{"id":404,"date":"2009-12-19T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2009-12-19T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T11:11:00","slug":"mcconjob-lied-for-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/19\/mcconjob-lied-for-lieberman\/","title":{"rendered":"McConJob Lied for LIEberman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday<\/a> I posted video of Franken shutting down Traitor Joe.  Immediately afterwards McConJob, vame to his defense.  Displaying the normal GOP aversion to honesty, McConJob lied his head off.<\/p>\n

\"McConJob_Busted\"<\/a> Yesterday, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), acting on the orders of the Senate leadership, refused to grant Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) \u201c<\/font>an additional moment<\/a>\u201d to continue speaking on the Senate floor after his 10 minutes expired. Franken\u2019s objection caused Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to groan about how Franken\u2019s move was unprofessional, unprecedented, and disrespectful:<\/font><\/p>\n

McCAIN: I\u2019ve been around here 20-some years. First time I\u2019ve ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks. \u2026 I just haven\u2019t seen it before myself.<\/span> And I don\u2019t like it. And I think it harms the comity of the Senate not to allow one of our members at least a minute. I\u2019m sure that time is urgent here, but I doubt that it would be that urgent.<\/font><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, McCain\u2019s memory is suffering. In fact, McCain has engaged in the very same behavior that he was criticizing Franken for yesterday.<\/font><\/p>\n

On October 10, 2002 \u2014 just ahead of the looming mid-term elections \u2014 the Senate rushed a debate on a war authorization giving President Bush the power to use force against Iraq. The resolution ultimately passed the Senate after midnight<\/font> on an early Friday morning by a vote of 77-23<\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n

During the course of the frenzied floor debate, then-Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN) spoke in favor of <\/font>an amendment offered by Sen. Robert Byrd<\/font><\/a> (D-WV) that would have restricted Bush\u2019s constitutional powers to wage war against Iraq. After a minute and a half, Dayton ran out of time,<\/font> prompting this exchange<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator\u2019s time has expired. <\/font><\/p>\n

Mr. DAYTON. I ask for unanimous consent that I have 30 seconds more to finish my remarks. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Mr. McCAIN. I object.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Byrd stepped in to grant Dayton time to finish his remarks. But just moments later, Byrd asked for more time to speak for himself. Again, McCain objected, prompting Byrd to chide him for doing so\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

The next time you want to complain about Obama, remember that this could have been elected.  Worse yet, he could have been elected and died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted video of Franken shutting down Traitor Joe.  Immediately afterwards McConJob, vame to his defense.  Displaying the normal GOP aversion to honesty, McConJob lied his head off. Yesterday, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), acting on the orders of the Senate leadership, refused to grant Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) \u201can additional moment\u201d to continue speaking […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}