Senator Whitehouse's take on the health care bill

[shraby]

and I trust Whitehouse implicitly. His words on the floor were brought into DailyKos in this diary.

A reckoning," a "day of judgement," "Americans will know they were being lied to." Music to these ears. "They (the GOP) are terrified." More music.

Didn't see any open thread and couldn't stand to let Sen. Whitehouse's strong speech about GOP lying and the reasons for it to go unnoted. Even though I've very mixed feelings and feel demoralized, I think HRC should be passed.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, speaking just now in the Senate, seen on C-Span, delivered on of his best orations that I've heard. He does not mince words and knows how to use them. He quoted Republicans talking about the terrible turn of the GOP to the right. Then he started talking about why the GOP was acting so outrageously.


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[kstewart33]

1. Whitehouse is the best. Thanks for posting. nt

[tigereye]

2. kick

[Captain Hilts]

3. I trust Whitehouse too. I'm leaning in favor but want the House to bargain hard. nt

[blue neen]

4. I wish I would have seen him give the speech. It sounds awesome.

"There will come a day of judgement.

That, Mr. President, is why they are terrified."

[lamp_shade]

5. It was the MOST POWERFUL speech I've heard yet in this debate.

He gave a shorter version of it a week or so ago and I remember saying to myself "He needs to give that same speech again and again". My wish was granted.

[lamp_shade]

6. BTW, John Kyl attempted later to rebut some of Whitehouse's points. He was appalled.

It was amusing to watch.

[Hannah Bell]

7. Why do I disbelieve Whitehouse as champion of the little guys' interests? Oh yeah...

Sheldon + Maxson
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Sheldon         Sheldon
+ Deforest      + Ogden
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Sheldon         Sheldon 
+ Prentice(1)   + Whitehouse
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Prentice        Whitehouse +
+ Schley (2)    Alexander (3)
|               |
Schley +        Whitehouse +
Todd            Rand
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Christy Todd    Whitehouse +
Whitman         Thornton
       

(1) = W.S.P. Prentice, 1st cousin twice removed of Florence
Lincoln, wife of Wm. A. Rockefeller (great-nephew of John D.).
 Also first cousin once removed of E.P. Prentice, husband of
Alta Rockefeller, daughter of John D.

(2) Reeve Schley, Chase Bank VP, son & brother of Chase
Bank directors, brother of G.B. Schley, Director American
Express, ASARCO (founded 1899 as American Smelting And
Refining Company by Henry H. Rogers, William Rockefeller),
Chase Bank Director, husband of Elizabeth Baker, sister of
powerful First National bankster George Fisher Baker, whose
daughter married powerful bankster John Schiff (Kuhn-Loeb),
whose grandson married Al Gore's daughter.

(3)  Granddaughter of railroad magnate & Wells Fargo exec
Charles Crocker (Central Pacific, transcontinental RR).

(4) Many etcs., including W.S.P. Prentice's brother-in-law's
"Sugar Trust" family:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9503EFD81539E033A2575AC1A9649C94619ED7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801E3DD1238E233A25755C0A96E9C94639ED7CF

Harrison, Alfred Craven: sugar refiner, born Philadelphia,
Feb. 20, 1846; son of George Leib and Sarah Ann (Waples)
Harrison; married, Kate de Forest Sheldon, daughter of William
Crawford; children: Mary de Forest, Kate de Forest, Alfred C.,
'William F., Mildred. After leaving the university he entered
business as a sugar refiner. Director Western Savings Fund,
Pennsylvania Co., North Pennsylvania Railroad Co.,
Philadelphia National Bank, Philadelphia & Bound Brook
R.R., Franklin Institute and American Pulley Co.; manager of
the Merchants' Fund. Clubs: Rittenhouse, Philadelphia,
Country, Racquet, Union League, Corinthian Yacht
(Philadelphia); Yacht. Address, 1616 Locust St., Philadelphia.

Whose daughter, Kate Harrison, also married a Prentice, cousin
of WSP, & whose granddaughter Kate married Benjamin
Brewster Jennings, founder Standard Oil of NY (SOCONY).

BB Jennings being the grandson of OB Jennings, original
Rockefeller investor/backer, & Esther Judson Goodsell,
sister of William Rockefeller's wife Almira; also grandson of
Benjamin Brewster, another original Rockefeller backer.

Daughter Mary having married P. Chase Jerome, whose first wife
= daughter of Standard Oil heiress LS Bostwick...

& etc.