Senate Dems could learn something from the West Wing ep "Shutdown"

[Hippo_Tron]

If Frist chooses to use the nuclear option and the Democrats bring the Senate to a standstill, we can do exactly what Bartlett did to Haffley. All 44 Senate Dems and Jeffords should march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House and tell the President that it's time to work out a solution where the rights of the minority are respected in the judicial process. If Bush negotiates then we can send Reid in to go one-on-one with him. If he refuses to negotiate (and I believe that he will), then it will be his fault that that his agenda is not going to pass the Senate.

[mcd1982]

1. excellent!

it'd make a powerful image if 45 senators where marching to the white house!

[EVDebs]

2. Personally a shutdown of the govt with this neocon Reichstag

in power would be a breath of fresh air. They would have NO budget for the war either...Think about that...they'd HAVE TO bring troops home without a budget authorizing them to be there.

This would be much like the end of VietNam without funding for Ambassador Graham A. Martin, who lost his adopted son Glenn Dill Mann in Vietnam in Nov 1965 when Martin was Ambassador to Thailand next door.

www.flyarmy.org/K11260.HTM

Name: 1LT Glenn Dill Mann
Status: Killed In Action from an incident on 11/23/1965 while performing the duty of Co-pilot.
Age at death: 25.7
Date of Birth: 03/17/1940
Home City: Williamsburg, VA
Service: regular component of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Unit: VMO-6
Service: U.S. Marine Corps.
The Wall location: 03E-111
Aircraft: UH-1E
Service number: 084300
Country: South Vietnam
MOS: 7335 = Pilot HMH
Primary cause: Hostile Fire

The books all keep it a secret about the real name of the adopted son -- Frank Snepp's book 'Decent Interval' uses the wrong name-- and David Butler's 'Fall of Saigon' used just the first name Glenn.

Martin went on to become a rabid war hawk and no doubt kept those war drums beating from 1965 onward. His knowledge of the drug trafficking from Thailand (appointed by JFK Nov 1, 1963) to his other ambassadorship in Italy (appointed by Nixon from 1969) and So. Vietnam (1973-75) goes a long way to becoming informed as to why a book like Alfred McCoy's excellent Politics of Heroin could be written and be soooooo acurate.

[sundancekid]

3. me likey so much, me passed on idea to my one Dem senator ...

maybe we should all pass on to our respective Dem senators ...
:thumbsup:

[mcd1982]

4. too bad...

I don't have a Dem senator to send it too...damn Texas voters...

[EVDebs]

5. It ain't gotta be YOUR TX rep or sen you know. Pick one and send !

[Hippo_Tron]

6. I'll call or e-mail Landrieu tommorow

Also might try my favorites Durbin and Feingold, as well as Reid.