Al Gore testifying now. Awesome!

[beachmom]

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan3_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

[beachmom]

1. Liveblogging here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/21/93925/9818

[karynnj]

2. Thanks - it's interesting

[ProSense]

26. Video of the House session.

Link posted at the JK blog

[beachmom]

3. Republican ranking member is an idiot. Gore has taken a lesson

from Kerry and is writing stuff down and has maintained a poker face. I await Gore's respectful but thorough smackdown of this yahoo.

[beachmom]

4. Gore: "Members of the Committe should be under "no illusion"

of the scientific consensus. The debate on it is over. Acknowledge it and accept it."

[beachmom]

6. Love Gore:

If your baby has a fever you take them to the doctor and take action. You don't say "well, there's a science fiction novel that says the baby doesn't have a fever. There is another theory that the baby is flame retardent".

LOL.

[karynnj]

5. a smirky idiot

He is now claiming his time is up - and he wants an answer on CAFE only

Funny - said if your baby has a fever, you take him to the doctor. You don't talk about a science fiction novel or say the bady is flame redardant.

[beachmom]

7. Look at the way he waved his hand at Gore in disgust.

He accused Gore of so much BS, how can Gore possibly have enough time to refute the dense amount of manure coming from that Texan's mouth in 5 minutes.

[europegirl4jfk]

8. Gore's an adviser to the UK government - that's so cool!

I love it how he talks about international scientists and that the whole world knows about global warming. Implied message to the Bush admin and these idiotic Republicans: you are stupid, the rest of the world is not! LOL

[ginnyinWI]

9. I'm so glad Gore is on "our" side, aren't you? n/t

[beachmom]

10. Hastert up now. Good God I forgot he was still in the Congress

He believes in global warming. Interesting. He calls Al Gore a "movie star". Al Gore laughs.

Thinks it's a choice between free markets and taxes.

So far he isn't totally annoying me. The Texan was worse.

Mad about Yacca Mountain (which senator is filibustering it?)

Complaining about China and their coal plants.

Talking about being energy dependent on "sheikhs and dictators" to get oil.

Talking about legislation to solve these problems, as well as jobs going away.

Actually, not bad.

[ginnyinWI]

11. does anyone have a link to his website?

He mentioned something about signing up for something...I hadn't heard of this before...?

[beachmom]

12. Here:

http://www.algore.com/index-splash.html

I wish I had signed up before he testified but I'm going to do it now.

[ginnyinWI]

13. thanks--going there now. n/t

[beachmom]

14. Now he's in front of the Senate. I just got home and missed

Inhofe, which would have been interesting. Anyway, same channel.

[fedupinBushcountry]

16. Anyone have Inhofe's number

He is totally disgusting.

[beachmom]

15. Inhofe is a big giant a**hole. Boxer is holding up the gavel

saying "elections mean something". He asks questions then won't let Gore answer.

[fedupinBushcountry]

17. What a total

weasel bastid. I cannot believe what a jerk he is being.

[karynnj]

22. I can see why his name usually comes up for worst Senator

I really don't want to think of what it was like when he was in charge.

[TayTay]

27. Ladies and Gentlemen: The comic stylings of James Inhofe

Talking about an amendment that would allow The Ed Schultz Show and (2005) The Al Franken Show on Armed Forces radio:

Liberal radio

The other day I was in the elevator coming up to the floor to cast a vote. I was with two of our Democratic colleagues whom I respect very much, two very liberal Democratic Senators. They were complaining about the fact that all the talk shows are conservative and they don't have successful liberal talk shows. And they said--these were their words in the elevator--there ought to be a legislative fix to this. I said: What you guys don't understand is, this is market driven, and there is no market for your liberal trite. And for that reason, it is much more of the conservative talk shows. It is called the market, and that is what makes America work.

Nov 8, 2005

What are you on my case for, trite is the fair and balanced word, right? I'm not prejudging you, it's just that anti-American, liberal radio ranting is wrong and no one wants it. What? Was it something I said?

On Global Warming

Many times that is not the case, and such a case is the hoax referred to as ``global warming .'' I called the threat of catastrophic global warming the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people in a statement, to put it mildly, that was not viewed very kindly by the environmental extremists and their elitist organizations.

I also pointed out in a lengthy committee report that those same environmental extremists exploit the issue for fundraising purposes, raking in millions of dollars, even using Federal taxpayers' dollars to finance the campaigns.

For these groups, the issue of catastrophic global warming is not just a favored fundraising tool. In truth, it is more fundamental than that. Put simply, man-induced global warming is an article of religious faith to the radical far left alarmists. Therefore, contending that its central tenets are flawed to them is heresy and of the most despicable kind. Furthermore, scientists who challenge its tenets are attacked sometimes personally for blindly ignoring the so-called scientific consensus. That is not all. Because of their skeptical views, they are contemptuous, dismissed for being ``out of the mainstream.''

This seems to me highly ironic. Aren't scientists to be nonconforming and question consensus? Nevertheless, it is not hard to read between the lines. ``Skeptic'' and ``out of mainstream'' are their thinly veiled code phrases meaning anyone who doubts the alarmists' orthodoxy is, in short, a quack.

James Inhofe, Jan 4, 2005

on Why Gays should not marry and what Sen. Inhofe is most proud of

Mr. INHOFE. Maybe this isn't worded exactly right. But this is the only show in town. It is the only opportunity that we will have to do anything. Again, I said maybe I am the wrong person to talk about this. I was talking to my brother, Buddy Inhofe, down in Texas. He is a Texas citizen, I say to my friend from Texas over here. He and his wife Margaret--he is 1 year older than I am--they have been married for 53 years. Every time they have a wedding anniversary, it is just like getting married again.

As you see--maybe this is the most important prop we will have during the entire debate--my wife and I have been married 47 years. We have 20 kids and grandkids. I am really proud to say in the recorded history of our family , we have never had a divorce or any kind of a homosexual relationship. I think maybe I am the wrong one to be doing this, as I come with such a strong prejudice for strong families.

June 7th, 2006

Do you know what this means? This makes Tom Coburn the sane Senator from Oklahoma

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/11/14503/642

Jesus. Tom Coburn, X-Treme GOoPer.

From Atrios:
Listen to the Republican candidate for senator from Oklahoma say this:

You know, Josh Burkeen is our rep down here in the southeast area. He lives in Colgate and travels out of Atoka. He was telling me lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?"

Tom Coburn, 8/31/04

Yeah, Coburn's the sane one. If that doesn't scare you, nothing will.

[Mass]

18. Kobluchar on - We are back to Vice President Gore.

I could not believe when Inhoffe was calling him Senator. He could not even have the courtesy to give him his title.

[beachmom]

19. Didn't Boxer, too? Kind of because they used to work with Gore

and they're used to calling him Senator? I'm not 100% sure.

But Inhofe was just awful, and attacked Gore just like the freepers who attacked Kerry on the Boston Globe commenting section.

[fedupinBushcountry]

20. I just called Inhofe's office

and told them that he owed Gore an apology and the American people. I said he was totaaly disgusting in his questioning.

202-224-4721

[Mass]

21. Babs was elected Senator in 1993, so she never in the senate with Gore.

Before that, while Gore was in the Senate, she was in the House.

Inhoffe is a total idiot. I had a laugh when he gave the name of the French scientist who changed his mind on global warming: a total idiot too (he refuses to support the candidate from his party because she is for reducing the use of nuclear energy and against genetically modified food) and a geochimist, not a climatologist. It seems that all the people Inhoffe quote on this issue are not climatologist at all.

[beachmom]

23. Warner has an open mind. We all know him to be a decent man,

and he is being decent today, in a veiled way putting down Inhofe.

Liveblogging here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/21/152953/531

[fedupinBushcountry]

24. Yes

I don't like his politics but he is a decent man.

[beachmom]

25. TPM has a video up of Gore's "the baby has a fever" smackdown

from the House hearing this morning:

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/mar/21/gore

[ProSense]

28. Thanks.

That's a great clip. Repubs can be jerks.

Gore's opening statement was awesome.

Check out Boxer vs. Inofe

[beachmom]

29. What a great day for Al. He was fabulous and convincing.

I hope Kerrycrats don't mind me setting up this thread today in the John Kerry Forum, but I don't think it's a stretch that those who love Kerry have a special place for Gore in their hearts, too.

[ProSense]

30. Check out post 26, and thanks for the thread Beachmom.

:)

[Island Blue]

31. I'm glad you did post it Beachmom - Thank you!

This was a great day for not only Al Gore, but for all Americans who care about the planet. I'm sure JK & THK have seen clips of the day's events (at the very least) and have been cheering along with the rest of us. Today I felt proud to be a Democrat!