Shelby's Office Confirms Holds, Lashes Out At Obama

Oh, gee, I forgot.

Be afraid, be very afraid. Those 9 foot tall islamo facists will come across the mexican border and take our guns and womenfolk.

That's always the refrain to anything by repukes.

Wouldn't it be smarter to have a freaking crime lab where people are smarter and with the requisite infrastructure, like say New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco or DC. Nah, lets put it in the backwoods of alabama. Gee that makes sense and isn't politics. Yeah, right.

Probably no accident that the worse car ever designed was called the Shelby.

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Unbefuckinglievable, the balls on this guy. Honestly I wish some people on our side would take a cue. Republicans are not serious about governance and need to be called out with more forceful language that "silly."

What would John McCain, 2008 version, say about Shelby's earmark extortion?

The Senate has to go. I don't know how, but it is clearly a way for a tiny minority to exert their will on a vast majority. I mean one single douchebag can hold up ALL nominees? WTF? And why didn't the Democrats do this when Bush was in charge?

Shelby's political comb-over is as bad as the one atop his head...

We need to keep on this story, so that MSM pick it up and air it. It is incredible that one lone idiot has so much power. It is a disgrace to our 'democracy'.

Another convincing argument in favor of a unicameral Congress.
The nation's representatives should represent people, not real estate.

why have congress at all? eliminate congressmen and just let the lobbyists write the laws.

Maybe it's the "M" in front of the "illions", these days, it takes a "B" to make anyone take notice.

Wasn't that billion dollar thing actually a tanker contract to a European manufacturer that was using Alabama as a front in the first place? Some of the jobs would be American, but only a fraction of what Boeing would represent.

Didn't Boeing get to rebid that contract more fairly?

Here's Shelby in December, stumping for the foreign company:

http://blog.al.com/live/2009/12/northrop_drops_bid_for_air_for.html

"The draft RFP is practically a sole source contract to Boeing. It's a sham," U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, said today. "If the Air Force wants a true competition - one that aims to procure the best product for our warfighter - it must fundamentally alter the current framework."

So basically, Shelby's holding the entire process hostage to create a few jobs in Alabama and a lot of jobs in Europe, but no doubt some of those few Alabama beneficiaries will benefit disproportionately, I would guess there's already been some serious cash-flow between greedy parties that is on books that can be audited.

Still, as the middle class goes, $45 million is a lot of money.
And we are talking about an IED-theme lab built for figuring out how them pesky terr'sts make bombs out of our old bombs.

Sounds like this guy might just be a tad bit full of himself!

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Yeah, I'm sure the Pork Rind Museum in Birmingham will really give those jihadists what fer!

I'm mad as hell and can't take it any more. How stupid do these Senators think we are? Anyone can see they have comb-overs! Look how bad Shelby's is!

It's time to ban Senate comb-overs. Bad enough we have to listen to them bloviate. Looking at them turns my stomach.

If they can't be honest about their pates, how can we trust them with anything?

Cowardly obstruction, thy name be Shelby.

Be sure to let Sen Cowardly Obstructionist know how you feel: http://shelby.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorShelby.EmailSenatorShelby

"Low Level political appointees"? Does he mean like the head of the TSA? This zipper lipped idiot is actually doing this because he's basically trying to get the administration to spend money for this "lab" at a military installation in his state to win a contract for Airbus, which is a foreign owned corporation. The teabaggers should love this. The Democrats, on the other hand should be out in front of the cameras pointing out his gall and irresponsibility. If Senator Shelby thinks the head of the TSA isn't the real National Security threat, he should get the hell out of public office. Republcans are truely a disgrace. Knowing their track record, it's always puzzled me why anyone who isn't wealthy would ever vote Republican.

So there's nothing Reid or Obama can do about this, or is there a tool that they have but just don't want to use because of their fecklessness?

Between the Saudis demanding we fight their war on 'terror' and the defense contractors demanding we spend all our money on them--we are victimized by the 'war on terror'.

Obama is conducting the 'war on terror' with great success. But you would never know it from the Republicans.

Republicans: The biggest SORE LOSERS in the history of the universe.

Why does that Alabama Senator with the cheap dye job hate America?

So, why isn't Reid on the floor of the Senate today saying let's all take up these nominations. Let's see if the GOP is willing to go to the mat for Shelby and his pork. If they are, that's a filibuster worth watching, eh?

Awwww, don't blame Shelby. He's trying to make up for the millions of dollars his state stands to lose because of the 3 million defective cars his non-union workers helped Toyota put on the road.

The Senate Becomes A Polish Joke
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Bringing the commonwealth to the brink of collapse.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/the-senate-becomes-a-polish-joke/

And Obama really thinks the Republicans will play ball with him on health care and jobs? They can't even back him when he takes on "reckless spending," as the GOP calls it.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

I think it was reported at the time that when Shelby left the Democrats to become a Republican he simultaneously raised the average IQ of both parties.

But seriously, folks, what ticks me off as much as anything is that when these people in Washington -- and Senators, especially -- step on their dicks then they send out some pissant spokesman to make a statement and "lash out" at someone. Shelby's a big boy, and he picked a fight with the president. Why can't he come out and face the media and tell his own story? Then again, he's probably at least as much a pissant as his spokesman.

Airbus did not win the tanker contract fair and square. The Air Force originally requested bids for a smaller aircraft, so Boeing proposed the 767. Halfway through the competition the Air Force decided it wanted a larger aircraft that could haul passengers and cargo too - typical military program mission creep. The result was that instead of penalties, Airbus got all sorts of bonus points for being a larger aircraft that costs more and burns more fuel while flying its primary mission. If Boeing had known the Air Force was going to change the rules they would have gone ahead and proposed a larger 777 based tanker. There were solid reasons that Sec. of Defense Gates threw out the second go around on the tanker selection. And by the way, the Washington delegation did get beat up over improprieties on the first tanker go around, which Boeing won.

Ok DugFMJa the US Constitution is right here for your convenience. http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html Would you mind copying and paste the part that limits the presidents power to say whatever he wants to congress?

I mean really, powers are enumerated in the main documented, limited in the Bill of Rights, and the Presidential Oath is specified but try as I might I can find anything saying or implying that the executive branch's freedom of speech is limited.

Once You find it also let us know if there was ,perhaps, some vulger language exception to this limit in farce when Cheney told a Sen. to go fuck himself on the sentate floor.

Alabama is as deserving of it's share of death-business profits as any other state. Designing and building more effective platforms for spreading God's love and the dividends of democracy is a top priority for both Republicans and ConservaDems. Any thinking person will concede that Alabama belongs front and center in this effort.

I think this is opportunity knocking. The Dems should gavel the nominees through confirmation with 50 votes, and then let the Republicans whine to the public about their lost pork. The Republicans threatened the nuclear option and the Democrats blinked. The Democrats need to be as tough as the assholes they are fighting.

The key thing here is that the Democrats have to get this sort of behavior noticed and covered by the main stream media. It does little good for us to discuss this here. Maybe it makes us feel better, but the Democrats need to take a page from the Republican playbook and find ways to barrage the media with demands that they report on exactly this sort of outrageous behavior. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they do not do this.

Let's see, Shelby is so principled that he opposes TARP as a give-away of tax dollars to prevent a complete collapse of our financial system but supports his own favored pork-barrel projects in Alabama that are a prime reason, one assumes, that he is continually re-elected. So, his principles permit him to blockade all appointments by the Obama administration until he can bring home the bacon. I am very impressed.

Well, here in Michigan, where I live, we also have an automobile industry, too. It is hurting but with a bit of luck, with some good decisions made by the Ford motor company, it will recover somewhat.

Now, we, as a state, get back from the federal government about 80 cents for every tax dollar we send to Washington. Alabama, which is by the way where my parents live, gets back just about $1.30 per dollar, if I have my facts straight.

This is an opportunity to shine a bright light on the policies that have led over the past few decades of republican domination to a tremendous funneling of wealth from blue states to red states, from the people who dutifully pay their taxes, to the people who whine about having to do so. I for one am sick and tired of this government-enforced theft, this virtual welfare for white southerners, which is made all the more maddening by the self-righteous and self-pitying complaining we are forced to hear from conservative southerners about their demands, their hypocritical sunday-school morality, their presumption of patriotism and the like. I know the south quite well and I frankly have never seen so many people defined by a common geography and history who have so emphatically placed their heads up their collective asses. Not all, no, not all, by no means all. But, most. Most, indeed.

Shelby's actions have less to do with national security and more to do with his personal job security.

He has been bought and paid for by local lobbyists working for military contractors, and so he is simply providing the services for which he has been paid.

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Shelby's hold is more about his reelection prospects than contracts for Alabama. Boeing will be awarded the tanker contract and he knows this. The only pork he has a chance of bringing home is the Bomb Lab and the chances of that are slim.
He hopes to be seen as a champion of the workers and a GOP hero by beating up on the Dems. I smell Tea Baggers and challenges for Senator Shelby.