Why did Feingold leave the floor? I'm just tuning in.

[MelissaB]

Thanks in advance!

[Peggy Day]

1. I must be hard to feel like there is no support for the thing

you believe in. Maybe he just had to regroup-that had to have been traumatic

[jane_pippin]

2. I don't know but I liked seeing Arlen twistin' in the wind all by himself.

I have to stop saying "twistin' in the wind" about that, but it sounds so damn satisfyin! :D

[EST]

3. Planned!

Stops the debate, allowing his words to sink in and everyone else to debate. He also had an urgent piece of bidness to attend to, I forget what it was.
He was originally scheduled to speak much earlier and got jacked around. This is very effective & made specter look stupid and ill at ease and ill informed. Double teaming with Durbin was good, too.

[KAT119]

4. The Repukes try to surprise, control, change the tactics when

ever possible on Dems. Frist & Specter created last minute surprises without informing Dems. 1st - not honorable tactics, which Reid called them on before Feingold spoke. Hard to exactly describe, not knowing the rules, just knowing/feeling the nastiness of their words b/4 Feingold spoke.

There was no agreement that Feingold would stay after his Censure Resolution to enter into debate w/ Specter, and when Specter suddenly called him to stay where he was after he had finished, it was a bully tactic in appearance.

[MelissaB]

5. Thanks everybody!

:hi: I really appreciate the answers.