Face facts: It was a GOOD day (so take that..)

[moggie12]

1) Both CNN and MSNBC covered the entire seven-hour Rice hearing live (I'd assumed it was only going to be on C-Span....).

2) Barbara Boxer kicked butt.

3) Senators Obama, Kerry, Sarbanes & Dodd were like rat terriers at several points, zeroing in and doing real damage.

4) Several Republican Senators asked some pointed questions or followed-up on Dem Senator's questions. Lugar and Chafee, I thought, were particularly good.

5) Chris Matthews spent most of the day pointing out Condi's evasive answers. On the main Hardball show, he ripped into Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison when she tried to link Saddam to 9/11. Since Tweety is nothing if not a slave to current opinion, this is a good sign. (I don't know if you've ever noticed, but his right pointer finger is a prosthetic -- the original skin was ripped off, the result of sticking it up in the air all the time to see which way the wind was blowing).

6) Fox News is pretending there was no hearing (i.e., "bad news is no news"). Sean Hannity spent ten minutes venting about Boxer, but he looked like he'd just swallowed a bowl full of slop and he was even nastier than usual -- this usually means he's knows he's playing a bad hand. (Smug, smarmy look on Sean's face=good day for GOP, angry, red-faced look=bad day for GOP. The emotional state of morons is pretty easy to read.)


Please don't write me back with negative stuff. I don't care about any bad things that happened today (please DO NOT, for example, mention the name of a Senator from Delaware in any reply you may send me). I also don't care what will happen tomorrow. I am just going to enjoy the rest of tonight.

However, if you can think of anything else positive that happened today, please do drop me a line.

[Goldeneye]

1. And we got to sign a petition

telling Bush to fire Rummy. I'd say it was a damn good day.

[Dehumanizer]

2. This is probably the first 'good day' Dems have had since..

the night of the first debate.

btw for you cynicists, I'm talking Bush-Kerry, not Kennedy-Nixon. :)

[ailsagirl]

3. Yes-- it felt damn good, didn't it???

[Skink]

6. I think Condi got her feeling hurt.

I didn't know she had feelings.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Rice got called on that inane

comment about the tsaunami(sp)! That was a nice little bonus!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

5. The Senator from Delaware that was first elected in 1972......

name is....ok, nevermind that!

YES, IT WAS A GREAT DAY!!! Millions of Americans got to see Condesleeza taken to task on national T.V!!!

:kick:

[seabeyond]

7. feingold was good too

and there are more people on the board now not putting up with the yuk of all day. that is good for me

i too see it as a good day. a really really good day. i see the dems have shown bushco who they are going to be the next four years, and this is not going to make it easy for bush like after 9/11 and telling all us for a couple years to shut up

it will only go up from here as bush continues to fuck up and the dem congress can point it out each and every time

also., bush took off gay marriage issue., if i were gays i would play bush hand and across the nation challenge for marriage. make him address it. they want to use it again the next election. lets get this done and over with

[Renew Deal]

8. I had a similar take on it earlier.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1505043&mesg_id=1505043&page=