A shocking loophole in United States Senate rules

It's about time (4.00 / 1)

someone cleared the way.
The entire Publican agenda is to make the Democrats look like failures by any means necessary, even if it hurts the American people.
If Publicans weren't such reprehensible douche bags I might consider talking to them.  

Restore democracy and the Constitution for which it stands.

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by: The Wizard @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 11:11:19 AM UTC

I wonder ... (3.00 / 1)

The Rs say a vote without a legit meeting never has been called in the history of the committee.

But,

Has either party ever boycotted  every meeting that has a certain bill on the agenda?

Perhaps it's the Rs who broke history first and not the D who made a judgment call about what to do about it.

Personally, I think those 11 Rs should be fired for violating their oaths of office.  Their constituents hired them to work in Washington, not play hooky from their assigned meetings.

The boycott was clearly a miscarriage of the U.S. Constitution.

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by: jim34 @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 12:12:20 PM UTC

Interesting comments (0.00 / 0)

TPM has a CSPAN clip of it:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo...

I wonder how the health insurance reform debate would have come out if the Rs hadn't had all the time in the world to gin up a barrel full of lies about death panels and abortion taxes.

The R's unclean hands on the health care stall is the real precedent.  I don't blame the Ds for not believing Voinovich this time.  If he's sincere, he needs to work on his own party to get its credibility back.

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by: jim34 @ Fri Nov 06, 2009 at 12:23:22 PM UTC