Comments on: Open Thread 06/20/05

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:40:07 +0000

The Torch flew the coop before anything that serious could occur. He just had his hand slapped.

Even Packwood resigned before it came to censure or worse.

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:29:41 +0000

Wasn’t the Torch censured?

By: pw

pw — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:51:59 +0000

Remember the series “Chicago Hope”? In the first episode, the chief of staff, Dr. Austin Hacket, croaked while screwing an intern (I think it was an intern) in a MRI machine.

By: jones

jones — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:41:23 +0000

The folks who did it in a CAT scan always concerned me. That is creepy on many levels.

By: Bitterlaw

Bitterlaw — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:03:21 +0000

While I believe in research and female orgasms, I find it a little creepy that people wanted to be measured and scanned during their fun time.

By: pw

pw — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:02:05 +0000

Hmmm…hope Lisa sees this.:)

By: McCain

McCain — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:25:53 +0000

Here is a very important scientific study about female orgasms. I wonder if they had any trouble signing up the participants?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050620/sc_nm/health_fertility_orgasm_dc_1

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:14:34 +0000

I have mentioned several times the Hollins Six. Those mid-day drinkers who welcomed Ernest Hollins to the Senate in 1966.

Some of been subjects of Trivia questions.

Thomas Dodd (1)as mentioned had to one of them.

Richard Russell(2) for sure.

John Tower (3) almost positive

and now the above mentioned Herman Talmadge (4) almost for certain.

Press reports at the time of Hollin’s remarks also pointed to Thurston Morton (5) of Kentucky as a likely candidate.

I am certain of the other one or whether Hollins was just saying 5 or 6 drunks and was wanting to detail an exact number.

I am not sure what Bingham did. Its worth noting that this CT. Yankee’s son became a Liberal democratic congressman from NY. Other then McCarthy all the above mentioned censured senators had money handling problems. A senator can pretty much what they want on the floor unless called on the carpet by the presiding officer. Kinda like the few instances where the speaker in the house has called a member down for his remarks.

By: Tim V

Tim V — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:55:36 +0000

your right Palinurus

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-united-states-senators-expelled-or-censured

By: palinurus

palinurus — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:46:46 +0000

Tim V — last one censured, I think, was David Durenberger. I’m guessing 9 or 10 were censured, including Tallmadge, Joe Mccarthy, and Thomas Dodd and Hiram Bingham, both of CT.