Posted on 08/01/2008 4:56:11 PM PDT by Trueblackman
Freepers and other bloggers should be proud as we the members of the new media were able to get the early skinny on Nancy Pelosi shutting down the House and turning out the lights on a GOP Sponsored Drilling Bill. If not for the efforts of Freerepublic and other new media sites, Democrats would have gotten away with this mockery today.
I got a call from Kristinn at 3 pm today and headed for the Hill, I arrived a bit after 3:30 and meet the staffers for 3 GOP Congressional Member, who gave me a quick SITREP.
This is what I was told, "That Congressional Members were allowed to offer bills up for vote before the House concluded its business and when the Democrat Leadership found out that the Republican Minority was going to offer up a bill to allow drilling, Nancy Pelosi then and there decided quickly to adjourn all business in the House." When Republican Leaders protested, the Speaker and Democrats leaders ordered power to the House Floor shut off, which in turn shut off C-SPAN as well.
I was also told that Capitol Hill Police were order to shut down the House Gallery as other members of the new media were making their way to Capitol Hill with cameras and other recording devices. A member of the Capitol Hill Police Force informed me that the Speaker's Office had ordered them to clear the floor of the House no later than 4:30.
Several Congressional Staffers tried to get me to the floor of the House only to be blocked or have their request deflected by House Employees.
During my more than hour and a half on the hill, I was able to visit several offices and you guys kept the phones ringing off the hook!!!
Speaking with one Congressional Chief of Staff, I was informed that the GOP has more than enough votes in the House to pass a drilling bill as some of the Blue Dog Democrats are feeling the heat back home in their districts and the price of gas is becoming a campaign issue in many races.
Nancy Pelsoi can claim honest and open government in the House, but much like Hugo Chavez if she thinks she is going to lose on an issue, then she turns out the lights!
Should this President show some guts and call Congress back,
I guarantee you that the MSM will be forced to cover it.
This President has an opportunity to show the American people he’s on their side and score political points at the same time.
If not, this whole event will be forgotten by next week...poof...like it never happened.
Video on post #15.
Wow you were in the middle of the action. Way to go! So what did the Blue Dog Democrats feel about this stunt? If I were them, I would be pissed off.
Thanks Trueblackman. We can hope Pelosi as well as Reid’s days are numbered.
Can the people demand they come back. They are in school you know.
A big protest march wouldn't hurt either.
Kevin I just read your report. Thank you! Just turned on WMAL- may be too late to catch you on the show.
Is there any talk up there about the possibility of the president calling Congress back from vacation?
We can do a weekend SURGE if necessary:)
Thanks for the inside scoop True!
Ive called her Nancy Chavez since her treasonous trip to visit Chavez last year...
“So now what? Where do we go from here? I feel like I got sucker punched. Sorry but, why did they close up shop just in time to make it for dinner?
Seems like another case of the Republicans looking at a gift horse in the mouth and then shoving a sock in it.
Call me jaded, but i think they rolled over.
Show me where I am wrong.”
I’m with you.
I had a brief moment of excitement and hope (and Obama was NOWHERE in the vicinity!)
Only to realize - they are politicians afterall.
And we do have a president who insists on referring to the Saudis as “our friends.”
And I often wonder if maybe politicians on both sides have a little stash available to them compliments of the saudis.
(Thanks for posting, TBM...)
AWESOME!!!!
BTTT!
BTTT!
BTTT!
Georgia’s Rep. Tom Price is one stand up guy! (Just a plug for one of the leaders of this move.)
Thank you, sir! I knew the DC Chapter wouldn’t let us down.
Kevin
Nice piece of reporting on WMAL’s Austin Hill show.
What we are watching now is the foretaste of what is in store if the Dem party controls all three branches of the gov.
Most disturbing of all is the action of the US Capitol Police in this matter. Their charter is to protect both houses of the Congress and their members.
To see them mobilized at the whim of the hormone crazed House Majority leader leads one to believe that the USCP has become the sword and shield of the Democrat party.
Concerned citizens should contact:
Office of Inspector General
Email Contact - OIG@cap-police.senate.gov
HOTLINE - Toll Free 1-866-906-2446
Office of Inspector General
Carl W. Hoecker, Inspector General
Office of Audits
Office of Investigations
How to Report Fraud Waste and Abuse
Office of Inspector General Mission
Under Public Law 109-55, August 2, 2005, Congress established the United States Capitol Police Office of Inspector General (OIG). The Inspector General (IG) reports directly to the United States Capitol Police Board, and heads OIG. The OIG supervises and conducts audits, inspections, and investigations involving USCP programs, functions, systems, or operations.
Telephone calls to your congress critters and the White House are also in order.
Pelosi could break all 10 commandments on live TV and still get reelected by a large margin.
True, our major cities are cesspools of socialism and they hold a majority over the rest of the state.
We should create "Rent-A-Commie-Leader" for countries fed-up with capitalism and needing a thoroughbred Marxist with the breeding and bloodlines of the type only our fair cities can produce.
No longer would these third world, hellhole, countries have to endure second-tier communists- we could send them our best and brightest. Our communists have law degrees and sh*t like that. But, we'd have to charge a fee (being capitalists and all) to cover the cost of raising these parasites.
Could someone (anyone) explain for me how a country founded on liberty and freedom could become the bastion of communist nurseries? I mean, we even have one running for president, for crying out loud. Has America no defense against democracy gone bad? Are there no rules to this game? (Uh, courts, uh, McFly!)
My guess is: that with freedom came the right to be stupid. And all too many have taken advantage of it.
Fantastic .. thank you for going to the scene
and reporting in, Kevin !!
This was an awesome, stirring, exciting,
inspiring and hopefully rino spine growing,
day ... may there be many more.
Thank you, kristinn .. our trusty man at
the switch.
We’re so proud of you. DC freepers rule!
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