Crowd and speakers 'communicate' over impeachment!

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2007/7/18/2335/96352/4#c4

According to Atrios commenter Hecate, who was there, there was a lot of back-and-forth between the crowd and the speakers.

Reid stepped up to podium and there was a lot of yelling about impeachment. He said, "Friends, give me your attention." Voice from the crowd yells out, "NO! You give us your attention! Impeach now!" The MoveOn and VoteVets folks were beside themselves trying to control the crowd and "keep it respectful." Wasn't going to happen. Congressman Lews got a lot of cheers, as did Boxer. Patrick Murphy, as well. Levin, who spoke late, said, I hear you. The American people are way out in front of us. They've been way out in front of us. Barb McKulski said, "We're voting on the war tomorrow morning. You and I know that there are some other kinds of votes we need to have as well. I couldn't bellieve it... Shelia Jackson Lee got a lot of cheers. But every time some establishment Dem would say that Bush led us to war under false pretenses, folks would yell out, "You let him! You voted for this war! Cut the funding!" Senators and Congress critters kept saying "We need to be unified. You need to direct this anger at the Republicans." People kept yelling "Impeachment is not off the table." Really one of the most amazing things I've seen...

Someone asked about Pelosi, and Hecate responded:

Oh, yeah, and it shook her up. Cut her speech a bit short to let Durbin take over. I love me some Nancy, but I think it's good for these folks to understand that we're sick of business as usual while people die. Levin's right; we've been out in front of them for a long time and they need to haul ass to catch up. I just kept visualizing Nancy's spine getting stronger and stronger the whole time that I could see her and sending that energy to her. It shook a lot of them up; they were expecting a nice supportive crowd and a pep rally. There was a lot of that, but there was also a lot of anger directed at them.

[leftchick]

1. deserved anger

and what the fuck is up with the Iran vote? I was going to suggest impeachment before an Iran attack but all of the Democrats apparently voted for it!

:grr:

[monmouth]

2. What a great report on the stuff we cannot see. Many thanks. rec.

[jojo54]

3. Give those in the audience Kewpie dolls!

At least they got all the senators attention and let them know, in no uncertain terms, that the American people want this asshole and his gang out of office now!

[blogslut]

4. Good

I'm glad our elected folk got to hear directly from the people that elected them. I wish I could have been there. Good on them.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. I'm glad to hear that our elected officials are getting the message; Tough love

is what's needed here.

[roguevalley]

6. god bless them all for telling the leadership to lead. bless them all.

[Senator]

7. Make It A Long Hot Summer -- Maybe They'll Melt

But please make the message clear.

Impeach Both Now.

No "impeach only cheney," no "hit them with your purse," no accepting False Meme rationalizations."

Only Impeachment ... will do.

It IS our positive agenda.

It is our ONLY moral, patriotic, (and legal, legislative, electoral, diplomatic...) option.

Get on with it.

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[Swamp Rat]

8. yep

[EFerrari]

9. A reality check can be a healthy thing. You go!

:applause:

[EFerrari]

10. kick

[pacalo]

11. Thanks for this because I had been wondering if there had been any interaction.

And, btw, having been spoiled by DUers' practice of providing links, I would have liked to have read the original Atrios post & watched the video but no links were provided.

[pacalo]

12. I tried to recommend this but couldn't due to the "24-hour" rule.

What is up with that? Some of the posts with scads of recommendations seem to stay up top for days. I'm confused.

[AzDar]

13. The PEOPLE will be heard.......very cool. Thanks for posting.

:patriot: