WTF? The GOP can shut down every hearing? What kind of bullsh!t maneuveur is this???

[Pryderi]

Can't the dems just say, "tough shit, this hearing was scheduled and we're holding it with or without you stupid fucks".

[virgogal]

1. I have no idea what you are talking about.

[gateley]

6. There were some hearings scheduled and the Repubs wouldn't let the Dems

who were supposed to participate leave the Floor.

Really immature.

I'll see if I can find a link -- or better yet, a vid of Claire McCaskill giving them hell "we're paid to WORK!"

[virgogal]

9. Thanks.

[Pryderi]

7. see link below: I guess Either party in the Senate is allowed to object to holding hearings

Senate GOP shuts down hearings
By: Meredith Shiner
March 24, 2010 06:37 PM EDT
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=9251AB84-18FE-70B2-A84903DB714BCCE5

Democratic senators ripped their Republican counterparts for forcing cancellations of hearings throughout the Senate on Wednesday, claiming that the GOP is needlessly blocking essential national security business.

Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. Claire McCaskill both complained that Republicans kept them from holding their hearings on budget requests for the military's Pacific and strategic and police training contracts in Afghanistan.

Either party in the Senate is allowed to object to holding hearings, as Senate rules require a unanimous consent request for hearings to be held after 2 p.m. Most of these unanimous consent requests aren’t even noticed on any given day, but Republicans have been objecting to these requests, essentially shutting down committee work.

[virgogal]

10. Thank you.

[Canuckistanian]

12. The Senate Armed Services Committee

A hearing was shut down becuase some childish GOP senators refused to show up.

[virgogal]

16. Thanks. It's all quite wearing,isn't it?

[Canuckistanian]

18. They really give drama queens a bad name

:eyes:

[lazarus]

2. I seem to remember

their locking us out of committee hearings back in the bad old days.

[depakid]

4. Yep- however, don't expect much of a quid pro quo

the Dems wouldn't even dare to use reconciliation until the painted themselves into a nasty corner.

[harkadog]

5. I believe that was the House committee's not the Senate. Different rules.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. That's what I would do unless it's against the laws of congress.

They should video the questions they need of those who came to testify and let the Republicans sulk.

[laughingliberal]

8. I believe it comes under another of those rules of the Senate like the filibuster. nt

[laughingliberal]

11. Will probably backfire on them the same as when Newt shut down the government. nt

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. If the GOP are just going to be whiny little bitches, the "comity" rules should be ditched.

They are just being abused by the GOP.

[DemoTex]

14. Not unlike the federal government shutdown in 1995 by Gingrich.

Petulance then. Petulance now. Well, a bit of pickled-egg/Heineken flatulence thrown in by the 2010 Class of NO!

[WeDidIt]

15. They're having a poutrage

And yes, that's the word to use with it.

[harun]

19. That word sums it up well. They'll get over it after their timeout.

[Pryderi]

17. Hey. Neither myself nor my co-workers want to work after 2pm either. I'm sure my corporate masters

wouldn't have a problem with that.

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. Start working at 5 AM and hold hearings before 2 pm

Once the crybabies start having to wake up early and go to work, they will cave.