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Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War
Washington Post ^ | 06/17/2005 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 06/17/2005 6:02:33 AM PDT by jhouston

In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official. more...

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; britishmemo; conyers; downing; memo; milbank
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Startling article from the WP
1 posted on 06/17/2005 6:02:34 AM PDT by jhouston
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To: jhouston

So where do they go after the GOP kicks them out of the copier room?


2 posted on 06/17/2005 6:04:34 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: jhouston; SJackson
The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."

3 posted on 06/17/2005 6:06:28 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: jhouston

Sunset Boulevard. With Pelosi as Norma Desmond, Bernie Sanders as Max, and Nadler as the crowd. The only way to lure them out of the basement is with a camera and lights. They'll have to fight Schumer, though. Tough times to go insane.


4 posted on 06/17/2005 6:12:12 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: jhouston
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) banged a large wooden gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him "Mr. Chairman." He liked that so much that he started calling himself "the chairman" and spouted other chairmanly phrases, such as "unanimous consent" and "without objection so ordered." The dress-up game looked realistic enough on C-SPAN, so two dozen more Democrats came downstairs to play along.

These people get payed to do this crap?

5 posted on 06/17/2005 6:13:28 AM PDT by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: jhouston

Is it me? Is it Friday? Or, is that headline just alittle bit lascivious?


6 posted on 06/17/2005 6:15:28 AM PDT by Young Werther
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To: jhouston

The land of make believe. LOL

Conyers got his fellow nutjobs to call him Mr. Chairman.

The left is delusional.


7 posted on 06/17/2005 6:15:38 AM PDT by Peach
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To: gopwinsin04

The Broom Closet.


8 posted on 06/17/2005 6:18:49 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: michigander
These people get payed to do this crap?

YES!!! We're paying them.
9 posted on 06/17/2005 6:20:42 AM PDT by ReeWalker (Life isn't fair...GET USED TO IT!!!)
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High Comedy:

Conyers's firm hand on the gavel could not prevent something of a free-for-all; at one point, a former State Department worker rose from the audience to propose criminal charges against Bush officials. Early in the hearing, somebody accidentally turned off the lights; later, a witness knocked down a flag. Matters were even worse at Democratic headquarters, where the C-SPAN feed ended after just an hour, causing the activists to groan and one to shout "Conspiracy!"


10 posted on 06/17/2005 6:21:45 AM PDT by alnick (Rice 2005: We've only just begun to see what Freedom can achieve.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Too funny.


11 posted on 06/17/2005 6:27:10 AM PDT by FairfaxVA (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
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To: massgopguy

I need my stapler. It's a red swingline.


12 posted on 06/17/2005 6:28:55 AM PDT by johnb838 (In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.)
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To: Peach

Ahhh, the land of make believe. Where 911 never happened and everybody wants gay marraige. This land of make believe I have seen in movies and TV as well, in things like "Bullsworth", "The Contender", and "West Wing". These are places where liberal policies actaully work.


13 posted on 06/17/2005 6:35:12 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: KC_Conspirator

LOL.

And yet there have been several articles in our local paper that people don't think actors are good role models and that G rated movies fare better (financially) than more adult themed movies.

But Hollyweird has an agenda and we're all supposed to buy into their garbage.


14 posted on 06/17/2005 6:36:47 AM PDT by Peach
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To: jhouston

This is what happens when you leave rabid Dems unsupervised. Even the WAPO is embarrassed.

And, of course, it results in attacks on Israel. I realize the number of Jews (orthodox) leaving the Democrats is growing, but it should be higher across the board. Time they realized anti-semitism is alive and thriving in the hearts of their representation in Washington.


15 posted on 06/17/2005 6:58:51 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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16 posted on 06/17/2005 7:27:52 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: jhouston
Startling article from the WP

IMHO, there's nothing startling about this. It's just a bunch of treasonous RAT bastards playing make believe on our dime. Nothing startling about that. They do this constantly. Durbin for example.

17 posted on 06/17/2005 7:30:16 AM PDT by upchuck (If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: jhouston
I've said it before, I'll say it again:

The Democrats are the party of treason.

Once we acknowledge that simple fact, the easier it is to defeat them utterly. Until the other major party comes RIGHT OUT AND SAYS IT they will always be nothing more than spineless cowards.

18 posted on 06/17/2005 7:37:59 AM PDT by Bombardier (Ex-Republican, now registered Constitution Party.)
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To: jhouston

Maybe we can get an artist to paint a picture of all these guys bent over the table being sodimixexed by terrorists. I mean art is art isn't it aren't they servicing the terrorists?


19 posted on 06/17/2005 7:53:49 AM PDT by Americanexpat (A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
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To: SJackson

See #3.


20 posted on 06/17/2005 7:57:54 AM PDT by Howlin
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