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Dems Declare Political War in the House
Fox News ^ | 6/27/03 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

Posted on 06/27/2003 6:07:57 AM PDT by Pest

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:36:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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Hoyer testified that, “when Democrats controlled the House, we did not always provide for fair debates. We should neither excuse those past practices, nor countenance the current ones."

Translation: We know we did it, but it's unfair now.

1 posted on 06/27/2003 6:07:57 AM PDT by Pest
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To: Pest
Unlike the Senate, I don't think there is a whole lot they can do in the House.
2 posted on 06/27/2003 6:09:07 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Pest
yup.

House rules give the minority party less leeway in fighting the majority’s agenda

Gee, I wonder where these rules originated?

3 posted on 06/27/2003 6:10:31 AM PDT by SC_Republican (mmmm....FOOTBALL)
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To: Pest
“There are some more dramatic ways we can express ourselves.”

Oh, no...they're gonna bring on the puppeteers again!

4 posted on 06/27/2003 6:12:19 AM PDT by SavageRepublican
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To: SC_Republican
My gosh, let me mark this day on my calendar. Democrats are actually complaining! Who could have predicted this?
5 posted on 06/27/2003 6:12:52 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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“Mr. Speaker, this is one of the most cynical, arrogant displays of power that I have ever witnessed in this House,” Hoyer charged during a June 12 debate on the GOP proposal.

Hmmmmmmm I guess this maroon wasn't around for the 40+ years the dims controlled the House!

6 posted on 06/27/2003 6:13:19 AM PDT by borisbob69 (This space available...)
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To: Pest
I just noticed something: 229-206. What were the numbers when the GOP first took the House in 1994? We have been led to believe in every election that we were "losing ground," but this seems up several seats from just a couple of years ago, and about where we were in 1994, is it not?
7 posted on 06/27/2003 6:18:08 AM PDT by LS
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House rules give the minority party less leeway in fighting the majority’s agenda

Isn't that the way a democratic form of government is supposed to work? The People elect the representatives they think will best represent their views in congress. If the majority of the representatives are Republican, then that's what The People want. Therefore, the majority should rule.

8 posted on 06/27/2003 6:26:11 AM PDT by Pest
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To: LS
230 in 1995. We should have 230 now but LA-05 screwed it up for us.
9 posted on 06/27/2003 6:28:04 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: LS
The GOP gained about 5-6 seats last election, as I recall.
10 posted on 06/27/2003 6:28:08 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: Pest
Or, "It was okay when we did itm but not when it is being doen to us."

If I were the Republican leadership, I would nationalize the next race and highlight the Rats' policy of obstructionism.
11 posted on 06/27/2003 6:30:48 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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I heard an audio clip on the radio this morning but I didn't catch the name of the Senator who made the following statement on the medicare bill: "It used to be that GOP stood for Grand Ole Party. Now it stands for Get Old People". How low can you go?
12 posted on 06/27/2003 6:31:57 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Gabrielle Reilly
ping
13 posted on 06/27/2003 6:36:45 AM PDT by Gabrielle Reilly
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> House rules give the minority party less leeway in fighting the majority’s agenda

Gee, I wonder where these rules originated?

I'll wager that the most-restrictive on the minority's power came into being between January 5, 1955 and January 3, 1995 when the DemonRATs had a 40-year lock on the House.

14 posted on 06/27/2003 6:40:46 AM PDT by steveegg (Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, air-burst artillery and thermonuclear weapons)
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Just Dems being Dems, stomping their feet and turning blue when they don't get their way.
15 posted on 06/27/2003 6:41:05 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
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Do it, DemonRats! You're not angry and militant enough.

This is all they can do. It's not like they have a vision, an actual plan, or any reasonable justification for what they want.

16 posted on 06/27/2003 6:42:03 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (No animals were harmed during the making of this post.)
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How about this Dem House member:

• As sometimes happens with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), he let his mouth race ahead of his brain Wednesday night at a gathering of Young Democrats at the Washington nightspot Acropolis. After presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke, Kennedy delivered an impassioned peroration against President Bush's tax cut. We hear that Kennedy told the crowd: "I don't need Bush's tax cut. I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life." With that he got the audience's attention -- the dropping-jaws kind.
17 posted on 06/27/2003 6:44:37 AM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: freeperfromnj
"It used to be that GOP stood for Grand Ole Party. Now it stands for Get Old People".

Maybe someone who has followed politics longer than I can remember when that was first used. I think it might have started back in the Reagan years.

18 posted on 06/27/2003 6:50:04 AM PDT by StriperSniper (Frogs are for gigging)
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Hoyer testified that, “when Democrats controlled the House, we did not always provide for fair debates. We should neither excuse those past practices, nor countenance the current ones."..Translation: We know we did it, but it's unfair now.

????...No Answer Required...Anybody have the New 'RAT (baby Crying) seal Avail.?

19 posted on 06/27/2003 6:51:23 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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I heard an audio clip on the radio this morning but I didn't catch the name of the Senator who made the following statement on the medicare bill: "It used to be that GOP stood for Grand Ole Party. Now it stands for Get Old People". How low can you go?

The Very, very, Elderly, Senile Sen. Fritz Hollings..from S.C., I believe.

20 posted on 06/27/2003 6:57:23 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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