Florida Republican fumes at not having a chair in meeting, leads walk out

[133724]

A Florida Republican, who is the ranking minority member of the Transportation Committee in the House of Representatives, stormed out of a meeting last week, leading other Republican members with him. An article today in Roll Call reports that he was angry because he was not seated properly during an orientation session.

Ben Pershing writes in this morning's "Heard on the Hill" column that Rep. John Mica was not seated at the head of the room with the committee's Democratic chairman James Oberstar (D-MN) and two guests during the meeting. Instead, he was offered a seat in the audience section set up in the room. The gathered representatives and their staffs were to hear basic introductory information about the committee's work and remarks by former U.S. Ambassador Felix Rohatyn and ex-Transportation Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.).

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Florida_Republican_fumes_at_not_having_0125.html

get your own G* D* chair....& quit sitting on your butt like you have for the last 6 years.....

[hobbit709]

1. Don't let the doorknob hit ya

where the good lord split ya:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[babylonsister]

2. Boo hoo. Get over it! nt

[n2doc]

3. Call the Waaahbulance! n/t

[tanyev]

4. Luke 14: 7-11

7 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 8 "When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

[n2doc]

7. oh heck, he never reads that sissy new testament stuff!

Unless it is Revelations, and that one is easy to find....

[Cobalt Violet]

5. Maybe we can take up collection and send him some Pampers.

He sounds like he may need them.

[Bunny]

6. Maybe we should remind him of the time when the Dems were made

to conduct meetings/hearings in a basement room.

Cry me a river, asshole. :nopity:

[curiousdemo]

8. LOSERS!!!!!!

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[JNelson6563]

9. According to Pat Schroeder

who served in the House for 20+ years, when she first went to Congress she and an African American rep. had to share a chair for many meetings for a committee she was on. The R's didn't have a problem with it (or any of the white men for that matter, apparently).

Funny how it's different now, eh?

Julie

[maxrandb]

10. Maybe if the ass-pickle stops using the term "Democrat Party"

and starts using "Democratic Party", we could find him a chair.

I've made the suggestion, but I'm sure the Dems won't do it. Everytime one of the wingnuts uses the term "Democrat Party", the Dems should take away 20 square feet of office space and one staffer. They'd either stop, or they'd be in a broom closet.

[AnneD]

11. The only reason they continue to do it

is because we make it an issue. Ignore it-it looks childish to the main stream. Since they like to play word games, instead of calling the inheritance tax the death tax-call it the Paris Hilton tax. WE need to be more creative.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. If you didn't like being called "annabanana", and someone called you that instead of

"Anne", you corrected them and told them you didn't like the nickname, and that other person insisted on calling you "annabanana" in front of all your friends and family and coworkers every time they saw you, do you think simply ignoring them would be the best response, and accepting that nickname? :shrug:

[AnneD]

15. Actually....

I have had folks make fun of my name endlessly. At first I corrected them, which made it worse. Then I laughed at them and said they were pretty pathetic if that was all they could come up with, gave the leader a sharp barb, and ignore any other feeble attempts to goad me. Once they saw it wouldn't work, they gave up. I recommend the book 1001 Insults. If they really press you, give them a barb that illustrates their stupidity and move on.

It works...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Republicans will NOT give up calling Democrats the "Democrat Party" if ignored.

It essentially HAS been ignored by elected Dems in recent times, and this has simply caused them to institutionalize this usage, to the point where it's starting to be used by news anchors and the like, through the "creep" effect.

It's in large part a bullying control mechanism. If I can call you a name, or muss your hair, every time I walk by you, and you don't say or do anything, I'm asserting dominance over you, and you are accepting it.

I think it's perfectly legitimate to point out "you're acting like a grammar school asshole". In fact, even the Joe Scarborough type pundits are starting to call attention to this, such as Joe and others did in Bush's use of "Democrat majority" in the SOTU.

It's having a bright floodlight shown onto the assholery of your deeds that will eventually cause people to back off.

On this issue you and I totally disagree, and I guess there ends the debate.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Ignoring it treats it as fact and truth. It's a "key control mechanism"

which Newt Gingrich gets a lot of credit for. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1276

I'm thrilled to hear people calling them out on it during interviews and such.

[frylock]

18. that worked so well for kerry in 2004..

remember when he ignoreed the shrimpboaters and they just went away?

[AnneD]

20. It is one thing in dealing with semantics (words)....

It is another thing to totally lie about events and rewrite history. In that event Kerry should have denounced quickly in a court of law and shown the light of truth on their lies.

An example,
I get called a Jew, and maybe a few other words. I correct the person (in a public way)and that ends it for me. But if someone pursues the matter further and says the Holocaust never happens...then I take his bigoted butt to court and win satisfaction.

Maybe life has made my skin tough but I place more value getting the facts straight. Believe me, I have returned some doosys in my time that have stopped these folks in their tracks and made them look like the small and petty people they are. In college, I waitressed the graveyard shift-the one with the smart assed drunks. I learned how to verbally take care of my self.

In some of the arguments, I see the DEM's trying to win the semantics's war but loosing the factual battle. Why tie yourself in knots over this small point, and watch them walk off with a stolen election. I'll continue to focus my energies in a more productive manner.

[TlalocW]

12. So I'm guessing that after they left

The democrats got even more done than what they would have had the republicans stayed? I'm not seeing a downside here - republican feelings hurt and more productivity.

TlalocW

[Marr]

17. Hey- we should fuck with all their seating if it makes them leave the meeting.

There's an effective protest: give up your voice for pride's sake. What a dumb ass.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Primadonna much?

you're a public servant, not the frickin Pope, get over yourself already.