A little reminder of how the Rs in power treated the Dems

[Truthmatters]

COVER STORY: Time to Go! Inside the Worst Congress Ever : Rolling Stone


Rep. Bill Thomas -- a pugnacious Californian with an enviable ego who was caught having an affair with a pharmaceutical lobbyist -- enjoys a reputation rivaling that of the rotund Sensenbrenner. The lowlight of his reign took place just before midnight on July 17th, 2003, when Thomas dumped a "substitute" pension bill on Democrats -- one that they had never read -- and informed them they would be voting on it the next morning. Infuriated, Democrats stalled by demanding that the bill be read out line by line while they recessed to a side room to confer. But Thomas wanted to move forward -- so he called the Capitol police to evict the Democrats.

Just one story out of MANY in the article

 

[uscitizen]

But that has nothing to do with anything per the party of personal responsibility.
Just wait and see.

 

[Truthmatters]

How is it that a second old thread is marked "old"?

 

[uscitizen]

must be the virus getting to the board. A few strange things have been going on today.

 

[Truthmatters]

It has been happening to me for months now.

I post in a thread and it gets marked "old"

 

[MarcATL]

Thanks for this ENLIGHTENING thread.

Feel free to post more of these enlightening tidbits.

 

[uscitizen]

In the third quarter of 2008, Americans began saving more and spending less. Hurrah! That only took 40 years to happen. We've been borrowing, borrowing, borrowing — living off and believing in the wealth effect, first in stocks, which ended badly, then in real estate, which has ended even worse. Now we're out of bubbles. We have a lot less wealth — and a lot more effect. Household debt in the U.S. — the money we owe as individuals — zoomed to more than 130% of income in 2007, up from about 60% in 1982. We enjoyed living beyond our means — no wonder we wanted to believe it would never end.

Read more: American Consumers - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis - TIME

 

[amrchaos]

must be the virus getting to the board. A few strange things have been going on today.

OK citizen--who is the babe in your Avatar?

 

[Truthmatters]

Kinda pales the silly stories the Rs have been trying to pass off as unkind behavior from the dems huh?

Republicans have NO intention of acting in a bipartisan manner

 

[The Rabbi]

Kinda pales the silly stories the Rs have been trying to pass off as unkind behavior from the dems huh?

Republicans have NO intention of acting in a bipartisan manner

Uh oh. It's the "everyone does it" defense. THis is the Dem's special stock in trade. Everyone bangs their 20 something interns. No big deal. Everyone takes bribe money from the Chinese. No big deal. Everyone blocks judicial nominees just because they can. No big deal.
Now it's everyone rams unpalatable bills affecting one sixth of the economy down our throats.
OOps. I guess only Democrats do that.
Yeah, your thread is old all right.

 

[amrchaos]

In the third quarter of 2008, Americans began saving more and spending less. Hurrah! That only took 40 years to happen. We've been borrowing, borrowing, borrowing — living off and believing in the wealth effect, first in stocks, which ended badly, then in real estate, which has ended even worse. Now we're out of bubbles. We have a lot less wealth — and a lot more effect. Household debt in the U.S. — the money we owe as individuals — zoomed to more than 130% of income in 2007, up from about 60% in 1982. We enjoyed living beyond our means — no wonder we wanted to believe it would never end.

Read more: American Consumers - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis - TIME

That article is BS!!

Where is Barnie Franks!! Every red blooded Americans know that Barnie Franks single handedly brought down the American Financial institutions by threatening Banks with Widescale and across the country protests!! Everyone knows that is the only way you can rob a bank legally--with a Democrat and his socialists allies demanding credit for poor people!!

 

[California Girl]

Grow the fuck up. One side behaving badly does not give the other side the right to do likewise. In fact, I seem to remember some lying SOB promising a bipartisan administration. Change in Washington....

The only thing worse than the republicans is the fucking democrats. All pondscum.

 

[Truthmatters]

Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
"Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway."

Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.

"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room.

 

[MarcATL]

In the third quarter of 2008, Americans began saving more and spending less. Hurrah! That only took 40 years to happen. We've been borrowing, borrowing, borrowing — living off and believing in the wealth effect, first in stocks, which ended badly, then in real estate, which has ended even worse. Now we're out of bubbles. We have a lot less wealth — and a lot more effect. Household debt in the U.S. — the money we owe as individuals — zoomed to more than 130% of income in 2007, up from about 60% in 1982. We enjoyed living beyond our means — no wonder we wanted to believe it would never end.

Read more: American Consumers - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis - TIME

But, but...isn't it all Obama's fault?

 

[Modbert]

Grow the fuck up. One side behaving badly does not give the other side the right to do likewise. In fact, I seem to remember some lying SOB promising a bipartisan administration. Change in Washington....

The only thing worse than the republicans is the fucking democrats. All pondscum.

I'm pretty sure they can be equally bad. But don't let your partisanship get in the way of clear-headed thinking. Though maybe you can point me to the link that says the Democrats are doing this currently?

 

[Truthmatters]

Grow the fuck up. One side behaving badly does not give the other side the right to do likewise. In fact, I seem to remember some lying SOB promising a bipartisan administration. Change in Washington....

The only thing worse than the republicans is the fucking democrats. All pondscum.

Nope , the republicans treated the dems like dirt.

Go read the article , in exchange the Dems have TRIED to get the Rs to help but all they have done is obstruct the process.

This whole thing of the Rs and Ds are equally bad is horseshit.

The Rs are complete assholes

 

[MarcATL]

Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
"Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway."

Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.

"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room.

Why are the Republicans so unwilling to even question or find out more about the Patriot Act?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Grow the fuck up. One side behaving badly does not give the other side the right to do likewise. In fact, I seem to remember some lying SOB promising a bipartisan administration. Change in Washington....

The only thing worse than the republicans is the fucking democrats. All pondscum.

I love your use of profanity, it adds elan to your usual partisan banalities.

 

[Truthmatters]

One of the most depressing examples of one-party rule is the Patriot Act. The measure was originally crafted in classic bipartisan fashion in the Judiciary Committee, where it passed by a vote of thirty-six to zero, with famed liberals like Barney Frank and Jerrold Nadler saying aye. But when the bill was sent to the Rules Committee, the Republicans simply chucked the approved bill and replaced it with a new, far more repressive version, apparently written at the direction of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.

"They just rewrote the whole bill," says Rep. James McGovern, a minority member of the Rules Committee. "All that committee work was just for show."

 

[Truthmatters]

"I remember one incident very clearly -- I think it was 2001," says Winslow Wheeler, who served for twenty-two years as a Republican staffer in the Senate. "I was working for [New Mexico Republican] Pete Domenici at the time. We were in a Budget Committee hearing and the Democrats were debating what the final result would be. And my boss gets up and he says, 'Why are you saying this? You're not even going to be in the room when the decisions are made.' Just said it right out in the open."