Posted on 02/23/2011 2:37:22 PM PST by jazusamo
Democrats have fled state legislatures rather than face up to doing the people’s business. They should change the symbol of their party from the grey donkey to the yellow chicken.
The Democratic Party, unwilling to face tough choices on state budgets, is making a systematic effort to thwart the will of the people. They have taken legislative bodies in Wisconsin and Indiana hostage by denying them a working quorum. Insurgent Democratic lawmakers have fled over the border to find safe haven in Illinois, their equivalent of Pakistan, whence they have issued lists of demands. Similar tactics may be employed in Ohio, Michigan and other states where Democrats face assertive governors trying to clean up the fiscal messes left by their predecessors.
The “disappearing quorum” used to be a staple of congressional behavior in which members would simply not vote or answer a quorum call, thus not officially being recorded as present. This tactic was broken in 1890 when House Speaker Thomas B. Reed, Ohio Republican, simply went ahead with votes when Democrats were on the House floor whether they participated or not. His reasoning was that the Constitution only required representatives be physically present, and since they plainly were, the results of any votes were valid. “Reed’s Rule” was later upheld by the Supreme Court.
Since then, denying quorum has required fleeing the scene. In 1979, a dozen Texas state senators nicknamed the “killer bees” went into hiding over a primary election bill...
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Tea Party v. Flee Party.
Don’t laugh about it. IT WORKED big time.
I believe they are properly known as flee-baggers
Why on earth are they called “progressives”?
They’ve been doing everything they can to stamp out progress for decades!
HOPE AND CHANGE...
WE WON...
LET THE REPUBLICANS SIT IN THE BACK...
THE GOP IS PARTY OF NO...
After an election where 52% of the people in the state of Wisconsin voted for a reformer to come into office along with other state GOP members to reign in out of control government, the DNC “so-called party of the the people” blow town and hide out in another state?
Let’s call them what they are...SORE LOSERS!!!
Unions = Obama’s cadres!
It’s worked temporarily, in the previous cases it’s only delayed the outcome. These Rats may find they’ll lose big time in the long run, taxpayers are about taxed out and these goons want to take more.
The Fleebaggers should realize that Elections Have Consequences.
They lost. They need to get over and get with the program, or risk being left behind by the judgement of history...
Help me out folks. Remind me was it that said something almost exactly like that two years ago?
You're right and the 2012 election is going to tell the tale, hopefully they've gone too far for the majority to stomach.
Liberalism is a lie, and everything about is a lie.
As Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman:
every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
It's worth noting that McCarthy and Hellman were both leftists, but Hellman was a far-left nutcase, like Francis Fox Piven or Rachel Corrie. McCarthy was more of an old-fashioned idealist.
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