Reid just said they are staying all night till the Stimulus is done

[LSK]

CSPAN2

[Muttocracy]

1. good - no running home for the weekend until it's done. nt

[villager]

2. *That's* how you handle a fuckin' filibuster threat!

n/t

[Coexist]

6. indeed!

[Bolo Boffin]

3. And the Republicans man their forks. n/t

[BootinUp]

4. They must get it done. Glad Reid is cracking the whip. nt

[spanone]

5. all night is probably around 9:30 pm for harry

i say make the pukes fillibuster

[LSK]

7. they actually had an all-nighter last year or the year before

[ColbertWatcher]

8. Was that when they brought in the cots!? n/t

[LSK]

10. I'm not sure about cots, it was an Iraq spending bill with timetables

[spanone]

12. i was just kidding, i hope they stay till it's done...i do remember the cots

here's the link,,,,http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/washington/17cong.html

[Ian David]

14. "All Night" means he misses the early bird buffet. n/t

[XemaSab]

9. He's not one to hit it and quit it

;)

[LSK]

11. no sex threads

Oh wait, this isnt the lounge!

:D

[marketcrazy1]

15. where have I heard this before!!!

Reid says,

"The reason we must work through the night is that I can't imagine what would happen to the financial markets tomorrow if this bill were to fail."

[Ian David]

13. It's not like he's gonna get any action at home anyway. n/t

[BootinUp]

16. lol nt

[Berry Cool]

24. Well, if he were, it would be Lysistrata time.

In fact, that's what they should have anyway in the whole Senate. Each spouse/SO of each senator who has one should say "No stimulus for the economy by tomorrow, no stimulus for YOU either."

[Winterblues]

17. Reid has a strong record of saying one thing and then doing another.

I won't hold my breath on anything Reid says will happen.

[FriendlyReminder]

20. I have no faith in Harry Reid.

[dgibby]

25. Have you ever seen Arlen Spector and Harry Reid together?

I'm thinking maybe they're really the same person.

[depakid]

30. That has been his pattern

Is it any wonder that the man lacks credibility?

[BlueManDude]

18. that means they'll be home by 8 pm.

[MzNov]

19. or until the "centrists" gut the entire bill to suit the repukes nt

[Life Long Dem]

21. They want to finish for that Michelob weekend!

[bigwillq]

22. Good.

That's how it works in the real world. You don't go home until the work is done.

[mopinko]

23. sounds like some good teevee

think i will turn it on.

:hi: how ya doin'?

[chill_wind]

26. Why not? It was a classic, constant tactic of the GOPhers

to try to grind everyone down to exhaustion until the middle of the night, hoping the adversaries would just cave or leave. I'd wager they passed about 90% of their biggest, most foul pieces of legislation in the absolute wee hours just before dawn, when the C-Span cameras were long gone. I always think of Sherrod Brown's speech: "You can do a lot in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness. ".

The GOPher's don't remember? Time for a little Dem justice.

Under the Cover of Darkness



By U.S. Congressman Sherrod Brown - (D-Ohio), ranking member of Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. (Originally published Dec. 11, 2003 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)



Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:

At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes.

At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes.

At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the Leave No Millionaire Behind tax-cut bill by a handful of votes.

At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization and prescription drug bill by one vote.

At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in July, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote.

And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday in October, the House voted $87 billion for Iraq.

Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.

What did the public see? At best, Americans read a small story with a brief explanation of the bill and the vote count in Saturday's papers.

But what did the public miss? They didn't see the House votes, which normally take no more than 20 minutes, dragging on for as long as an hour as members of the Republican leadership trolled for enough votes to cobble together a majority.

They didn't see GOP leaders stalking the floor for whoever was not in line. They didn't see Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay coerce enough Republican members into switching their votes to produce the desired result.

In other words, they didn't see the subversion of democracy.

And late last month, they did it again. The most sweeping changes to Medicare in its 38-year history were forced through the House at 5:55 on a Saturday morning.

The debate started at midnight. The roll call began at 3:00 a.m. Most of us voted within the typical 20 minutes. Normally, the speaker would have gaveled the vote closed. But not this time; the Republican-driven bill was losing.

By 4 a.m., the bill had been defeated 216-218, with only one member, Democrat David Wu, not voting. Still, the speaker refused to gavel the vote closed.

Then the assault began.

Hastert, DeLay, Republican Whip Roy Blount, Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas, Energy and Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin—all searched the floor for stray Republicans to bully.

I watched them surround Cincinnati's Steve Chabot, trying first a carrot, then a stick; but he remained defiant. Next, they aimed at retiring Michigan congressman Nick Smith, whose son is running to succeed him. They promised support if he changed his vote to yes and threatened his son's future if he refused. He stood his ground.

Many of the two dozen Republicans who voted against the bill had fled the floor. One Republican hid in the Democratic cloakroom.

By 4:30, the browbeating had moved into the Republican cloakroom, out of sight of C-SPAN cameras and the insomniac public. Republican leaders woke President George W. Bush, and a White House aide passed a cell phone from one recalcitrant member to another in the cloakroom.

At 5:55, two hours and 55 minutes after the roll call had begun—twice as long as any previous vote in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives—two obscure western Republicans emerged from the cloakroom. They walked, ashen and cowed, down the aisle to the front of the chamber, scrawled their names and district numbers on green cards to change their votes and surrendered the cards to the clerk.

The speaker gaveled the vote closed; Medicare privatization had passed.

You can do a lot in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness.



http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Politics/3-12-19AfterDark.htm

[crickets]

27. ...aaaand Rachel just reported that Reid has called it a night.

They'll try again tomorrow. :looks at clock: 9pm. Wow, what a late night. :eyes:

[spanone]

28. harry wilts again

[Bluebear]

34. :nodding:

[LSK]

29. yeah I saw that, way to go Harry

You sure showed them.

:(

[Political Heretic]

33. LOL he is such a complete wuss.

[bdamomma]

31. no one more day, there are too many amendments on both sides

but our fight is not over, we need to call these Senators tomorrow and wait for those unemployment stats come out, it's 7.2 what will it be for January, unfortnately it won't be good. All the more reason why they have to vote for this Job and Economic Program through.

[Bluebear]

32. Sweet dreams, Reid! Thanks for burning the ....uh....9pm oil....