Kerry at press conference

[fedupinBushcountry]

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/pl/021103kerry&curPhoto=9

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., center, speaks as Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second right, and Sen. Harry Reid,D-Nev., look on at a news conference at the Capitol, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005, in Washington. Congress hurried toward approval Thursday of an emergency aid package that would spend well over $1 billion a day for recovery needs of victims of Hurricane Katrina. Democrats and Republicans agreed that much had gone wrong

I hope this will be on C-Span.

[Mass]

1. I knew he was working on this type of help.

[kerrygoddess]

2. More on the press conference

Democratic Leaders to Boycott Republican Led Katrina Committee
September 8th, 2005
Democratic congressional leaders announced today at a press conference that they intended “to boycott a proposed Republican-led congressional committee to investigate the administration’s readiness and response to the storm.”

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=471

[whometense]

3. picture

[Mass]

4. Any video of this press conference

I have not heard Kerry on this subject, so we can see thru his emails and the quotes in the media he is very mad.

It would be nice to have direct quotes if he said something here.

[whometense]

5. Haven't been able to find anything yet.

There's a pretty good descriptive post at the American Prospect here: http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/09/index.html#007639

BTW, I just saw Susan Collins and Holy Joe on the NewsHour. She was absolutely nauseatingly disingenuous about the whole inquiry thing. I swear to god she said, "I'm sure not including the democrats in the planning was an oversight..."

I swear. It was that bad and worse. Wake up Maine, you can do a whole lot better.

[Mass]

6. My husband saw it and told me it killed the little respect he had left for

those (two Collins and Lieberman)

I hate these computer screens, Kerry just came on the floor to vote, but I could not see him or with whom he was talking. I just recognized his body language and his name (funny they say he is stiff).

[karynnj]

7. I can't believe Lieberman didn't care that he was

excluded from the planning. How could they forget to include the Democrats in the planning for a bi-partisan committee? Did they forget there were two parties.

[whometense]

8. It was so stupid I could hardly

believe what I was hearing. Just sugarcoat everything and it'll be okay. They are as reality-deficient as Bush is.

The segment made me think about the Gang of 14 moderate coalition. There's a sense of self-satisfaction there that just makes me ill. They seem to believe that by detaching themselves from interaction with the left and the right they are setting themselves up as the righteous. Ain't so. They're just delusional. Chiding the left for being alarmist and shrill and excusing the right ("I'm sure they didn't mean it that way...")

gag.

[TayTay]

9. There's that Joe-mentum again

full speed ahead going toward the wrong end of the field.

Honestly, how can Joe sell out the Dems like that? doesn't he own a TV? Can't he see who was holding press conferences saying that the Dems are not going to participate in sham investigations.

That's it. Leibermann is off my Hannakuh card list for good.

[fedupinBushcountry]

10. This will be on C-Span

in a few minutes 10:31 p.m. eastern.

[TayTay]

11. OMG, he towers over everyone else there.

I know he's tall, but I never saw the height difference in such stark relief before. Goodness that's a big man.

[Mass]

12. Thanks.