The House Walk Out

National Review Online -- the Corner ^ | February 14, 2008 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[JewishRighter]

Must be some kind of photoshop, video thing where they make it look like the Republican congressional delegation finally grew a pair.

[dbacks]

[We are not going to sit here & listen to you bad mouth the Untited States of America!]

From my observations, I think the US is pretty well ‘tited’!

[JewishRighter]

Now, the home-run MSM question of the day: will they run that video on any major news broadcast in the next 24 hours.

I’ll give you all 3 guesses.

[Constitution Day]

Heh! Good one.

[EDINVA]

When they’re in the majority a walkout isn’t necessary; the majority calls the shots (for good or ill). It’s only effective when it’s done rarely and over a serious issue.

[BigEdLB]

Of course they voted on those “Contempt citations” without most of the GOP there. One “GOP” who remained and voted FOR the contempt citation : Ron Paul.

[what's up]

In the old days the Repubs would be depicted all over the place as childish over this tactic.

The weakness of Pelosi and Reid are now seen in that this tactic is now going to work.

[KC_Conspirator]

Good for them! No wonder the democrats have the lowest rating in history. They are hauling people into congress on fraudulent contempt charges instead of doing real work.

[skeeter]

The MSM will be all over this one...

(Must I add the tag?)

[aomagrat]

Congress does not have time to address FISA. They are too busy with more important things, like steriod use in baseball.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

I’ll be looking forward to seeing this as a headliner on FoxNews Special Report. Elsewhere, I’m sure it will be ignored.... Actually, now that I think about it, I think the mainstreams will run it because this will be there way or demonstrating “we’re not biased” — and it’s “too good TV” to ignore. JMHO.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

We are not going to sit here & listen to you bad mouth the Untited States of America!

No, just like we did not sit around and do nothing when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!

[Carry_Okie]

No, just like we did not sit around and do nothing when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!

Huh? Germans? Wha?

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Huh? Germans? Wha?

See Bluto, Animal House. Guess you had to be there.

[blam]

"No, just like we did not sit around and do nothing when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!

Hmmmm. (Japanese, Japanese)

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: The Democrats once again bit the dust on the FISA bill yesterday, which contained a clause granting immunity to the telephone companies, telecommunications companies which provided data to the president for its warrantless wiretap searching program. Now, yesterday was an opportunity because of the Potomac primary, the vote was yesterday in the Senate, and we have three senators running for the presidency. We have Senator McCain, we have Senator Obama, and we have Senator Hillary. It would have been very easy for all three to take a couple minutes off the campaign, head over to Capitol Hill, cast your vote on the very serious issue of American security. Two of the three did so. Kudos to Senator McCain. He made sure he was there while fighting off this pesky challenge from Governor Huckabee. He voted to preserve the powers of the intelligence agency in the executive branch to defend and protect this country.

Also, hats off to Senator Obama. He showed up. He voted. He voted against it. In so doing, he demonstrated he is not fit to lead this country as commander-in-chief. He has voted against every reasonable authority that has come before him in the form of legislation in terms of intelligence and protecting this country. But at least Obama showed up. At least he voted. At least he told the country he's incompetent. Mrs. Clinton did not show up. And, remember, as my friend Andy McCarthy at National Review Online points out, Mrs. Clinton had a whole lot to say way back when about Obama's "present" votes in Illinois, correct? And here she doesn't even show up to vote on the intelligence bill yesterday, the FISA bill. It was a very important set of votes, perhaps as important a set of votes as there had been since she's been in the Senate. They involved issues that go to the core of her fitness to be president, and she decided she had better things to do than her job. She was in Texas, or at least en route to Texas to make a speech last night, in which she totally ignored what had happened in the Potomac primary, did not mention Obama, did not mention the vote, just ignored it. It didn't happen. Same way she dealt with the scandals inside the White House.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Boy, you guys need to dust off the old Animal House DVD...

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Please see Post 34.

[Califreak]

>Good for them! No wonder the democrats have the lowest rating in history. They are hauling people into congress on fraudulent contempt charges instead of doing real work.<

Another poster yesterday was thankful they were wasting time on steroids instead of really screwing up the more important matters they should be attending to. LOL!

[xtinct]

Hope Congressman Boehner gets this issue on TV in Ohio... He needs to spell out succinctly that the Democrats including Clinton and Obama do NOT find it necessary to protect the American people.

Texas, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island Republicans need to be interviewed on TV about this issue too.