Interesting series of headlines from Drudge:
- Dem leadership pulls DC voting bill from floor; conservative Dems were supporting DC gun repeal…
- Leader Hoyer seen yelling at staff on floor…
- Speaker Pelosi absent because she is desperately searching for Iraq supplemental votes…
- Holmes-Norton standing silently in disbelief…
From RedState:
The unflappable Steny Hoyer was seen/heard yelling at staff on the floor of the House. Pelosi, according to our source, wasn’t even on the floor. Presumably she was cloistered somewhere with John Murtha thinking up new ways to ensure our defeat in Iraq. Poor Eleanor Holmes-Norton was seen standing silently. We don’t know what she was thinking but we can guess we couldn’t print it on a family website.
This is one of the best quotes of the year thus far (from Extreme Mortman):
Hoyer seen yelling at staff…
Eleanor Holmes Norton in a daze of disbelief…
Pelosi missing in action while trying to round up votes for the supplemental.
Tension is building.
As far as schadenfreude goes, this is pretty good stuff. I think a lot of Americans are starting to realize since the 2006 elections that Yes, things could be worse.
Cool- democracy- where the opinions of the party’s representatives actually matter. We missed you!
It’s refreshing to see actual ideas and debate coming from Capital Hill rather than outsourcing all the thinkin’ to the White House.
Incidentally, look at what you quoted from Red State. Once you take out all of the speculation this is what you are left with:
The unflappableSteny Hoyer was seen/heard yelling at staff on the floor of the House. Pelosi, according to our source, wasn’t even on the floor.Presumably she was cloistered somewhere with John Murtha thinking up new ways to ensure our defeat in Iraq. PoorEleanor Holmes-Norton was seen standing silently.We don’t know what she was thinking but we can guess we couldn’t print it on a family website.I guess I’d better avoid standing silently if I want to avoid giving a bad impression.
Preston, if you consider adding “pork ” spending projects to members’ districts in an effort to “buy ” their vote on the supplemental war funding bill, i.e.”the cut run and surrender”bill. If you consider that as debate, maybe you should go read the definition of that word one more time.
Preston, are you really proud that Murtha is saying that his bills are designed to ’slow bleed’ the deployed military in Iraq and Afganistan?
Troops that Murtha voted to send in the first place.
I can respect a Democrat Congressman who just votes for immediate pullout. That would be terrible for the country, but its a mistake an honest person could make.
It wouldn’t be honest to be asking for a troop surge, and then when the President gives you what you asked for then turning on him and trying to pull out the rug. Which many Democrat congressmen did.
The thing that gets my goat about the Murtha/Pelosi/Nutroots elements currently ruling the Democrat party is that they are not honest about what they are trying to do. They don’t care a fig about ’supporting the troops’. Their actions show that they want to maximize U.S. casulties in order to score political points.
The goals of the nutroot wing of the Democrat party are identical with those of Al Queada.
Since they can’t persade enough of their own members to vote out an immediate surrender bill they are resorting to these dishonest ’slow bleed’ bills designed to cause defeat and increase