You gotta love stories like this...from the Democratic Underground's Top Ten Conservative Idiot's list:
Picture an SUV rolling over an ice cream sandwich, and you'll have a good idea of what happened to Norm Coleman (R-[Minnesota]) last week at a Senate hearing on the so-called "oil-for-food" scandal. The freshman senator has been doing his best to become this century's Joe McCarthy by creating long lists of people whom he is convinced were in cahoots with Saddam Hussein (including, apparently, the former secretary to Pope John Paul II and the former head of the African National Congress Presidential office). Unfortunately, one of those people called his bluff last week and Coleman learned the hard way that British politicians are quite a bit tougher than the home-grown variety. Scotsman George Galloway, famous anti-war member of the British Parliament, came to Washington D.C. to confront Coleman... and handed him his ass on a platter.
From:
I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country...
...to:
I told the world that Iraq, contrary to your claims did not have weapons of mass destruction. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to al-Qaeda. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that Iraq had no connection to the atrocity on 9/11 2001. I told the world, contrary to your claims, that the Iraqi people would resist a British and American invasion of their country and that the fall of Baghdad would not be the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning. Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies...
...it was quite a sight to behold.
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Not only does it pain me that Coleman is from my home state of Minnesota, but once again I find the so-called liberal media claim baseless here. I get the headlines from five different newspapers each day and I didn't hear about this until I took a stroll through the Deomocratic Underground.
And another thing. The fillibuster compromise. I must admit that I loved - LOVED - watching Frist realize that he truly is a lame duck who was proved to be ineffectual by the wonderful John McCain. Is it wrong that it made me giggle with delight? I hope not.
Frist I think is very misguided right now. Either that or he's so focused on getting the religious conservative vote wrapped up for his 2008 bid for the White House that he doesn't see anything else.
Either he forgot, or someone forgot to tell him that the Senate is all about a voice for the minority. That's why you have two senators from each state. Delaware gets two, Texas gets two. It's not like the House where representatives are dependent on population size.
But let's face it. You don't get this far in a career without knowing how government works. He's no fool, he's simply Bush's go-to guy. Happy to be of service and always willing to go that extra mile down the slimey path of political mucky-muck.