GOP, Democrats Clash Over Spending Bill (poor poor babies....

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Congress-Spending.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

anuary 31, 2007
GOP, Democrats Clash Over Spending Bill
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:15 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans complained bitterly Wednesday that they had been shut out of the secretive process in which Democrats assembled a huge spending bill to sweep clear a budgetary mess they inherited.

As the House kicked off debate on the bill, Republicans said the measure was being rushed to the floor without adequate time for lawmakers to read it and without the chance to offer changes.

''I cannot recall in the entire time I've been a member of the House a single appropriations bill that has not been open to amendment at some level,'' said Rep. James Walsh, R-N.Y., a 10-term veteran. ''Frankly, I think that's a travesty.''

..more at link but bring a crying towel ..

[LSparkle]

1. Didn't the bill pass?

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, poor Repukes!

[MadMaddie]

2. Republicans are stoopid creatures aren't they.

When they are doing it, it's okay. At least the Dems aren't doing it at midnight.

[0rganism]

3. Funny how it gets so much coverage now, though

For TEN FREAKING YEARS the republicans, under Tom Delay, ran the House like the Dems were some of those quasi-legal migrant workers the Republicans love to hate yet can't live without, and nary a peep from the newsmedia the whole time.

Now, the Dems are in charge for less than a month, using THE SAME FUCKING RULES, and I've seen at least half a dozen full-coverage articles about how unfair the Democratic majority is to their poor republican colleagues.

Cry me a river, Denny Hastert, cry me a river. :nopity:

[MadMaddie]

4. Yea it's pathetic.

And does the news report that the bills that are being passed langueshed with the Republican party for years. Nope. Just how they are being treated unfairly. What comes around goes around.