Good morning all!
Popping in just briefly. Johnnie - all the best to you and EC - - please tell her hi for me (we used to have some fun discussions here!)
“Also, did I hear Brit mention that the Republicans are going to co-mingle at the SOTU gathering? Tomorrow will have to be a Call your Congressman day for me.”
An article on this on Michelle Malkin’s site: http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/15/bipartisan-seating-at-the-state-of-the-union/
Quotable line from the above article: “Craftsman doesn’t churn out as many tools as Congress.” LOL!
FR thread here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2657020/posts
Hillbuzz has a thread on this, too:
They indicated that so far, no R Congress critter has signed on/agreed to the ‘bipartisan’ seating. Those who signed the letter so far are as follows (per Sister Toldjah) (5 R Senators - of course, Snowe & McCain are included):
Senate signers are as follows: Sen. Begich (D-Alaska), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif), Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Sen. Kristen Gilibrand (D-N.Y.), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Udall for the Democrats and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alska, and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Alaska) for the Republicans. In the House, all nine signers are Democrats.
Best,
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Aw jeez.
This is tantamount to admitting that we must “all get along” or else some nut will start killing people.
Hope the House guys refuse.
Thanks for the data.