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To: Brilliant
One need only look at that picture to see what the rest of our lifetime would look like.

Because if they ever DO get the power back, the first thing they are going to dismantle is the Electoral College.

And they had to use the flags because the GOP wouldn't let them have a "real" hearing room for that debacle. Har!

From The Hill:

If the Financial Services Committee is the best in the House when it comes to bipartisan comity, then the Judiciary Committee may well be the worst.

In December, ranking Democrat John Conyers (Mich.) began holding “forums” — gatherings with all the trappings of official hearings — after Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) refused to hold hearings on topics Conyers requested. The forums have been held in smaller committee rooms, often with C-SPAN coverage and formal witness lists.

In a sign of how far relationships on the committee have soured, majority staff recently announced a new policy to deny any request from a committee Democrat for the use of a committee hearing room.

Majority spokesman Jeff Lungren said the Republicans have given Democrats three opportunities to make clear that the forums are not official committee business. Nevertheless, Lungren said, in at least one case, members were addressing Conyers as “Mr. Chairman.”

“They were unwilling or unable to make those changes,” Lungren said. “At this point, if they want to hold these forums, they’ll have to find some other place to do it.”

Sean McLaughlin, deputy chief of staff for Sensenbrenner, recently wrote to a minority staffer in more pointed language.

“I’m sitting here watching your ‘forum’ on C-SPAN,” McLaughlin wrote. “Just to let you know, it was your last. Don’t bother asking [for a room] again.”

A committee source said committee Democrats are still planning to hold the forums when they find other available space

35 posted on 05/07/2006 12:35:00 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: Howlin
Because if they ever DO get the power back, the first thing they are going to dismantle is the Electoral College.

exactly - and that would disenfranchise the red states.

>Wake up folks -

That is an issue we need to get out front and center now - wake up the red staters that if they don't vote republican NOW - their votes will be worthless in future elections. The Blue states - big lib cities - will rule our every breath

77 posted on 05/07/2006 3:26:57 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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