http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121202837_pf.html
But, here's a real gem:
Now, imagine what all you Dems/Liberals would have said if the GOP had done this when they were in the majority. Be honest: you'd hit the roof, whine, cry, scream about an 'abuse of power' and any number of things like that.
If the Dems/liberals have such a 'mandate' to do all the things they said they would do in their campaigns, why haven't they done any of it?
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of developing "Stockholm syndrome," showing sympathy to their Republican captors by caving in on legislation...
Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of governance.
But, here's a real gem:
If Republicans want to filibuster a bill, Rangel said, Reid should keep the bill on the Senate floor and force the Republicans to talk it to death...."If there's going to be a filibuster, let's hear the damn filibuster," Rangel fumed. "Let's fight this damned thing out."
Now, imagine what all you Dems/Liberals would have said if the GOP had done this when they were in the majority. Be honest: you'd hit the roof, whine, cry, scream about an 'abuse of power' and any number of things like that.
If the Dems/liberals have such a 'mandate' to do all the things they said they would do in their campaigns, why haven't they done any of it?