Posted on 01/23/2011 6:36:12 AM PST by chickadee
Dozens of lawmakers are getting a second dose of high school as they venture across the aisle and ask colleagues to sit with them for President Obama’s State of the Union address next week.
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The bipartisan gesture carries a serious tone for nearly all who have pledged to do away with the typical seating arrangement, which is not assigned but generally gets divided by party. But the humor of asking one of their fellow lawmakers to attend the event as their “date” has not escaped members.
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Will they give each other backrubs?
Somebody is going to get stuck with Barney Frank as their “seat buddy”.
Are they really going to do this? I thought the R’s had decided not to?
But levity may be had, at least in one section of the House. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is planning to sit with her fellow members of the Congressional Women’s Softball Team, such as Republican Reps. Shelley Moore-Capito (W.V.), Jean Schmidt (Ohio) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.).Would that be something new? (cough)
Next thing you know it'll be 2004 again, with "Power Sharing" - which only benefits the Dems, of course...
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I hadn’t heard that. Do you have a link to a story about that?
A purely political Dem tactic to hide the results of 11/2/10 and many in the GOP are still determined to keep their ownership of “The Stupid Party.”
Apparently, weak sisters like Coburn are more interested in playing buddy=buddy with the enemy than drawing a line in the sand and standing strong against the ObaMarxist agenda. Somehow, the idea of a medical doctor sitting side by side and playing handsies with an abortionist like Schumer is particularly repugnant.
Apparently, we need to remind the Repubs that the last election was about fighting the Dems — not cohabitating with them.
ML/NJ
“Prez gets shoved to the back burner. “
Yes, they might do news management that way. Might work, too, to get people’s attention somewhere else.
Maybe he’ll be attacked by a rabbit? That would distract people for a week or so.
*** High School redux. ***
Right down to the part where they are making the freshmen in Congress go down early to “save” their seats.
What makes all of this even more sickening is that Obama is most surely going to go into some rant on the virtues of homosexuality being he considers the repeal of DADT a sucess for his administration.
Then of course the MSM can pan around to each Congress person and their date to see their reactions.
This entire idea is sickening. The republicans are idiots for going along with this.
The story was about Obama resurecting an old speech for a good look at the SUTU and the R's weren't going to go along with it. Guess I didn't hear correctly...
Starting 24 hours before the event, every republican shall be placed on a diet restricted to beans, beer, cabbage, boiled eggs, and chocolate milk.
Reach arounds
I’ve got an idea. Why don’t they share committee chairmanships with the Dems like the Senate did a few years ago. That really worked out well.
Where, where, IS Republican spine? Enough, enough. ..Stop The Madness of Dem PC Machiavellian machinations.
Message to those who supported this arrangement: Stand UP/Grow Up and do what you were elected to do!
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