But he did the holds to protect America.

Why doesn't he want to protect America anymore?

after getting some attention, hugs, Depends...

Sissy.

Weaver95: looks like his check cleared.

No. Someone shined a flashlight on cockroach, and he scuttled away.

Did he get the $35 million he was seeking for his district?

/didn't rtfa

"The purpose of placing numerous holds was to get the White House's attention on two issues that are critical to our national security - the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker acquisition and the FBI's Terrorist Device Analytical Center," Shelby spokesman Jonathan Graffeo said in a statement Monday night.

Both of which he just happens to want built in his state.

But the GOP is COMPLETELY against earmarks.

Weaver95: looks like his check cleared.

No, he didn't get what he wanted. He had his little hissy fit, but he knew (or more likely was told) that if he actually kept it up Democratic Senators might actually grow some balls and do something about the rampant abuse of holds. Can't have that.

GAT_00

I'm still waiting for people to defend Shelby. Someone will.


I'd probably take one of his Mustangs if price were no object.

FTA "Sen. Shelby is fully justified in his concern that the Obama administration is seeking to rescind funds already appropriated for this vital national security purpose," Graffeo said.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said last week that Shelby's move was holding up about 70 appointments, including a critical top Defense Department position overseeing deployments to the war in Afghanistan.

Well, I for one, am glad he's looking out for national security.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Friday, "If you needed one example of what's wrong with this town, it might be that one senator can hold up 70 qualified individuals to make government better because he didn't get his earmarks."

This statement needs to be repeated and repeated and repeated and echoed and repeated on all major tv networks, radio talk shows, tea bagger conventions, etc...

/and repeated and shouted from the roof tops

Racht: Weaver95: looks like his check cleared.

No, he didn't get what he wanted. He had his little hissy fit, but he knew (or more likely was told) that if he actually kept it up Democratic Senators might actually grow some balls and do something about the rampant abuse of holds. Can't have that.

Wow. I thought guys like this Shelby were incapable of feeling shame.

GAT_00: I'm still waiting for people to defend Shelby. Someone will.

This is really more of a Shelbyville idea.

Hey, don't hate the playa, hate the game.

/Got nothin

GAT_00: I'm still waiting for people to defend Shelby. Someone will.

Gato Negro, Printboy, skinnyhead and Phil Herup are all prime candidates.

God damnit so much, I hate my native state. It's actually a beautiful place, but it's filled with morons and assholes like this guy.

But then again, I now live in Florida, so technically it's a wash

Still planning on retiring in Alabama

rufus-t-firefly: But the GOP is COMPLETELY against earmarks.

When you said earmarks, they thought you meant ear piercings.

Fiscal Conservancy wins again. That'll teach them Spendocrats.

lilbjorn: rufus-t-firefly: But the GOP is COMPLETELY against earmarks.

When you said earmarks, they thought you meant ear piercings.

No they are against skidmarks.

LittleSmitty: God damnit so much, I hate my native state. It's actually a beautiful place, but it's filled with morons and assholes like this guy.

But then again, I now live in Florida, so technically it's a wash

Still planning on retiring in Alabama

And snakes, don't forget snakes. Alabama is full of snakes.

As a Conservative, I am appalled by this. IMHO these projects should proceed, as they ARE vital projects, but they should proceed in a different state. That would take some wind out of his neo-con sails. farking rino's.

Doubleodoug: LittleSmitty: God damnit so much, I hate my native state. It's actually a beautiful place, but it's filled with morons and assholes like this guy.

But then again, I now live in Florida, so technically it's a wash

Still planning on retiring in Alabama

And snakes, don't forget snakes. Alabama is full of snakes.

Yeah, both the no legs variety and the two legs variety.

But Florida has bigger snakes, and more and larger bugs. Jesus jumping catfish, there are some HUGE bugs here.

FTA: Graffeo denied that Shelby's demands revolved around earmarks. Regarding the Air Force tankers, the spokesman said Shelby "is seeking to ensure an open, fair and transparent competition that delivers the best equipment to our men and women in uniform."

I'm not a big believer in the Invisible Sky Wizard, but I'm surprised that Graffeo didn't get smited by a bolt of heavenly lightning for that one.

LittleSmitty: Doubleodoug: LittleSmitty: God damnit so much, I hate my native state. It's actually a beautiful place, but it's filled with morons and assholes like this guy.

But then again, I now live in Florida, so technically it's a wash

Still planning on retiring in Alabama

And snakes, don't forget snakes. Alabama is full of snakes.

Yeah, both the no legs variety and the two legs variety.

But Florida has bigger snakes, and more and larger bugs. Jesus jumping catfish, there are some HUGE bugs here.

Pam Iorio?

FTA:
Regarding the Air Force tankers, the spokesman said Shelby "is seeking to ensure an open, fair and transparent competition that delivers the best equipment to our men and women in uniform."
...
Shelby's move was holding up about 70 appointments, including a critical top Defense Department position overseeing deployments to the war in Afghanistan.

Just kinda pullin' reasons out of the air then ditching them when they don't fit, aren't we?

This article is Reason Number 251,762,727 why politics are so farked in this country.

Assholes...the entire lot of them.

Too bad there is no way, either of our douchebag senators will ever get thrown out of office before they retire.

I saw this on ABC news last night. Looks like ABC news was asking questions about it all day for a story on it last night. At the end of the story, the reporter gave an update and stated that Shelby's office had contacted them a little before the broadcast and stated that Shelby was releasing most of his holds. Looks like Shelby did not want the publicity.


/What's done in the dark,

Murtha died. Boeing's guy on the hill (Norm Dicks) will become the Chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. No way Shelby wins that fight - Boeing will get all the tanker business now.

Its all going so well...
Democrats - whiny spineless victims with not one single ball in the entire party
Republicans - greedy bullying douches with no guilt or insight into the damage they are causing

That about sum it up?

/Excuses self to go puke.

The foundation and wellspring of Sen. Richard Shelby's precepts is the inarticulate doctrine of extremism, but that's not the point of this letter. The point is that Sen. Shelby needs some serious professional help. Instead of focusing on why Sen. Shelby continuously repackages, remarkets, and relabels his bleeding-heart form of gnosticism in hopes of convincing more people that it will not commit acts of immorality, dishonesty, and treason, I would like to remind people that mass anxiety is the equivalent of steroids for him. If we feel helpless, Sen. Shelby is energized and ramps up his efforts to give an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgments. I do not intend this letter to be in any way misinterpreted as a personal attack on Sen. Shelby. You don't need to be the smartest guy on the planet to figure that out. Heck, even the lowliest Joe Six-Pack knows that Sen. Shelby spouts a lot of numbers whenever he wants to make a point. He then subjectively interprets those numbers to support his sentiments while ignoring the fact that some people don't seem to mind that he likes to deny the obvious. What a blasphemous, stuporous world we live in!

Some people have compared wretched, biased wheeler-dealers to obstreperous snollygosters. I would like to take the comparison one step further: Knowledge is the key that unlocks the shackles of bondage. That's why it's important for you to know that on theoretical grounds alone, Sen. Shelby's statements are so filled with errors that I feel some futility in replying to them. But wait-as they say on late-night television infomercials-there's more: Sen. Shelby wants to control every aspect of our lives. He wants us to rise, fall asleep, work, and live at the beat of a drum. Then, once we're molded into a uniform mass, we'll be incapable of seeing that if Sen. Shelby doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to diminish our will to live, then he should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend he buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then Sen. Shelby will grasp the concept that whenever he is blamed for conspiring to use rock music, with its savage, tribal, orgiastic beat, to distract people from making a serious analysis of the situation, he blames his trucklers. Doing so reinforces their passivity and obedience and increases their guilt, shame, terror, and conformity, thereby making them far more willing to help Sen. Shelby create an ideological climate that will enable him to condemn innocent people to death.

Efforts to pigeonhole people into predetermined categories are not vestiges of a former era. They are the beginnings of a phenomenon which, if permitted to expand unchecked, will deflect attention from Sen. Shelby's unwillingness to support policies that benefit the average citizen. I would rail on at length about Sen. Shelby's empty-headed ebullitions but will leave that for another time. Suffice it to say that many people lie. However, Sen. Shelby lies with such ease it's troubling.

If Sen. Shelby can't be reasoned out of his prejudices, he must be laughed out of them. If Sen. Shelby can't be argued out of his selfishness, he must be shamed out of it. As rancorous as his circulars are, he uses obscure words like "microcinematographic" and "thymolsulphonephthalein" to conceal his agenda to replace the search for truth with a situationist relativism based on saturnine deconstructionism. I, speaking as someone who is not an unruly predaceous-type, find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that conclaves of Sen. Shelby's confreres have all the dissent found in a North Korean communist party meeting. That's why no one there will ever admit that like a verbal magician, Sen. Shelby knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak.

If five years ago I had described a person like Sen. Shelby to you and told you that in five years he'd bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture, you'd have thought me grotty. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how he periodically puts up a façade of reform. However, underneath the pretty surface, it's always business as usual. There are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Sen. Shelby doing some confused thing every few weeks. His pathetic deputies are nothing more than subservient blobs of easily controlled protoplasm. That's why they're so willing to help Sen. Shelby manipulate everything and everybody. To conclude, the erroneous things Sen. Richard Shelby says about me are sometimes entertaining, oftentimes sad, and frequently thoroughly jealous.

Coach_J: This article is Reason Number 251,762,727 why politics are so farked in this country.

Assholes...the entire lot of them.

I truly believe that we do, from time to time, elect good people. They get to the Hill and in short order are assimilated into the machine.

I'm pretty sure the GOP put a smackdown on him for this AWing. They don't want there to be support to change this "feature" of our government.

What a dick.

Can't we just burn down Washington and start over?

Mr.Insightful: Weaver95: looks like his check cleared.

No. Someone shined a flashlight on cockroach, and he scuttled away.

Thereby turning the flashlight away from someone else who can do a blanket hold for some mushier, unfixable-through-buying-him-off reason. And then keep it on clear through to November.

I guarantee you this is not the last we've heard of the blanket hold.

RyogaM: I saw this on ABC news last night. Looks like ABC news was asking questions about it all day for a story on it last night. At the end of the story, the reporter gave an update and stated that Shelby's office had contacted them a little before the broadcast and stated that Shelby was releasing most of his holds. Looks like Shelby did not want the publicity.

Don't let him off the hook. Keep shouting that he did it in the first place. For the sake of pork. And that he's still doing it for three of the nominees.

Psumek: GAT_00: I'm still waiting for people to defend Shelby. Someone will.

Gato Negro, Printboy, skinnyhead and Phil Herup are all prime candidates.

Aren't they all traveling?