Feingold:what part of "show me the proxies" does the chair not understand?

[Cocoa]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/06/gonzales-under-oath/#comments

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FEINGOLD: Mr. Chairman, I request to see the proxies given by the Republican senators.

SPECTER: Could you repeat that Sen. Feingold?

FEINGOLD: I request to see the proxies given by the Republican senators.

SPECTER: The practice is to rely upon the staffers. But without counting that vote – Well, we can rephrase the question if there’s any serious challenge of the proxies. This is really not a very good way to begin this hearing.

http://streaming.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/2006/oath.320.240.mov.html

[Sydnie]

1. Specter was not a good poker player today

and Feingold CLEANED HIS CLOCK! :rofl:

[Wordie]

2. I missed that. Which vote was it that Feingold asked for the proxies on?nt

[Cocoa]

3. on swearing in Gonzales

:mad:

[UL_Approved]

4. This was a total sham

The GOP senior tool coalition thought that they could sweep this under the rug with that move, but the Democratic senators still raised hell. This line of questioning led to some interesting results, including the notion that Bush can go outside of the Legislative branch in making law and that other operations such as spying could be in progress. It would be interesting to see what would have come out of the proceedings if Gonzales was under oath.