Thanks! you rock.

What are you trying to do... kill me? Kill me with that recipe for alcohol poisoning? ;~) I just don't have enough body mass [sigh]

Wandering by...

Pedinska, I skimmed, but I'll go back and see what you're looking for. In the meantime, feel free to post whateveryouwant at the Interrobang yourself.

Kathleen Sebelius is responding now...

I feel the cottony numbness of catatonia coming on.

Keith Olbermann's gonna have to pop a paper bag at us when she's done.

but I sure would like to see more emotion and more picking apart of Bush's lies.

I like the reality-check on the ovations.

Cocktailhag? A chilled French (Freedom!) grey goose vodka shooter for the Gov. on me. Join us?

Is it over yet?

The speech is done. Toast, even. But we still have another year to survive of hearing that man's excruciatingly irritating voice. I don't know how much more I can take. Surely, that sound should be defined as torture under the Geneva Conventions? Or at least under the Uniform Code of Military Conduct? Something? Somewhere?

How can Pelosi not choke on that intro?

Oh, hahaha, a tax joke.

We should "seriously" debate earmarks, publicly, but not telecomm immunity.

Interesting to watch Cheney and Pelosi's hands - when they appluad and how enthusiastically. Cheney looks like he's flapping about two dead fish. How fitting.

A standing O for a ban on cloning? From both sides of the aisle??!!

Are there buzzers, or small cattle prods in the Repub seats? It can't possibly be spontaneous....it is interesting (at this point) to speculate on what the different "rise rates" might be due to - varying tolerances to the electric current? Different thicknesses in derrier calluses??

Or are they keying in on Cheney's upper lip? He lifts it in a sneer (the one that masquerades as a smile) and they pop up out of their chairs?

Oh, NOLA caught everyone by surprise (me too)!

I wonder what Pelosi's reading? B thinks it's her H.S. yearbook. Small school.

STFD (Sit the Fark Down).

Freedom for Iraq and Iran (whether or not they want our version of it), but not for Palestinians. So much for "freedom".

Why is Pelosi applauding threats against Iran???

FISA comments commence and, apparently, the cattle prods are breaching colons on the repub side of the aisle. They're practically levitating now.

"Change conditions that create resentment" - duh.

Ok, I can get behind more money for AIDS initiatives, but they will be attached to abstinence and massive denials of reproductive rights to women in third world countries. In short, they will wreak their misogynistic revenge on those who can least afford it.

Ok. Time for some chugging.....

LOL!

Oh, man, that made my cheeks hurt. ;->

hm. Should have gotten that shot to her sooner....

Gently now.

Jebbie loves him some ponies.

ps, If the dentist has done less than well, once the novacaine wears off, the patient knows it! the root throbs. i wonder why we all aren't throbbing harder, sometimes.

it's morelike nitrous oxide, what's been happening.

Not on CSPAN...is the response not carried by CSPAN?

But we still have another year to survive of hearing that man's excruciatingly irritating voice.

But I'm more visual. It's that smarmy little smirk that makes me want to jump up and slap the screen. Thank goodness I don't have Bystander's shotgun.

Excuse me for being cynical, and I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that the specter amendment also grants the telecoms de facto immunity. With the government standing in for the telecoms in the suits against them, wont the administration then simply claim the state secrets exemption in court, and thus dismantle the suits? I simply cant see the administration not using the same tactics they have so many times in the past when confronted on this issue.

Chicken piccata accompanied a fresh beet and rocket salad topped with a dab or two of fresh tarragon-flavored goat cheese. Far too much pinot grigio.

Finally, a splash of Hennessey.... Okay, the pain is now bearable. Do I have anything new to say about this lying putz of a president...? Sadly, no. The only consolation is that he seems to be afflicted by terminal Dorian Gray syndrome. Which reminds me...can anyone tell if Cheney is still alive? Without a pocket mirror or a hatpin handy, I'm in no position to judge.

I was watching PBS, which is usually pretty good about responses and other speeches... They had Sebelius covered. David Brooks even gave her high marks for her delivery, noting how hard it is to sound "natural" under those circumstances.

...and, just for the record, it was not the screen that I wanted to slap.

Good point. My roots have been throbbing since the man announced he was running.

John W re: Spector's substitution. Yes. Spector's song and dance routine became transparent years ago. That amendment would halt actions just as effectively as total immunity. The admin's response to judicial subpeonas would be exactly the same as their response to Congressional ones.

Got a 12 and a 20. Take your pick.

That's why when I choose to watch, I watch via computer link. I do like my monitor. It functions as a brake on impulsive response. Almost failed with Kit Bond earlier today. There's not enough C2H5OH in my cupboard to save me.

Well, yes, but the screen is as close as any of us are going to ever get.....actually, to be honest, I was thinking more along the lines of a strong right cross....

But I'm more visual. It's that smarmy little smirk that makes me want to jump up and slap the screen. Thank goodness I don't have Bystander's shotgun.

And I love how when Cheney stands up, he looks like some evil wizard skeksi from The Dark Crystal.

I think I even saw him tear a podling's head off and suck its essence out from its neck. The repeated standing of the Republicans in attendance was actually them jumping up to catch the headless, lifeless bodies of the podlings Cheney threw their way.

Congressional Republicans must be fed Cheney's leavings or they get restless and stop mating.