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DEL.ICIO.USWho did you share your pillow with? The Senate goes to the mattresses
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You gotta read this file from Bob Kemper, our guy in Washington:
It’s the last question the official spokesperson for a United States Senator wants to hear from a reporter.
Senate flak: “Hello?”
Reporter: “Hey, I need to know where your boss slept last night.”
Senate flack: (Only the “thump” of the fainting flak hitting the floor is heard.)
This was not a David Vitter matter.
On Wednesday, after the Senate pulled an all-nighter to debate the Iraq war, a couple of spokeswomen for Georgia’s two Republican senators — Joan Kirchner from Johnny Isakson’s office and Lindsay Mabry from the office of Saxby Chambliss — not only kept their cool, but Kirchner offered up her boss to address the question directly.
“I slept in my own bed, but I didn’t do much of it,” said Isakson, who also caught a brief catnap when he dozed off in a chair just off the Senate floor while waiting his turn to speak about the war.
Chambliss, too, was able to sneak home to his apartment on the House side of Capitol Hill for a few winks, though he was up early enough to appear on CNN and offer his take on how the long night went: total waste of time.
Noting that the bill being debated including increased spending for U.S. troops in Iraq, Chambliss told CNN, “All of that has been lost and delayed by the Democrats with this procedure, as they have called [the] stunt that took place last night.”
With all 100 senators forced to be in or near the chamber through the entire night, cots were set up on the Senate floor and herds of pizza deliverymen raced around the Capitol. The World’s Most Deliberative Body, as the Senate calls itself, looked more like a frat house getting ready to party.
According to the Senate Historian’s Office, there have been only 30 all-nighters in the chamber since 1915. None of them were about an on-going war.
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By flip wilson
July 19, 2007 10:54 AM | Link to this
nice that chambliss could go on TV and talk about what a waste of time it was to debate the war, even though he ‘managed to sneak home to his apartment for a few winks’ … kind of like when he dodged the draft during vietnam, then slandered a guy who lost three limbs over there. what a coward and hypocrite.
By Kenneth Noisewater
July 19, 2007 11:36 AM | Link to this
Are you donkeys really still bitter about Saxby’s wolloping of Cleland in 2002? Get over it!!
Max had a voting record that was out of touch with Georgia and more in line with the unions and northeastern liberals.
I’ll give $100 to anyone that can find an instance of Chambliss, or anyone else associated with him, denigrating Max Cleland’s military service. Good luck, because that campaign focused on nothing but Max Cleland’s absurd voting record.
By Taylor
July 19, 2007 12:21 PM | Link to this
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14474-2002Jun19.html
Give me your home or work address. I’d be happy to come collect.
By flip wilson
July 19, 2007 2:16 PM | Link to this
Looks like Mr. Noisewater is going to chicken out of the bet, just like Chambliss chickened out during Vietnam.