Posted on 09/27/2008 2:50:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Saturday afternoon so as to prevent leaks, as members of Congress and the Bush administration rolled up their sleeves to try to hammer out a compromise bill.
The BlackBerries, with Post-It notes identifying their owners, vibrated away in a small trash can, and later were spread out on a table for later retrieval, as their owners tried to help their bosses resolve the legislative logjam in one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's offices on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol building.
House Republicans, who had not been meaningfully involved in the process until Thursday, when they announced they would not vote for the compromise bill first proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, sent a high-ranking member of their leadership, Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who arrived to the negotiations carrying a tall cup of coffee.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., projected confidence before the meeting, saying, "It would be my hope that this could be resolved today, that we had a day for the American people and members of Congress to review the legislation on the Internet, that we could bring something to the floor possibly Sunday night or Monday morning."
House Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., currently the subject of an Ethics Committee investigation into whether he skirted taxes...
barf!
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“It would be my hope that this could be resolved today, that we had a day for the American people and members of Congress to review the legislation on the Internet, that we could bring something to the floor possibly Sunday night or Monday morning.”
They need more time to decide between socialism and communism.
Man if I was in charge I’d make government so transparent people would walk into walls in the capitol.
Republicans should ‘get out of the way’, step aside, and let the democrats pass the bailout. They conveniently don’t need the republicans for anything else.
The people need to confiscate Congressional seats of many RATS come November.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The masters fear us and so the only thing for them to do is inspire all the fear they can in us. Secrecy and supremacy are inextricably entwined. It has been ever thus.
Nazi Nancy at it again! Where are the FBI indictments for half of the democrat leadership? Surely they know something by now? We do in the blogosphere!!
This meeting should be televised live so there can be total transparency on this whole issue. What is going on today is a disgrace.
Get ready for _another_ weekend surprise.
Ditzy Pelosi is so busy trying to save the planet that she doesn’t realize she can do this bill WITHOUT one Republican vote. If she’s going to save the country, she needs to get to it. Let the ‘RATS do this and they can take all of the credit/blame. I hope they don’t make the House Republicans turn over their testicles next. If they do, we’re probably sunk!
Noooooooo not their crackberry’s !!
Oh the inhumanity !
Flush Congress !
Has anyone checked the suicide rate in the last 24 hours. I think if some of these CEO´s had to face some REAL heat, they would be jumping off of tall buildings.
Had one of those already. Thought that was nasty. Bet this one's worse :(
No jokes about McCain as the inventor of the Blackberry? ABC is slipping....
I’m still walking along the edge of the cliff on this. I hate the guy. Rush has said for years if McCain reaches across the aisle, he touches a Republican.
I want Palin! :(
Isn’t this similar to the old STAR CHAMBER proceedings?
It sure is...........reminds me of the 2000 election,
and the rats trying to manufacture votes behind closed
doors. We stopped them then, we must stop them now!
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