LEAHY on assuming judiciary chair: Bush should be TERRIFIED

[yurbud]

We need more democrats to start talking like this.

But since the election, that outrage has turned into inspiration, and it's an inspiration he passed on to the crowd tonight. Like the speakers before him, Leahy was funny, thankful, exuberant... but there was an edge that was very serious. He related a conversation where he was recently asked if President Bush should be "worried" that he was now to be Chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. The crowd started cheering.

"No, no" he said, calming the crowd, as if to be prepared for a softening of his rhetoric.

"No, he shouldn't be worried. He should be terrified."

And the room exploded.

Leahy went on to assure the crowd that, unlike "some in the administration," he'd "actually read the Constitution," and went on to promise that no judges nominated to the federal bench who would ignore that Constitution would ever get past his committee.

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[Tatiana]

1. Here also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2848855

[yurbud]

3. here's to a SECOND hundred votes then .

[fooj]

2. God. This is great news.

Thanks for the thread. I love the way Leahy is taking NO prisoners.

[David Zephyr]

4. Leahy makes me proud to be a Democrat.

:thumbsup:

[LSparkle]

5. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Vee haff vays of making you TALK ... about all dat bad schtuff dat you did!"

I cannot wait until January!

[QuestionAll...]

6. but I thought Conyers was up for that chair?...

please advise.

[Shakespeare]

8. Conyers is in the House, Leahy's in the senate. n/t

[QuestionAll...]

10. thanks! omg, a double whammy then! yehaaaaaaa!

that may be what Bush Sr was actually slobberingly tearful about earlier today.

[evlbstrd]

9. Leahy is in the Senate.

Conyers is in the House.

[Shakespeare]

7. Awesome. Absolutely awesome.

Cheney's gonna wish he'd never been so nasty to Leahy on the Senate floor.

No, YOU go fuck YOURSELF, Mr. Vice President.

[madokie]

11. and no mr vice-president we don't want to watch

[opihimoimoi]

12. LOL

[yurbud]

13. Leahy would be a lot more polite: "Mr. Vice President, if you don't mind, could you contort...

yourself in such a manner that you are penetrating yourself with your own genetalia? Someone on my staff can assist you if you have trouble bending that far..."