did anyone see that senator gordon smith speech on the senate floor?

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republican senator from montana. i just heard about it today. supposedly there were three people on the senate floor who actually heard it. anyway, i just watched the whole thing. the use of the word "criminal" is what has some people harumphing about it. you know, coming from a republican and all. in public.

sorry if there was already a thread! i don't read every iraq thread.

http://gsmith.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=254

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i mean, he genuinely seems sad. instead of blustery, you know?

of course, most people would say, well, yeah, NOW he says all this after the republicans lost and blah, blah...

he uses the word treasure a lot.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:38 (seventeen years ago) link

(he's from oregon, actually.) but yeah, the speech got a little bit of coverage, noted in various media. it seemed pretty heartfelt.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, sorry. oregon.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Did the Freepers explode?

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

probably. at this point i think the freepers are kind of gnawing off each other's legs or something. i don't know. the american right wing these days is too sad for me to even peek in on.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore. I believe we need to figure out how to fight the war on terror and to do it right. So either we clear and hold and build, or let's go home."

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the american right wing these days is too sad for me to even peek in on.

You're missing out. And 2007's bright spot amid the real grime and death will be the intellectual internecine warfare.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

did sen. tim johnson have any comment?

― bliss (blass), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link

this senator and now gerald ford from the grave. who will twist the knife next!?

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

my money's on Barney

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Gordo is not the most right-wing Republican out there, as you might guess from his Oregonianism. He's especially noted for being strong on gay rights (although he's not so good with the marriage thing) (but considering he's a Mormon...).

― Casuistry (casuistry), Friday, 29 December 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link

mormons with salt,and leavening.I think regrets eat people alive even if they have no romantic organs left inside them.If repubiclanz are not moved by body parts,then whats th harm in the war anyways.

― daniel seward (bunnybrain), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude apparently had quite a hand in getting Trent Lott restored to repub leadership(over Lamar Alexander).

If anybody has TNR membership(hey blount, you out there?), there's an extensive bit about it in the latest ish.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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