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Sauron · 07-18-2003, 01:39 PM

....or Texas tactics, to deal with Democrats:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hptop_tb

Quote:

House Democrats Storm Out of Ways and Means Committee
Chairman Calls Capitol Police to Restore Order

By Juliette Eilperin and Albert B. Crenshaw
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 18, 2003; 4:06 PM

Months of political tension in the House of Representatives erupted into open warfare today when Democrats stormed out of a Ways and Means Committee session and the panel's chairman called in the Capitol Police.

The day began with a fairly ordinary procedural fight over an otherwise-innocuous pension bill. Committee Democrats complained that the Republican majority had not given them enough time to review a substitute bill that they had received shortly before midnight Thursday. Most of the Democrats then moved to a nearby library to plot strategy after they demanded that Republicans read the legislation line by line.

Infuriated, Ways and Means Committee Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) instructed the Capitol Police to remove the Democrats from the ornate library. Republicans said Democrats were being disorderly and did not have the right to occupy the libary.

You're either going to vote for our programs, or we'll call in reinforcements.

jman0904 · 07-18-2003, 01:46 PM

Remember the Dem's Exodus to Okla. earlier this year?
I love the "If you won't play with me I'll beat you up!" or "If you don't vote my way I'll sic the hounds on you!" mentality the Repubs have been exhibiting lately. It would be amusing if not so damn frightening.

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07-18-2003, 01:46 PM	#2
jman0904 Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Oregon, the new Least Religious State in America Posts: 453	Remember the Dem's Exodus to Okla. earlier this year? I love the "If you won't play with me I'll beat you up!" or "If you don't vote my way I'll sic the hounds on you!" mentality the Repubs have been exhibiting lately. It would be amusing if not so damn frightening.

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