Why God Invented C-SPAN

Another GOPer walks into a wall, eyes wide open.
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Won't wonders never cease?

Marsha Marsha Marsha!

I was just watching that video on Wonkette. Al Gore got some nice digs in, especially the last one about whether Blackburn objected to people participating in private business. She was all big and bad at the beginning but by the end he had her playing defense.

Especially when one is a "conservative" @sshole trying to smear the guy who's been trying to save the planet for 30 years.

Oh, c'mon. She's just... um.... concerned. You know: For her constituents. I mean, she's never even heard of this (whatsitcalled?), Kleiner-Perkins, is it? Just trying to get to the bottom of it all, poor thing. Then Big Bad Al has to sigh and laugh and make her feel all small and petty and underhanded -- wonder how he did that.

I think every American knows the truth: Al Gore is reponsible for not only the evil profiteering of the environmental movement, but also the general malaise that has settled on our country. His management over the past eight years caused us to become increasingly reliant on foreign alternative energy sources, not to mention the useless war we failed to become involved in and the economic calamity we stupidly avoided by reigning in the financial sector.
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Wait . . . that doesn't sound right. I may be mistaken . . .

The esteemed Gentlewoman from Tennessee needs to pull her head out of her rectum.

Another broken Obama promise:
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/armenian_revenge.asp

Just when I think Republicans in Congress cannot be that stupid. I'm proven wrong, yet again.

Of course it's Al Gore's greed that is at the root of Blackburn's question and the desire of her corporate patrons and benefactors to keep burning down the planet for money.

jsfox -- congressional stupidity is an inexhaustible natural resource.

I kind of enjoyed the give and take with the Newt that followed.
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He submitted 38 "bold and innovative" suggestions in his written statement.
Waxman- "Your ideas are not bold. You are fear mongering."
and "You say there is not a problem but you have 38 ways to address it and no way to pay for it."

"I'm not making accusations," Rep Blackburn explained helpfully. "I'm making insinuations."

Interesting reading re waterboarding
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http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/24/why-dont-they-claim-al-nashiris-waterboarding-worked/#more-4019

Gore in response to Art's quote "I know exactly what you're doing" That he was laughing at her was just icing.

What to make of this? http://www.climatedepot.com/a/429/Report-Democrats-Refuse-to-Allow-Skeptic-to-Testify-Alongside-Gore-At-Congressional-Hearing

Boy, I'm glad they got the guy who was elected president eight years ago in front of a committee so they could go after him for all he did wrong. They should do that more often.

PNNTO: Yeah. The great thing about having Gore on this issue is that he's not going to be surprised by any Congressional antics.

Hey spob, why don't you start your own blog? That way when you fling absolutlely unrelated content into a thread for no apparent reason, you'll have a place to do it that won't label you rude and hence discredited before you start.

spob:
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Did you read the full text of his speech? He says at one point: I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view of that history has not changed.
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In other words, everyone knows he believes it was genocide, but since Turkey-Armenian reconcilliation talks are currently underway, and genocide is a loaded term for both sides, he elected to refer to the events in the way Armenians themselves refer to it, by calling it the Meds Yeghern, or "great catastrophe".
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This was not in anyway a backing off of his campaign promise. It was a nuanced and calculated approach to try to keep things calm so the Turkey-Armenian normalization process can continue.

PD - Actually, the last splooge link was kind of fun. The "expert denied the right to testify" authored an article in the American Spectator on "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS," and is an absolutely looney-tunes Thatcherite Brit. On the bright side, he like Sudoku, so he can't be ALL bad . . .

Here's the guy who wanted to horn in on todays's Congressional hearings...thanks spob....
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In an article entitled "The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS", written for the January 1987 issue of The American Spectator, he argued that "there is only one way to stop AIDS. That is to screen the entire population regularly and to quarantine all carriers of the disease for life. Every member of the population should be blood-tested every month ... all those found to be infected with the virus, even if only as carriers, should be isolated compulsorily, immediately, and permanently."
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Truly a scientific force to be reckoned with!

sigh

They didn't allow a gravity "skeptic" to testify either. The fix was in!

I'd imagine that spob frequently dines with climate change deniers, AIDS deniers, Holocaust deniers, round-Earth deniers, Newtonian physics deniers . . . must make for fun dinner parties.