#12 | Posted by COMMONSENSE "
It was OK when Congressional republicans did it to the Democrats, but when state lawmakers do it , it's suddenly 'Stalinist'?"
Provide a link please because I think you have that backwards.
Dems turns out the lights
www.politico
#23 | Posted by wurster at 2009-06-09 06:46 PM | Reply | Flag:
Before you attack the source, RS is not known for inaccuracies.
www.rollingstone.com
Sensenbrenner (R) 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.
For similarly petulant moves by a committee chair, one need look no further than the Ways and Means Committee, where 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.
So, It wasn't the Dems doing it first.....it was simply payback for all the shit the repubs did while in power.
Karma is a bitch.
