Posted on 06/27/2007 10:05:26 AM PDT by Jacksonville Patriot
From a Different Irritated but Fighting Hard GOP Senate Aide [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
The Grand Bargainers are playing "hide the ball." We are not seeing language - they are trying to move this thing through without allowing full review and debate. 373 pages thrown together yesterday - AND AILA, a liberal advocacy group, gets to see it before fellow Republicans? What a slap in the face...
Now - the Grand Bargainers are trying to roll through "tabling votes" to make some attempt to show strength in support of / or in opposition to various amendments to keep their deal "cobbled together."
When we get to cloture tomorrow - any Senator who votes in support of Cloture will be voting in favor of this sham process and against fellow Senators who are trying to shine light on this bill. There is no excuse for votes in favor of this process - it is undemocratic, it is unfair and it tells you everything you need to know about the strength of this bill if light is allowed to shine on it...
06/27 01:00 PM
AND AILA, a liberal advocacy group, gets to see it before fellow Republicans?
AILA???? Maybe “voila?” the FRENCH word for here it is?
What happened to Hatch? Last minute conversion?.
Well, now I see!! So the President wasn’t lying when he said we hadn’t read the bill. Of course he left out the reason we haven’t read the bill is because they hadn’t finished it yet and released it!!!!
And still he’d sign the damn thing!!
As much as I once respected and loved him, I now disrespect and despise him. Quite a feat for that man to pull off.
“the Grand Bargainers are trying to roll through “tabling votes”
“Jew not escared”
Este neck rojo, yo tambien no escared. Los critters gobermento chuld be escared: Dey got a lot of `splainin’ to do. Los cabrons.....
This is not much different that what Reid did a few weeks ago with the last attempt.
Kennedy had the only copy of the 2007 bill, apparently. Reid and Co were using the 2006 bill as prop. Reid was trying to push for the vote (on 2006 as stand-in for 2007). They said they would substitute the 2006 out and insert the 2007 later.
Sessions balked and confronted Reid. Sessions demanded to have a copy of the 2007 text before voting.
Reid had to capitulate and that resulted in delaying the vote for several days.
Kennedy did not release the contents of 2007 until the wee hours of a Saturday. The Heritage Foundation managed to get a rough draft of the 2007 text and post it on the Internet. That was the first anyone outside the Grand Bargain group saw contents of the 2007.
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