree heat 24/7. Only fair!

[Beelzebud]

25. Fair would be for them to do it with the AC off...

[myrna minx]

27. Interesting. I'm intrigued about what will happen tomorrow.

Sen. Feingold has alluded to some big doings on Tuesday. We could use some non-diaper related good news.

[mzmolly]

42. What could it be?

Will we vote on the house bill to end the war?

[myrna minx]

52. Wouldn't that be fantastic?! I'm not sure *what's* in the hopper.

At least bu$h won't be able to do recess appointments of Joe Camel, the Wallmart smiling incubus or some other corporate mascot at this time.

[AndyA]

28. Goodbye, recess appointments. Sorry, Bush.

Now maybe the GOP will get serious and deal with some of the business the House has passed that is stagnating in their "to do" bin.

[lonestarnot]

54. Yeah recess appointments! Ack! ahhahahahaha

:applause:

[Renew Deal]

29. Good

Though I doubt that anything will actually get done. Their going to need to stay there for weeks.

[Larkspur]

30. That big Congressional poll drop last month was sure a good motivater for Reid

who was stung by the sudden drop.

Good for Reid for doing what is right.

[libnnc]

31. Going to the mattresses? 'Bout freaking time.

[robinlynne]

33. way to go. I was thinking, I doubt they will recess over august. I'm guessing they'll keep some sort

of quorum so Bush can't make more recess appointments.

[jojo54]

34. Ya know, the irony of this is....

it's like a slap in the faces of the Iraqi parliment and Bushco too. Shows just how much * thinks vacation is more important than saving the lives of any more American soldiers.

[jsamuel]

35. This is the kind of hard line approach John Edwards has been advocating for!

YAY!

[jgraz]

36. Is this being reported anywhere?

I haven't seen it mentioned on CNN, Raw, MSNBC or on google or yahoo news. Anyone have confirmation of this?

[bigtree]

38. MSNBC

just ran with it

[jgraz]

40. Edit: yep, thinkprogress has it

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/16/reid-filibuster

Go Harry! Let's call and lend them some support.

[LittleClarkie]

37. GIVE EM HELL HARRY!

I don't care what y'all say, I like this guy.

[blogslut]

39. Sweet

I like this move.

[Deb]

43. Who will be the 1st Repub warmonger to read the entire Bible on Tues?

You just know the GOP leadership is contemplating it. :D

[MonkeyFunk]

44. no

this isn't an old-school filibuster. It's just not adjourning. There's no cloture motion in play.

[Deb]

46. No Kidding!! This move really kicks!

Then a 4am roll call with the farmers of America is in order.

"Will the clerk call the roll!"

:hangover:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

47. I've Been Waiting So Long For This. Seriously.

For so long now I've thought privately "If I were Harry I would keep the senate open 24/7 until things get done". I've thought that so many times and always wished so much he would do something so ballsy.

Go get 'em Harry!

:toast:

[Cameron27]

50. K&R

I love it, the RWer's shouldn't mind, their prez said it was *hard work* after all.

[lonestarnot]

53. Yeah!

:applause:

[jazzjunkysue]

55. They all want their jobs so bad: They can just do their jobs, for a change.

Popcorn, please.:poocorn: