In an embarrassing and egotistical move, Sen. Mitch McConnell has shut down the U.S. Senate:
Overshadowed by the hype of Barack Obama’s victory lap on the Senate floor today is a simmering dispute between Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over President Bush’s remaining judicial nominees.
McConnell has essentially shut down the Senate floor this afternoon by forcing the Senate clerk to read aloud the entire 500 page global warming bill. So if legislative language is your thing, turn on C-SPAN and watch the Senate at its best, or worst, depending on your perspective.
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12 responses so far ↓
1 BILked // Jun 4, 2008 at 3:14 pm
This is hilarious listening to all the big words and legalese trying to be read by the clerk
2 Not My Real Name // Jun 4, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Heard McConnell on Rush today saying that if this bill passes, gas will go up 50 cent per gallon. Screw that.
3 The Tyler // Jun 4, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I guess I’m the only one that’s turned on by the reading of this bill by the clerk.
4 Terri // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Yeah, well, McConnell says a lot of things that he’s full of shit about.
5 Judy // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Where is Lunsford? He should release a press statement about McConnell’s opposition to the climate bill and his actions to shut down the Senate? Why wait to focus attention on Mitch?
6 kilowat // Jun 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I know it’s going to cost us more, but we have to find other fuel besides fossil fuel, more wind farms, more solar electric for states that it would work in.
the next heating unit i put in will be the geothermal unit
7 jeffersonpoole // Jun 4, 2008 at 5:00 pm
reading a bill that was just proposed is not the same as “shutting down the senate.”
8 jake // Jun 4, 2008 at 5:01 pm
It’s 500 pages.
That effectively kills the senate for, like, ever.
I couldn’t read 500 pages in 5 days’ time.
9 kilowat // Jun 4, 2008 at 5:31 pm
they have been reading since 12:50 ET over six hours
10 jake // Jun 4, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Poole–
From Red State: Mitch McConnell Shuts Down the Senate
11 kilowat // Jun 4, 2008 at 7:50 pm
another quote from mitch today
McConnell (R-Ky.) believes Reid (D-Nev.) has backtracked on a promise to clear a significant number of Republican judicial nominees, but Democrats are becoming more and more hesitant to give Bush judges a lifelong appointment to the federal bench in the waning months of this White House.
“The Democratic majority has refused to honor its commitments,” McConnell said. “It apparently believes that commitments do not matter in the United States Senate, and that actions do not have consequences.”
One of those consequences, apparently, is a complete shut down of the Senate.
12 Yellow Dog // Jun 5, 2008 at 6:55 am
kilowat: I have geothermal. Cost about three times the equivalent heat pump, and saves more on AC than on heat, but I love it, love it, love it.
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