Dems change locks on Capitol offices; tell Repubs to get lost

Fox News Channel | 10/21/09

[pabianice]

Breaking on Fox/Cavuto. No Repubs now have access to any meeting rooms in the Capitol Building. Reid to hold fourth secret meeting on ObamaCare tomorrow. No one besides committee members to be allowed into any meetings. No press coverage. No statements. They are working on a 1,500 + page bill in an attempt to merge different versions.

A Dem liar is on Cavuto now saying that the process is indeed open and transparent because the Dems are releasing what information they feel like.

Has locking-out the minority party in Congress ever been done before?

[GeronL]

Welcome to the era of the American Politburo or whatever it was called.

Secret government.

[Red Badger]

DEM...now saying that the process is indeed open and transparent because the Dems are releasing what information they feel like.

Newspeak.........

[kellynla]

They act like a bunch of children...

11/2010 won’t come soon enough for me!

[Westbrook]

> Has locking-out the minority party in Congress ever been
> done before?

Yes, but only by DemonRATs.

[unkus]

This means a big fight. This could even play out in our favor.

[RowdyFFC]

The shennanigans in Washington DC are turning into a total circus of ineffectiveness!

It’s time for Americans to start kicking behinds!

Is such a stunt even legal?

[Ingtar]

I hope you see a change in 11/2010. I, however, have great faith in the RINO’s ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[maeng]

What would happen if ALL Republicans walked out and did not vote on anything or attend any meetings whatsoever? Would this halt the government or would the Dems just keep on going anyway?

[RebelTXRose]

They tried that in New York this summer.... Good Grief! The inmates are in charge of the asylum!

[Puppage]

Didn’t Obie just finishing say how “the republicans don’t know how to act properly?”

[cajungirl]

This is most peculiar.

Do we need a judge to stop this. I am shocked and wondering why I get shocked anymore. My husband says “oh it is part of their revolution”,,

[rovenstinez]

But...but..ah..eh..I was told that this was going to be THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN MODERN HISTORY.

[Red Badger]

Time to ready the samizdat presses............

[Jeff Chandler]

When the bully (Democrat) knows you are a wimp (Republican), he will bully you more.

Hey, Juan McCain! How’s that reaching out across the aisle working out for you, my friend?

[KingLudd]

Just who’s going to fight it?

[hinckley buzzard]

Certain 'rat committee chairs have done this in the past. I believe they changed the rules once the GOP gained the majority and made a quorum dependent on at least one minority member present. But these meetings are not a committee as I read it, just backroom politicking without formal standing under the rules. No doubt the pubs will accept being locked out with a minimum of complaint.

[chris37]

It will never happen. I’m quite sure Juan McCain and Lindsgay Graham are trying to reach out to the RATS right now...

[Kartographer]

I betting it won't be long now!

[Red Badger]

He’s right. They don’t....................

[Ben Mugged]

Damn it THIS IS A REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT!! WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO BE REPRESENTED??

[jazusamo]

WTH? This sure doesn’t sound like the country I grew up in.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

I think your right. The Dems have to go behind closed doors to twist some arms. This is the LBJ demmie party at work. So we should see a lot of republicans on air for the next couple of days talking about our secret government. They should also remind the viewers of the absence of integrity re- Rangle while they are at it.

[Brilliant]

The GOP needs to go to court and get a judge to order that the Dems are violating the Constitution by blocking them from access to the Capitol where they must be permitted to do their constitutionally prescribed duties as duly elected Members of Congress.

[bigbob]

If this is true, then EVERY Republican senator (except the Maine delegation) should be holding press conferences and screaming bloody murder.

But they won’t, because they’re “collegial” and all that b@lls#it...

If one of those Dem liars dares to reache across that aisle they ought to yank his freakin’ arm out of its socket!

[Dilbert San Diego]

But, Obama promised us that negotiations and debates on major issues such as healthcare would be on C-Span. It was all part of his transparency ideas.

The watchword is now secrecy, isn’t it? Secret negotiations, and excluding Republicans, is now what will happen. And they will pass something with zero Republican support, and will use a nuclear option in the Senate to pass it there.

And the signing ceremony when Obama signs the bill will be closed to Republicans and Fox News reporters and cameras.

[skr]

Has locking-out the minority party in Congress ever been done before?

Probably, but it was unlikely that transparency was ever ascribed to it.

[Ditto]

What would happen if ALL Republicans walked out and did not vote on anything or attend any meetings whatsoever? Would this halt the government or would the Dems just keep on going anyway?

The few Blue Dog Dems there would be promptly executed.

[silverleaf]

The GOP needs to caucus IN THE PUBLIC AREA OF THE US CAPITOL! NOW!

Reid is turning out to be a perfect dictator’s stooge, isn’t he?

[Venturer]

Get some Republicans with balls , a good battering ram and tear the friggin door down.

Nothing gives the majority the right to spend my money changing the locks and locking out half of the Congress.

This has to be a violation of the Constitution, or the rules of Congress or both.

Who the Fugg to these people think they are?

[Puppage]

When will they hold their breath until they turned blue?

[fuente]

So much for a Republic. When one group prevents another’s duly elected representative from having a say, the Republic is lost. It will not be long now.

[Texan Tory]

“Has locking-out the minority party in Congress ever been done before?”

Locking out the minority party has been done before, in Germany circa 1933.

[kellynla]

Yea, well unless the Gelding Old Party gets a testicle & spine implant before next year, I expect you might be right.

[BradyLS]

I agree. That’s why I’m not voting for RINO’s, either.

[Red Badger]

It’ll be on the History Channel before it’s on C-Span.................

[SMARTY]

If a Republican majority pulled a stunt like that, you'd never hear the end of it! They’d be at the door with axes!

[pabianice]

Alas...

[silverleaf]

If there are any GOP staffers out there reading this-
please go put superglue in the locks of all the bathrooms in the democrat office areas.

he he he

[unkus]

I agree with you. These fascist bastards are jusk asking for a fight and they’ll get it.

They are ticking off more and more people by the day.

re

[mware]

Break out the tents and put them up on the Capitol steps. Let the R's have a camp out until the doors are opened.

[afraidfortherepublic]

What would happen if ALL Republicans walked out and did not vote on anything or attend any meetings whatsoever?

Something like that happened in Texas in the 1970s. Truthfully I forget which Party, but I think it was the Dems. They called themselves the "Killer Bees" and they all took off and hid and refused to come to the Legislature. THe Legislature could not do anything without this group. They sent the Texas Rangers after them, but it took a couple of weeks to round them up, as I remember.

[Texas Fossil]

At the county level we Republicans were “locked in” the County Courthouse by the Dem’s after a primary election. I guess we would have spent the night if it had not been for cell phones.

[BradyLS]

My first thought, too.

[Enough is ENOUGH]

This is an historic moment as we witness the transformation of Amerika.

[ClayinVA]

yep, and bring a camera crew from Fox News. Your are a congressman, what are they going to do, arrest you? I doubt it.

[brytlea]

And you know, you and I OWN those offices.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

WHY AM I NOT ALLOWED TO BE REPRESENTED??

Well if I am, it certainly isn't by any member of our delegation.

[Texas Fossil]

The Dems bolted and went to NM.

[SoCalPol]

If you Don’t vote for a Republican, you get a democrat victory.

this is why there is a Democrat majority in congress pulling this crap.