Whining House GOPers trying to push a "Minority Bill of Rights" !

[RiverStone]

Gimma a break! What do these rethugs think was happening the past 12 years in the house? Now that they have lost their seat of power, guess they are afraid of getting spanked. :spank:

Damn straight. Get used to it pukes.

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TPM
1/2/07

Republicans aren't yet an official minority in the House, but they're already beginning a campaign to portray themselves as victims of a heartless Democratic majority.

In a "Dear Colleague" letter circulated to fellow Republicans, three House GOPers are trying to push a "Minority Bill of Rights" -- based on a two-year-old proposal by then-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). You can read the letter here:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/gop-minority/

Unfortunately, as you are well aware, the Democrats' forty-year reign over the House was plagued by consistent, systematic efforts to usurp the rights and privileges of the Republican minority," write Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Tom Price (R-GA).

They don't mention their party's own strongarm tactics -- which is striking, given that since 2002 Cantor himself was a member of the House GOP leadership, which was known for ruthlessly engineering legislative victories. "eveling in the power they have, are using techniques to jam bills through even when they don't have to . . . simply because they can," is how congressional expert Norman Ornstein characterized the GOP's screw-the-minority tactics from 1994 to the present, according to a 2004 Washington Post article.

Republicans "have taken every one of the techniques that Democrats employed when they were in the majority, and ratcheted them up to another level," said the American Enterprise Institute scholar.

An ironic case in point: When Pelosi made her proposal to protect Democrats in 2004, GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert (IL) refused to entertain the idea, let alone reply to her correspondence.

One can only assume that McHenry, Cantor and Price are hoping for a more sympathetic audience with Pelosi than the one she received then.

link:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002257.php

[JohnLocke]

1. Ugh. Quite the trio.

Especially Patrick McHenry.

:nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity:

[LynneSin]

2. Pathetic doesn't even begin to describe Republicans

We democrats dealt with it for six years, they need to get over it or they'll be further into the minority come 2008

I'm reading their 3 points about the rights of the minority and yet in the six years repukes were in charge they were very well notorious and very well documented about inserting last minute items into bills, bait & switch bills and even moving the committee meetings without notifying the democrats where the meeting was located.

Personally, I think a law like this is needed because god forbid if republicans are in charge again we need to stop this kind of behavior

[bullimiami]

3. its hard to have any sympathy for them or believe anything they say

since they acted like such total imperial assholes while they controlled the house.

i cant imagine todays democrats treating them with such low regard.
i think its just more disingenuous posturing.

[Double T]

4. In congress, minority politicos have NO rights...........

the rethugs better get used to it, they're not coming back for a long, long, long time.......maybe EVER!!!

[RiverStone]

6. I'd love to think...

...that my two teenage kids will NEVER know what it's like to have the rethugs control Congress.

I share your optimism.

Thanks :)

[derby378]

5. Doug & The Slugs

Too bad that you had to get caught
That's not like you to lose face
So sad that you're not as smart
As you thought you were in the first place

:evilgrin:

[NashVegas]

13. Would You Take Another Look At Me ...

If I was dangerous?

[billybob537]

7. WHAAAAAA

The time to pass a minority bill of rights was when you were the malority. TFB stupid ass kisssing morons ESAD.

[The Count]

8. Preemptive bitching...how so very GOP!

[RiverStone]

9. Pre, post, and actually on the day we take power - 1/4/07

...we can look forward to rethug bitching.

[LiberalEsto]

10. They can dish it out

but they sure as hell can't take it.

:evilgrin:

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Better call one of these.

[verse18]

12. Sucks to be a minority, don't it?

:rofl:

[dogday]

14. We need to put them in their place

this let's extend a hand shit is for the birds...

[LittleClarkie]

15. What was it they kept saying to us though the conservative pundits

like Rush and Hannity?

Oh yeah.

Elections have consequences.

They had their chance and fucked it up. Sucks to be them.

[zbdent]

16. When a Repuke whines about "minority rights" ...

Nancy Pelosi should go "Let's go to the videotape!" and play the video of Repukes sneering and downplaying the Dems' statements as "whiny sore loser talk" ...

[RiverStone]

25. Good idea!

Let's hope Nancy's not going to be too nice. The people mandated a change last November; the DEMS owe it to their constituents to be assertive and not cow-tow to rethug "poor me" whines. It has nothing to do with fairness - the rethugs simply are trying to leverage what ever power they can. Its ALL about power - and they don't get it!

[ck4829]

17. They want the same rights they have denied us since 1994?

I don't think so.

[3121guitarist]

18. How much f'ing gall do these slags have?

All those years where they kept Democrats out of even simple decisions. Give me a break. As Mike Malloy says, God, I hate these people.

[karlrschneider]

19. Well, you can't really blame them for grasping at straws

The only difference between a Baby Ruth and a turd is how many times it's been recycled. :D

[onethatcares]

20. on other boards I'm already reading about how

the Democratic party was obstructionist during the past 6 years and wouldn't let the puke party pass the important legislation they felt necessary. What a bunch of bushitt./

[TahitiNut]

21. "efforts to usurp the rights and privileges of the Republican minority" ...

... and sap their vital juices, too. :rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Not even embarassed to whine BEFORE the Democratic Congress even takes office.

[Earth_First]

23. I'll give you your Bill of Rights when we get ours back!

First thing on the table: Free Speech Zones.

[NC_Nurse]

24. Go whine to Delay and the K street

criminals who set the precedent of strongarming and steamrolling. You didn't have much to say THEN, did you losers?

I didn't think so.