RSSDemocrats Freeze Republicans Out Of Committee Room
Carl Andrews | October 21, 2009
The disease is spreading.
At first it was only the members of the White House staff who had a case of the whinies.
It started when Fox News wouldn’t play fair.
Now the same childlike antics have spread to the halls of Congress.
Hey, you Democratic dumbells.
That room doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to the taxpayers of America.
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.
Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.
For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.
Republicans charged that Towns canceled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said…Read the rest of this entry
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