More like this, please.

Comments

1. grandmofhelsing says:

   September 23, 2008 at 10:01 pm

   Marcy Kaptur is a bit of a kook. She used to be extremely close to various “patriot” radio talkers, especially Chuck Harder.

   • mle292 says:

     September 23, 2008 at 10:08 pm

     Marcy Kaptur is a bit of a kook.

     I don’t know you and I’m mostly only here for the bits about writing.

     It’s just irritating as all heck when someone dismisses some very good points with an ad-hominem.

     I don’t care if she has rabies, the speech was spot on.

     • Anonymous says:

       September 23, 2008 at 10:16 pm

       I especially like how the people who ask the taxpayers for $1.8 trillion dollars are the sane, responsible ones but the ones who point out what is actually going on are called “a bit of a kook.” Thanks for clearing that up.

     • grandmofhelsing says:

       September 23, 2008 at 10:17 pm

       She may very well be right. (I’m in the office, so I haven’t listened to the video yet.) But even if she is right about this issue, I don’t want any more of her. Too much baggage.

2. quitwriting says:

   September 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm

   Frankly I agree with the lady.

3. musicpsych says:

   September 23, 2008 at 11:00 pm

   I liked what she said. A little weak at the end with her proposal, just because I don’t know it’ll solve the issues she talked about in her first 5 minutes. But maybe it’s all that can be done. I’m glad to see that all of Congress isn’t just rolling over for this.

   • Todd says:

     September 23, 2008 at 11:04 pm

     The weird thing is that, in a sane world, this would be a Republican issue, not a Democratic one.

     • malsperanza says:

       September 24, 2008 at 12:20 am

       Maybe you’re thinking of the old GOP? The one with the cloth coat, Midwestern accent, and a small but prosperous family business? Barry Goldwater lured it up a dark alley, Richard Nixon mugged it and stole its coat, and Ronald Reagan murdered it. The Bush family ate its corpse.

       What does the protagonist want? The money. All of it.

       Who is the monster? Yep, the protagonist, just like in most werewolf flicks.

       What is the warning? “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.” Not as pithy as it might be, but effectively bone-chilling.

       • Todd says:

         September 24, 2008 at 12:56 am

         Geez, you sound like a crazy person.

         • malsperanza says:

           September 24, 2008 at 1:39 am

           It’s the ranting that gives me away, isn’t it?

       • quitwriting says:

         October 8, 2008 at 10:50 am

         Maybe you’re thinking of the old GOP? The one with the cloth coat, Midwestern accent, and a small but prosperous family business? Barry Goldwater lured it up a dark alley, Richard Nixon mugged it and stole its coat, and Ronald Reagan murdered it. The Bush family ate its corpse.

         I know this is weeks old, but I really wanted to say that you’ve perfectly summed up my feelings about the Republican Party.

4. blagh says:

   September 23, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   I liked her speech, and I agree with a lot of it (even if my Canadian citizenship grants me a tiny bit of immunity). But I’m curious about what kind of response it got – i.e., assuming he was responding, that guy who stood up to speak just before the video got cut off.

   • Todd says:

     September 23, 2008 at 11:42 pm

     I have no idea — I’ve only seen it posted at one relatively-obscure blog — this one, to be specific.

     • ted_slaughter says:

       September 24, 2008 at 12:19 am

       I don’t know either, but nine of ten times when I see something like this on C-Span and think “yes, exactly!”, the camera zooms out and it’s revealed that the speaker is addressing a large, empty room.

       It’s a tree-falling-in-the-woods-with-no-one-there-to-hear-it problem, which is why I’m lucky to have websites like this one, and the one the clip’s been linked from.

       • malsperanza says:

         September 24, 2008 at 12:29 am

         It may look fruitless but it’s not. She’s reading her statement into the Congressional Record, which makes it part of the legislative history, when that is compiled. (http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/fedlegishist.html and http://www.ilga.gov/commission/lrb/lrbres.htm. The latter is a state not federal site, but a good description of why a legislative history is extremely important.)

         If this bill gets passed with inadequate revisions, the legislative history will be used to amend it later (in the next administration) and/or to fight it in the courts. E.g., if the sale price of some of the toxic assets is set too hig (perhaps by Paulson, ex-CEO of–surprise!–Goldman Sachs), taxpayer lawsuits will seek to reverse the sale.

         • lotusflow says:

           September 30, 2008 at 4:52 am

           Your pic can ROCKS? 😉

5. chadu says:

   September 24, 2008 at 12:34 am

   BADASS.