Geezus....Zell Miller is on CSpan now

[La_Serpiente]

Get off the stage!!!! :grr:

[schrodinger_I]

1. He is a kook!

I can't stand the guy. I bet Georgians probably cringe whenever he speaks..... He is such an idiot!

[Robin Hood]

2. He is on our side?!!!

With friends like that we don't need any enemies. Why doesn't he just switch parties already.

[elperromagico]

5. It's a pity we can't drum him out of the party

If he's a Democrat, I'm Queen Victoria.

[William Seger]

9. "Why doesn't he just switch parties already."

Because he gets a LOT more attention being a Bush-loving Democrat, and apparently that's the one and only thing he cares about. Screw the people dying in the Middle East, screw the suffering unemployed, screw the environment, screw our children's future; Zell is getting his ugly face on TV all the time. In other words, he's a typical "conservative" fuckwad.

[kodi]

3. an intellectual charlatan, a moral and ethical fraud

note that he has avoided the issue of the nominees judical philosophies and instead calls for "fairness."

where is the fairness of 3,000,000 unemployed, where is the justice of 41 million without health insurance, and 18 million children living in poverty?

typical creep.

[Dr Fate]

4. I'd just assume have a straight-up Republican in his place...

...then again, I guess that would not be any different than now...

Does he EVER side with the party and DEM voters who got him elected???

[Tatiana]

6. No, he doesn't.

He has a 100% Republican voting record.

[DemBones DemBones]

13. A Republican from Georgia talking all the nonsense that Zell does

would probably get little attention. So maybe we'd be better off with a Repuub.

We Georgians who voted for him thought he'd be okay as a senator -- he had been our governor, after all. And then-governor Roy Barnes (D) appointed him to replace Paul Coverdell (R) who died suddenly. Zell didn't give us a clue he'd gone batshit crazy until after the election, which wasn't long after his appointment. I think 9/11 really scrambled his brains but he always liked Dubya because he "understands the infield fly rule."

So far, only Repubs are talking about running for Zell's seat. Not very encouraging. I don't blame Max for not running, after the way he was treated.

[Duncan Grant]

7. Did you notice how ol' Zell positioned his arguement on...

how these judicial nominees are rugged individualists? They're just plain folks who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps against all odds...yada, yada, yada. Typical anti-progressive rhetoric.

And then, to top it all off...he positions the Democratic party as anti-south. Notice how he harped on each nominees regional roots? Gawd, what a cheap appeal to people's emotions.

Zell needs to move on over across the aisle and kiss Saxby's ass. Leave our party Zell! Your book was the last offense. :grr:

As for me, I'll take my Senator (Barbara Boxer) anyday over that phoney Democrat.

[Classical_Liberal]

15. He wants to revive the dixiecrats

That is racist code! Has been since reconstruction.

[Paragon]

8. Silver lining

He's retiring in 04 - not running again. Now Georgians can elect a true Republican to the Senate. :silly:

[kodi]

10. just sent him a telegram

"I have watched you this morning on the floor of the Senate. You are a disgraceful intellectual charlatan, devoid of any moral or ethical integrity. You knowingly and repeatedly lied about the US Constitution, which I have sworn to defend. You lied about the details of the judicial nominee deliberations. Have you no shame? People in this country are hurting and all you can do is stand there and lie. What the hell is wrong with you? You have a duty to this country and do not serve its best interests. In fact, you are willfully participating in its ruin."

[paulsbc]

11. what was his lie?

didn't catch the speech, what did he say?

[kodi]

12. that the constitution required full up or down votes on judicial nominees

it was a way to demand that the 4 nominees be voted upon and bypass the filibuster process, and he said that such filibusters had never been used before.

that was the lie, filibusters had been used scores of times, the repukes attempted to make the claim but never mentioned that filibusters had been attempted, especially against clinon's nominees (55 of clinton's nominees never even had a vote but only 4 bush nominees) the only difference was that the dems had been successful in the last few months.

168 nominations of 172 passed, 98%,

under clinton, 80% passed. that's the gross hypocrisy

daschle came on immediately afterward and corrected him.

[joanski01]

14. If I heard correctly, when this

marathon began and Frist was speaking at 6:00 p.m. yesterday, Frist said that he and Zell Miller are introducing a bill to stop the cloture votes and just have up or down votes. Now Frist can say that it is a bipartisan bill. These guys and such liars and crooks.

I want to know who REALLY put these incompetent criminals in charge of our country?