Per Harry Reid: some Dems have never been in conference before cause Repub's shut them out

[KittyWampus]

COMPLETELY.

As in, Republicans repeatedly help secret meeting with no Democrats present and systematically shut out Democrats for EIGHT years.

The other day, Reid was on tv saying there are some Democrats in Congress who've never been in a conference before because of this!

Can you imagine?

This was as Stimulus Bill was going to conference.

[sharp_stick]

1. That doesn't surprise me at all

the Repuke majority was one of the most purile and juvenile I think there has ever been. They routinely blocked all Democratic motions, brought up the "nuclear option, when it looked like they wouldn't get their way and even went so far as to move Democratic Party meetings to basement rooms without electronics.

They were pathetic assholes who IMO should consider every courtesy they get now very gratefully.

If I was in charge it would be a different and very vindictive congress, but I'm a petty asshole not above such revenge like tactics.

[wryter2000]

2. I don't have to imagine it

I remember it. :)

Our Dems need to be screaming this!

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Yeah, and if Harry had a fucking pair....

He would have never let them push us around like that.
When Sensenbrener cut the lights out and shut off the mikes during one of Conyers hearings, Conyers should have kicked his ass.
They look at us like the weak kids on the playground.
If someone would punch them back, just once and knock them on their ass...

Maybe things would change.

[City Lights]

7. Well said!

:thumbsup:

[AspenRose]

4. I believe it.

[zbdent]

5. maybe Harry Reid should remind people of when Dems tried to discuss legislation ...

the ReRushicans called the cops on them ...

[spartan61]

6. Also, didn't the repukes have a secret vote meeting in the

middle of the night when they passed the Medicare Part D program? I don't think the Dems were told about the vote and were all sound asleep at 3:00 AM while they repukes were voting on the bill. How the repukes have the nerve to have so much to complain about after the way they treated the Democrats, when the Dems were in the minority, is beyond me.

[DeschutesRiver]

8. Not that we can't tell from how bad off our country is right now, but...

we simply have not had a fully functioning government for years. What an abnormal situation in Congress.

And the reason that it isn't swinging back the other way full force right now is that we have a simply brilliant strategist as CIC.

I really admire this guy. Was just watching the freaks at CNBC, particularly Charlie Gasbag Gasparino, excitedly reporting that after Geitthner's (butchered that spelling, I know) speech, Goldman Sachs held an "emergency" meeting with a bunch of crooked honchos. Seems that after better than a year's worth of bad news, they want us to believe that it has just now occurred to them that they need to come up with "a plan." They even tried to use their old contacts at Tim's NY Fed to pry loose some details about the new financial plan, and NOBODY knew a thing. Reminds me of Obama's no leak campaign.

I now think that despite the lack of details from Geitthner, there is a plan, it isn't favorable in the slightest to Wall Street (first piece of evidence last night was this article from the NYTIMES: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/business/12stress.html?_r=1) and it has finally dawned on Wall Street that there will be consequences for their crooked deals that have put the entire economy in peril. Sweet.

Obama is playing his cards close to his vest, probably so that he can sneak up and thwack 'em before they can mobilize and threaten to drag us all down further if we as taxpayers don't play ball. I am betting on Obama.

[KittyWampus]

10. I would love to see your post as its own thread. Yes, Obama and Geithner are playing their cards

close to the vest.

[Jennicut]

9. Honestly the Rethugs will never know what it was like to be treated that way

and I hope they won't. Its wrong. Its not Democracy. No minority party deserved that and Reid should grow balls on other things but in this instance, Dems can show the American People how a real government is supposed to work. Rethugs got a seat at the table. So what if their "ideas" were not listened to? At least they got it, crybabies.