Open Threads

While Hillary is being lionized this weekend in The Washington Post this week-end, Robert Novak points out some other behavior that seems a little bit more typical:

SENATORIAL DISCOURTESY

The veteran Republican Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico had no sooner begun reading his opening statement at Thursday’s Senate Budget Committee meeting than 80-year-old Sen. Ernest (Fritz) Hollings of South Carolina erupted in loud guffaws.

Hollings was reacting to Domenici’s defense of President Bush’s economic policy, including tax cuts. Hollings was joined in derisive laughter by at least two other Democratic senators: first-termers Hillary Clinton of New York and Deborah Stabenow of Michigan.

Domenici, a former Budget Committee chairman, interrupted his statement to say that he was not aware he was telling jokes. The Democratic senators subsided but did not apologize.

You can buy a New York election, but you just can’t buy class.

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The folks at Protein Wisdom have bust out a brand spanking new look. Pretty Snazzy.

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The best (and only, to my knowledge) review of Alan Keye’s Is Making Sense.

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Andrea Harris has a humorous reason as to why the Guantanamo Bay detainees were hooded for the flight.

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WOAH, BABY! I thought I was going to be in for a dull Friday night at home reading when all of a sudden I hear on MSNBC that they have new videotape of the Marin County Mullah aka Suleyman al-Lindh aka Sulayman al-Faris aka John Walker Lindh aka treasonous rat bastard from California. Ok. Maybe I just know him as the last name.

At any rate, I am gonna stay close to the tv tonight now, because I bet they only show the videotape once and I don’t want to miss it.

In a related note, I live in West Virginia (and I love it- if you don’t like it, stay the hell where you are and keep your comments to yourself), and it is just a special treat to listen to the AM talk radio and hear the southern West Virginians twang out the word ‘suleyman.’ ‘Guantanamo’ is almost as good. I think I am going to try to get a copy of today’s broadcast from Metro News and make a drinking game out of it (like that Wizard of Oz beer-chugging game).

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But this had me laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face.

“John did not take up arms against America,” his father, Frank Lindh, said yesterday.

Yeah, well, Mr. Lindh, you and your ex-wife, Marilyn Walker, seem to have launched a full-scale war against common sense.

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Groan. I might be going out for cocktails after work after all.

From the WaPo:

Hillary’s Big Adventure: A supportive spouse, surprisingly accepting colleagues, and a mandate to legislate. For Sen. Clinton, life is almost perfect. If only they weren’t still out to get her…

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