Friday, March 08, 2013

The tribune of the people

While the Rand Paul filibuster was going on, the question arose -- what are other senators saying? Brad Carlson wondered that, too. So he checked the ol' Twitter feed and found that Amy Klobuchar had her attention focused in a different place:

Klobee's most recent tweet occurred at 6:19 pm CT Wednesday, when Paul was approximately 7-1/2 hours into his filibuster. It was as follows:

A gust of helium


Focused like a laser on the important issues of the day.

2 comments:

3john2 said...

She was missing a hell of a game of Jeopardy on the Senate floor. "I'll take 'Ways Your Government Can Legally Kill You' for $600, Eric."

Here's a photo the Attorney General presiding: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jeffrey+holder&id=5559CEE471E1A332C0D47D7288983477313D3F58&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=5559CEE471E1A332C0D47D7288983477313D3F58&selectedIndex=0

3john2 said...

She was missing a hell of a game of Jeopardy on the Senate floor. "I'll take 'Ways Your Government Can Legally Kill You' for $600, Eric."

Here's a photo the Attorney General Holder presiding: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=jeffrey+holder&id=5559CEE471E1A332C0D47D7288983477313D3F58&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=5559CEE471E1A332C0D47D7288983477313D3F58&selectedIndex=0