Mary Landrau is kicking butt on CSPAN!!! You go girl!

[keopeli]

Edit: removed profanity...sorry

[ibegurpard]

1. No I will NOT yield.

GO MARY!
:toast:

[Jacobin]

32. I'm getting her a coffee mug with " I WILL NOT YIELD" on it

and send it to her as a thank you gift.

:bounce:


Beautiful performance. Passion and disgust at the traitorous tactics of repukes.

[bicentennial_baby]

2. For real!

Hot damn, she's good!

[kdmorris]

3. MAN, she is just GREAT to watch!!!

I'm so happy she's on our side!!

[newyawker99]

48. Hi kdmorris!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. MY NEW HERO!!!!!!

Boy, is she giving it to them. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!

[msmcghee]

5. Here's the link

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

Click on C-SPAN 2

[msmcghee]

9. Mary Landreau for president n/t

[Field Of Dreams]

6. I love when she smacks down Orin Hatch

...and won't let him interrupt her.

[alexwcovington]

7. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

[Mattforclark]

8. BOOMSHAKALLAKA

[Democrats unite]

10. I love this woman...

And I am Gay!!!

[maddezmom]

11. she is wonderful....

LA should be very proud to have her.

[kiahzero]

12. That was amazing! (n/t)

[wheresthemind]

17. I say she is the VP Choice no matter the nominnee!

gogogogogogogoogogo

Man she is great!

[MoonRiver]

22. Great idea!

It never dawned on me, although I've always really liked her. :thumbsup:

[TheDonkey]

13. She is amazing!?!?!

I was speechless when she started flipping out on rethuglicans in that chamber!

Damn, she rocks.

[gardenista]

14. Damn, Senator Girlfriend!

She is kicking ass! I love her!

[MissB]

15. It is great to see her on fire!

I haven't been able to catch much of the "filibuster".


she's good.

[Generic Other]

16. This woman has declared war on Bush and the GOP

Bless her!!

[SteveG]

31. No, they declared war on her

in the last election, befor that she was as likely to side with the pukes as not, but they went after her tooth and nail, and she beat them anyway. She owes them nothing, and she knows it.

[Jacobin]

34. You're right. She figure it out.

Cheney, Bush* and the whole cabal came to Louisiana trying to unseat her. They spent gazillions trying to get HorseFace Terrell elected and Landrieu won.

Landrieu KNOWS that kissing Smirky's ass is a one way ticket to hell.

[funkyflathead]

18. Landrieu rocks n/t

[MsLeopard]

19. Telling it like it is!

She's ripping the Rethugs a new one! Go girl!

[gardenista]

20. "How much more time do I have?" she purrs...

honey, you got as much time as you want!

I am so proud of the women dems in the Senate!

[dean4america]

21. Imagine her as Dean's VP...

My god, Mary is kicking some serious ass tonight -- she is impressing the hell out of me tonight. I'm sure everyone from Louisiana who voted for her is feeling proud right now.

We need to get "I WILL NOT YIELD!" on t-shirts ASAP --

(not to be sexist, but it figures that one of the only Democratic Senator with a brass pair is a woman).

Take THAT zell miller


EDIT: typo

[Rose Siding]

28. She looks like a VP tonight

And she meets all 4 criteria: Location, demographics, understands the working of govt, leadership

She's on MY short list!

[Lefta Dissenter]

23. I gave up the rest of E.R to watch her!

and that's a huge sacrifice! I wish I had seen the first part of her speech - I switched over during an ad and couldn't go back to E.R.!

:yourock:

[Maddy McCall]

25. Here is the replay.

Orin Hatch interrupted her: "Will you yield?" Landrieu: "I will not yield!" Hatch: "Will you yield?" Landrieu: "I will NOT yield!" Hatch" "Will you yield?" Landrieu: "I WILL NOT YIELD!!" Hatch: "I object!" Pres. of the Senate: "The senator from Louisiana has the floor."

Landrieu: "How much time do I have left?" Response: "22 minutes" Landrieu: "Good--and I am going to use EVERY one of them!"

She is nailing Republicans on wedge issues: racism, sexism.

[Tatiana]

26. There was also some laughter and encouragement in the chamber. N/T

[Jacobin]

24. Tonight, I'm proud to live in Louisiana

You go, Girl!!!

Kicking ass and taking names!!!!


:bounce:


:bounce:


Kicking King George's ASS from one end of the country to the other!!!

[0007]

30. This was a classic and I'm glad I witnessed Mary's performance.

[madrchsod]

27. i like her

she`s cool...and she kicks ass

[girl gone mad]

38. Not to mention: she's hot.

Okay, I'll be the one to say it - can't accuse me of sexism. I remember seeing some video footage of her during her senate race and thinking "the Dems are going to win that seat."

All that and looks, too. She made Orrin Hatch look like even more of a bumbling idiot than usual.

[robsul82]

46. Hehehe...

...it is so, it is so. ;)

Later.

RJS

[Catherine Vincent]

29. Damn I hate I missed it!

Crap!

[burr]

33. what???

I don't know what she is saying, but I can post this..

Never use sweettalk nor accept it..when deciding your relationship with anyone OTHER than a lover! And even that has risks..

Landrieu is not pro-choice, Landrieu voted for all of shrub's taxcuts, she supported the PA, and she voted for the IWR.

Landrieu can be supported in the runoff against repukes, but what about in a non-partisan primary? She has failed to protect our liberity, she has failed to protect our security, and now she has failed to protect our future. so please tell me...why vote for her? :shrug:

[Jacobin]

37. Get your facts straight dude. She IS pro-choice

She ran her last election against an antichoice candidate last fall and she defended her position well and won.

Yep. She voted for IWR just like John Fucking Kerry did.

I hate that she did that.

But please don't pour water on the beautiful performance she just gave. It was music to my ears and many others.

[MO_Dem]

41. What is liberity?

I don't think I've ever had any of that.

[burr]

49. I meant she opposes "less slavery", or "more wipping on both jobs!!!"

my apologies!!! :spank:

[robsul82]

35. Well, I'm proud to go to Loyola New Orleans tonight!

YES! Sooooooooooo glad she escaped that colossal hosebeast Terrell last year.

Later.

RJS

[mndemocrat_29]

36. She is definitely on my shortlist for VP

Anyone who can take down Orrin Hatch has my vote.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[never cry wolf]

39. The dabate thread had her email address

and suggested we write to thank her, good idea, she was AWESOME!! (and hot)

http://landrieu.senate.gov/newsite/webform.html

[Robbien]

40. Yes, I just sent her a support email

So glad she is on our side.

[HootieMcBoob]

42. She said "President Gore" got more votes!

That did it for me. She absolutely rocked! She read the number of popular votes that Bush got and then she read the number of votes for "President Gore". She actually said "President Gore"! I emailed her right away. She kicked republican ass! :toast:

[Hailtothechimp]

43. She did it. She handed them their a$$es.

It was great to watch. Refusing to give old Orin Hatch an extra 30 seconds ticked him off, which I appreciated. And then she just let loose. I'm surprised some of the charts she was using didn't catch fire. Her catch phrase was "no matter how hard you try, we will not be divided." Good for her.

[Wednesdays]

44. That must have been some speech!

I didn't see her performance, but I tuned in when Hatch was up, and he just stumbled and mumbled his way thru his presentation. He literally looked horse-whipped!

[Neecy]

45. a classic performance

The best presentation of this whole ridiculous telethon...Hatch finally went over the line and pissed off the wrong Senator.

She just ripped him open. It's so great to finally see a Democrat go apeshit and score major points.

A great VP choice!!!!

[ronzo]

47. I missed it.

Good to see some love for Mary. Lookout for our new Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu (little brother)...

[NewJeffCT]

50. Can we get a transcript or summary?

I can't watch video here at work...and don't have access to CSPAN.

Thanks

[Tinoire]

51. All this praise for the DLC's no 1 poster girl Bush's Tax cut? No no no

It's unfortunate people missed the passionate speech she gave supporting welfare reform. I wonder how admirable people would have found that. Of course Louisiana is also heavy oil industry, hence the overwhelming support for Dubya's administration (and Halliburton cronies and lack of environmental controls on polluting industries).

Landrieu is one of those cowardly appeasniks who has done more to set the Democratic party back than any Republican.

Gotta love these people:

But even more surprising than Mr. Daschle's switch on the pending gun bill were the 17 Senate Democrats — six of whom are running for re-election — who voted for the partial-birth-abortion ban that has been the No. 1 priority of the pro-life activist community.
Mr. Daschle voted for that, too. He said that he had "a lot of misgivings about this bill," but added that after eight years of debate, "it was time to move on."
Joining him were Democratic Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, John B. Breaux and Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, Kent Conrad and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Zell Miller of Georgia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Harry Reid of Nevada.
The desertion of so many Democrats on an issue so important to the feminist movement — a core part of the party's base — shocked pro-choice activists. The Democrats "got nervous," said Kate Michelman who heads NARAL Pro-Choice America.
Getting religion was another issue discussed at the DLC strategy forum.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031029-105103-3000r.htm
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Despite the self-serving claims of the DLC website, the DLC will never be able to credibly oppose the President. How could they? On too much of the Bush agenda, they can't attack Bush without attacking their own voting records.

NOTES: The thirteen DLC Senators who voted for Bush's tax cuts were Evan Bayh, John Breaux, Jean Carnahan, Tom Carper, Max Cleland, John Edwards, Dianne Feinstein, Tim Johnson, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Zell Miller, Ben Nelson. The only non-DLC Democrats to vote for it were Senators Baucaus and Torricelli, both DLC allies. The vote was, to be sure, part of the overall budget - but as reading the newspapers for April of 2001 will confirm, the controversy - and the reason that the other 35 Democrats voted against the bill - was over Bush's tax cuts.

The thirteen DLC Senators who voted against fuel efficiency were Evan Bayh, John Breaux, Tom Carper, Max Cleland, Kent Conrad, Tim Johnson, Herb Kohl, Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln, Zell Miller, Ben Nelson and Debbie Stabenow.

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/2002_11_03_archive.html

Let's Hold Democrats Accountable for Supporting Bush's Tax Giveaway

28-May-01

Congressional Democrats

On May 23, all 50 Republican Senators voted for the $5.5 TRILLION tax giveaway to the rich, enough to guarantee its passage (with Cheney's help). But so did 12 Democrats - Blanche Lincoln (AR), Dianne Feinstein (CA), Max Cleland (GA), Zell Miller (GA), John Breaux (LA), Mary Landrieu (LA), Jean Carnahan (MO), Max Baucus (MT), Ben Nelson (NE), Robert Torricelli (NJ), Tim Johnson (SD), and Herbert Kohl (WI). This was the most horrendous vote in 20 years, and these Democrats need to be held accountable BY THEIR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUENTS. If you are from one of these states, we urge you to join your statewide chapter of Democrats.com and coordinate a letter-writing campaign to your Senator, and plan an open and widely-publicized meeting for Democrats on his or her next visit back to your state. Who do these Democrats think elected them???

http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Congressional%20Democrats

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God, Guns, and Guts: Seizing The Cultural Center
The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and Americans for Gun Safety (AGS) co-hosted a working conference October 17-19, 2003, in Atlanta, on how Democrats can recapture the center in American politics on crucial issues such as firearms, faith, and family policy while promoting progressive principles.

All about God, Guns, and Guts with PowerPoint Presentations and all. Faith-based initiatives? Hmmm- who does that sound like?

No thank you... The DLC can keep people like Lieberman, Landrieu and Bayh.

Words are cheap and easy. Where was the action???????