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LIVE BLOGGING of Al Gore Policy Speech!!
[UPDATE] Sorry we haven't started yet. Just waiting for the phone call from our intrepid and top flight, on-the-scene blogporter, Karen. Hang in there. We are poised and ready to bring you all the bloggy goodness that Al Gore has to offer us!
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Beginning at shortly after noontime today, we will be LIVE BLOGGING the MOVE ON PAC event featuring Al Gore giving a major policy speech.
Here are the details:
Former Vice President Gore to Deliver Major Policy Speech; MoveOn PAC Media Advisory for Wednesday, April 27
WASHINGTON -- April 25 -- News Advisory:
Former Vice President Gore to Deliver Major Policy Speech: Republican Attempt to Force Judicial Nominations a "Poison Pill for American Democracy"
Speech Accompanied by MoveOn PAC Rallies in Over Forty States, TV Ad of Stampeding Elephants
WHAT: MoveOn PAC Media Advisory for Noon, Wednesday, April 27th
Former Vice President Al Gore, in his first major policy address since the election, will address MoveOn PAC members about Republican attempts to appoint radical judges to courts across the country. The speech, coming on what could be the eve of Majority Leader Bill Frist's attempt to break over 200 years of tradition and eliminate the filibuster of judicial nominations, will keynote a day of action that will include rallies in over forty states and release of a new television ad.
Gore will lay out the role of the filibuster and its important role in American democracy. Furthermore, he will explain how this latest move by the Republican party is an historic threat to the health and vitality of America and could perhaps be the beginning of the end of meaningful debate in the U.S. Senate.
WHO: Former Vice President Al Gore
MoveOn PAC
WHAT: Policy speech on judicial nominations
When: Wednesday, April 27 at noon
Where: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
400 New Jersey Avenue, NW (between D and E Streets on New Jersey Ave, NW), Washington D.C.
So tune in to the DCP for LIVE BLOGGING!!
From May 2 issue of Newsweek...
Conservatives in Washington will gather en masse at the Capital Hilton May 12 for a Salute to Tom DeLay Dinner, organized by the American Conservative Union. "It's for Tom, but it's also for conservatives, and for our self-respect," said the ACU's chairman David Keene. "We haven't come this far in the movement after all these years to abandon an important friend when he needs us."
While DeLay constructs an Alamo of his own devising, it's not entirely clear whether the president is happy to be in the fort with him. He may soon have additional reason to keep his distance from the whole DeLay crowd. McCain's Senate Indian Affairs Committee has subpoenaed the records of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform—an antitax group and favorite ally of Karl Rove's shop. Sources tell NEWSWEEK that Abramoff often steered clients' funds to ATR as a way to ease access to the administration. It seems to have worked. A lawyer for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian tribe in Michigan told NEWSWEEK that tribal leaders had "three or four" meetings at the White House—including one with Bush and another with Rove—after they gave a $25,000 donation to Norquist's group at Abramoff's request. ATR spokesman Chris Butler confirmed that Norquist arranged White House meetings for Indian tribal leaders and others who were "supportive of the president's agenda." But he said these were unrelated to any donations to the group.
For now at least, Rove remains on the barricades with the majority leader. "We strongly support Tom DeLay," he told CNN. "He's a good man, a close ally of this administration." Bush was slated to visit Galveston, Texas, this week to stump for his Social Security reform; DeLay was among the dignitaries invited to the event and to ride back to Washington on Air Force One. But no one was expecting Bush to administer a Tex-Mex abrazo. "He'll recognize him as he does any time there is a congressman at any event," said a White House aide. "Both are focused on getting the same things done," said another aide. "But there are obvious differences in leadership style." Staffers also questioned whether any of their number would be able to attend the DeLay testimonial—since most of them will just have gotten back from Bush's five-day trip to Europe. Travel can be exhausting—and not every dinner is a must.
(Entire article --> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7615248/site/newsweek/)
My post disappeared where I asked you Casey if there is a way to run the Walter Chronkite evening news clip in the 1960s reporting how Republicans killed the nomination of Abe Fortas to the US Supreme Court via the filibuster. Al Franken has run that clip repeatedly on Air America Casey, and it very effectively rebuts Frist' repeated lies that Republicans have never used the filibuster to kill a judicial nomination.
Ira,
You are on the wrong thread. Your post is on the newest thread at 10:28