Posted on 12/15/2010 11:09:28 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Robert Gibbs Is Very Angry Senate Will Read Legislation Before Voting On It 1:07 PM, Dec 15, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is angry that Senator Jim DeMint is going to require a Senate clerk to spend 12 whole hours reading the START arms deal aloud before senators vote on it. Says Obama's spokesman in a statement:
This is a new low in putting political stunts ahead of our national security, and it is exactly the kind of Washington game-playing that the American people are sick of. While some express concern that the Senate doesn’t have time to debate the Treaty, Senator DeMint wants to waste 12 hours to read the text of a treaty that has been available to every member of the Senate and the public for more than eight months. This Treaty has been the subject of nearly 20 Senate hearings and 1,000 questions, and is supported by President George H.W. Bush, every living Republican Secretary of State, our NATO allies, and the military leadership of the United States of America. Every minute that the START Treaty is being read on the Senate floor increases the time that we lack verification of Russia’s nuclear arsenal. It is the height of hypocrisy to complain that there is not enough time to consider this Treaty, while wasting so much time reading aloud a document that was submitted to the Senate months ago.
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If it's so blooming important, Gibbs, why didn't your pal take care of it months ago?
hahhahahahaha.... popcorn time!
This is vey series.
Why wasnt this done with healthcare bill?
go get a real job jack butt
NOT YOU Sub-Drive...I meant Gibbs who does NOTHING significant.
The US/Russian nuclear arsenals are stable at the moment, without a whole bunch of immediate tension threatening a blowup. Pakistan, Iran and N Korea are a different story.
I don’t see why the hurry up to jam this through in a lame duck session, unless there’s something really stenchy that will further weaken us that the O-ministration wants done right away.
I wish someone would give Chief Propaganda Minister Gibbs a good old fashioned a$$ whoopin’.
Bobby and Barry, if you hadn’t lied to us so much already, we might not be so skeptical.
Even if every stinkin' bill still passes, there will be fewer of them cranked through the sausage factory in DC.
ALL bills should not only be read, they should be POSTED so that the American people can read it for themselves.
Post the Bills CONgress is voting on, LONG before the vote!!!!
You are right, hats the sole intent, to foist something foul on America.
Fibbs should just resign...now!
So the lame-duck press secretary is angry at the lame-duck senate?
It’s pretty much guaranteed that I’m pleased by *anything* that pisses this guy off.
Here's a response to Gibbs from Jim DeMint's spokesman Wesley Denton:
Americans didn’t vote in November to ram through Obama’s agenda in December. Congress should do what’s necessary, stop tax increases and fund the government with a continuing resolution, and then wait for other important debates until the leaders Americans just elected are seated. This is a desperate last-minute rush by politicians thrown out of office to ram through deficit spending, pork-barrel earmarks, and a treaty that could weaken national security on their way out the door. Senator DeMint has made it clear that he's going to use every tool available to stop the controversial START Treaty from being rammed through during the lame duck session, so that the senators Americans elected have a chance to review it next Congress. Additionally, the Obama administration has not been cooperative in providing the necessary documents to debate the treaty, as they have continually refused to share the negotiating records even after it was revealed they held undisclosed talks with Russians over missile defense.
Emphasis mine. And right on, Sen. DeMint. At least somebody heard us!
Meanwhile, Zero continues to try BSing America. What a shock!
Well, Robert. Do you not think that it is a good idea for our lawmakers to actually take the time to read and think about all legislation? I am sick and tired of have thousands of pages of new laws that most lawmakers have yet to read. Is it not irresponsible to govern in that manner?
What country are you emulating with that kind of dictatorial process?
Bernie Sanders is a HERO and having read what is actually going to be is a STUNT.
READ THE ENTIRE BILL.
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