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Feb. 14th, 2008 01:22 pmLooks like the Republicans are taking their ball and going home:
House Republicans have just staged a walkout from the chamber to protest the decision of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership to let an act that expands the government’s surveillance powers expire.
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Pelosi and the Democratic leadership believe there isn’t enough time to reconcile the differences between the Senate and House versions of the act, which would make adjustments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permanent, giving the government more power to monitor phone calls and emails without a court order in certain circumstances. The Democrats want a second extension of the current act to work out the differences.
SamfromUtah comments:
too hope the Democrats won’t cave - but I have this sinking feeling the only reason they haven’t is that they haven’t yet found a way to do it that maximizes their own humiliation enough.
Zsa adds:
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See, this is what you do when you’re in the minority … you stage walkouts, you complain loudly, you work every angle.
The Dems are such a bunch of pussies. If they had walked out of a Republican-controlled House, the GOP leadership would’ve locked the doors and instructed the sergeant-at-arms to reassign all the Democrats parking spaces.
Then they would’ve proposed and voted on even more ridiculous tyrannical powers for George Bush to exercise. They have made Bush’s favorite horse a member of the Senate.
Man, I hate the fucking Republicans like they’re some kind of nasty infection, but the evil bastards do know how to play the game.
House Republicans have just staged a walkout from the chamber to protest the decision of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership to let an act that expands the government’s surveillance powers expire.
[...]
Pelosi and the Democratic leadership believe there isn’t enough time to reconcile the differences between the Senate and House versions of the act, which would make adjustments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act permanent, giving the government more power to monitor phone calls and emails without a court order in certain circumstances. The Democrats want a second extension of the current act to work out the differences.
SamfromUtah comments:
too hope the Democrats won’t cave - but I have this sinking feeling the only reason they haven’t is that they haven’t yet found a way to do it that maximizes their own humiliation enough.
Zsa adds:
#
See, this is what you do when you’re in the minority … you stage walkouts, you complain loudly, you work every angle.
The Dems are such a bunch of pussies. If they had walked out of a Republican-controlled House, the GOP leadership would’ve locked the doors and instructed the sergeant-at-arms to reassign all the Democrats parking spaces.
Then they would’ve proposed and voted on even more ridiculous tyrannical powers for George Bush to exercise. They have made Bush’s favorite horse a member of the Senate.
Man, I hate the fucking Republicans like they’re some kind of nasty infection, but the evil bastards do know how to play the game.
