separated at birth???
Posted on 11/16/2007 4:48:28 PM PST by ECM
Harry Reid won’t amount to a polyp on the colon of history.
Billybob is the man!
Senator Reid will keep shooting himself in the foot
Just think of what would be different this year if we didn’t have a congress or senate? Nothing!!
WORK and ELECTED OFFICALS don’t belong in the same world.
separated at birth???
tooo damn funny...
Found this in the Wash Compost:
“Under law, a president can use a recess appointment if the Senate is adjourned more than three days without reconvening on the fourth day. The interim appointments last through the current and next sessions of Congress.
“Congressional rules allow for the Senate to be adjourned for three full days without being considered in recess. Bush cannot use the interim appointments as long as the chamber is opened every fourth day. Reid set a schedule of pro forma sessions on Tuesday and Friday next week, and then on Nov. 27 and Nov. 29.
“The Senate returns Dec. 3 for full legislative sessions and is expected to adjourn a few days before Christmas until mid-January. But Reid is threatening to hold pro forma sessions throughout the holiday season, if necessary, to block recess appointments.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/16/AR2007111601569.html?nav=hcmodule
The Republicans can still call Reid’s bluff, if they have the will and give up their own vacations, which they won’t, sadly.
All they have to do is request a quorum call at each pro-forma session. Within that session, they can start unlimited debate (filibuster) which can only be stopped by a cloture vote, requiring at least 60 of them to come back and vote cloture.
Spineless Republicans won’t do it however, so Dingy will get his way.
The good news is, we won’t get any Julie Myers types being appointed during the recess.
If the Senate will be open through the Thanksgiving break, what’s to prevent the Republicans from showing up and voting on several important issues?
I should have asked you this question: Can the Republicans show up with enough members for a quorum, and pass important legislation?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
No loyalty to America.
And the national rating for Congress dips once again to a new low.
In your scenario, Reid would then go to the bloggers and say, “I tried, but Bush trampled the Constitution and illegally made recess appointment!”...and the bloggers would swallow it, hook, line and sinker.
As usual, Reid doesn’t care what happens - only how it is perceived.
Sorry, but I fail to see what would be accomplished?
There would not be enough present to do any business. Must have a quorum, which they wouldn’t.
Good than there’s still a chance Dusty Harry will choke on a turkey bone.
A quorum is 51. Presumably some democRats would have to remain around to meet Reid's requirement that the Senate cannot be closed over the holidays. If all the democRats left, no one would be around to make a Quorum Call, anyway.
It would ruin their vacations, and make them a litle more reluctant to play such games in the future.
Remember, this will happen again in December, and I don’t think Harry and his boys will like their vacations ruined by having to come back from Walla Walla every four days.
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