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It’s Come To This: Republicans Locked Out Of Oversight Committee Room
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
The Hill:
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 ...
THE HILL: Democrats Lock Republicans Out Of Committee Room. “Towns’ action came after repeated p…
Instapundit —
... THE HILL: Democrats Lock Republicans Out Of Committee Room. “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.” ...
Fannie, Bar the Door! Democrats Lock GOP Out of Committee Room to Prevent Investigation Into Sweetheart Mortgage Deals
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... -- Democrats decided to lock the door to the room to prevent GOP members from entering . 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. ...
Dems Flee Countrywide Vote
Power Line —
... That's not quite the end of the story. The Democrats, led by committee chairman Edolphus Towns, were stung by ridicule that resulted from Thursday's debacle. So now they've locked the committee room: ...
Dems Lock GOP Out of Committee Room to Protect Colleagues From Investigation
Gateway Pundit —
Here’s the Latest From the Pelosi Swamp–
House democrats locked Republicans out of a committee room today to avoid a subpoena vote. Democrats for months have refused to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.
The Hill reported:
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 ...
Keystone Congress
The Volokh Conspiracy —
This is your government at work, as reported in The Hill.
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 ...
Democrats Lock Republicans Out of Committee Room
Blogs For Victory —
Childish and weak, Democrats:
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.
And there’s the really bad part of it - Democrats are engaging in this nonsense in order to ...
Casual Observation
Booman Tribune —
A small sliver of me still holds on to the expectation that our Congress will set a positive example and not act like third-graders . I am going to be a father soon, and I'd like it if my government didn't serve as constant counterexample to how I'd like my child to behave. But it's currently hopeless. It's a constant mud-fight. And no one seems to know what the word 'shame' means anymore.
The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Note —
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The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery: “Liberals increase pressure for public insurance plan in health bill” LINK
The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Hitt and Janet Adamy: “Fight Over Medicare Cuts Plays Into Larger Debate” LINK
Time’s Jay Newton-Small “A Fight Over Docs' Reimbursement Rates Is Latest Threat to Health Reform” LINK
The Hill's Susan Crabtree: “Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room” LINK
The Hill's Mike Soraghan: “Medicare for everyone” LINK
The Los Angeles ...
“Culture of corruption” doesn’t even begin to cover it
Cold Fury —
Way to drain that swamp , scumbags. 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 ...
The Early Word: Seeking Legitimacy
The Caucus —
... , a day before the former governor’s best-selling book “Going Rogue” hits the bookshelves. Can’t Make This Stuff Up A partisan battle on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee just got uglier. The Hill’s Susan Crabtree wrote that Representative Edolphus Towns, the New York Democratic chairman of the committee, locked Republicans out of the committee’s conference room to keep them from meeting while Democrats are not present. Republicans on the committee are upset that Democrats will not investigate so-called sweetheart mortgage deals that some of their ...
Unusual Business: Movement on health care tests Obama’s ties to his base
The Note —
... Making Congress look really ... grown-up: "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," The Hill's Susan Crabtree reports. "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." ...
Nothing To See Here
Shot in the Dark —
... — Mitch Berg @ 7:26 am It took the GOP the better part of four years to piddle away the goodwill that it won during the early 2000s. Congrats, Dems; between your heavy-handed antics , your ...
Children at play.
Daily Pundit —
Via BigGovernment. Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
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 ...
Transparency? What transparency?
Hyscience —
Clearly, the Democrats in the new Obamaworld can't stand having their activities being scrutinized or criticized, and they especially don't like being caught in a lie on tape.
Via The Hill: Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and G overnment 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 ...
The Democrats impose third world politics on US
Commonsense & Wonder —
Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room It's how Mao would have done it.
Hit The Road Jack
The Moderate Voice —
Guest Post By C.J. Smith
C.J. Smith aka “Leonidas” is a frequent, right of center commenter on The Moderate Voice and has been invited as a Guest Voice.
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Remember the Democratic Oversight that was promised, and Nancy Pelosi’s claim that Democrats would “drain the swamp”? Well seems like they are falling short of these pledges once again.
Via The Hill:
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform ...
See Dodd spin. Spin, Dodd! Spin!
RedState —
... of last week, as the committee was about to meet, the Republicans said that they wanted a vote on whether to subpoena Countrywide’s records on the VIP program. The Democrats were between a rock and a hard place: the last thing they want to do is investigate their own party’s corruption, but at the same time, they don’t want to be seen voting to cover up the Countrywide scandal.
So what did the Democrats do? To a man (or woman), they hid.
Locking the doors on the Republicans - no, really! - didn’t help, either. So now ...
Michele Bachmann Offers Nancy Pelosi a House Call, Plus What Appears to Be a Free HR 3962 Enema
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... . In fact, the interview with the Washington News Observer is almost better because of how flustered she gets when she relays the tragedy of when "the Democrats in the House actually locked doors the changed locks on doors so Republicans couldn't even get into committee meetings," equating an event that had nothing to do with healthcare with the reform bill. The closest thing to truthiness that Bachmann says in that interview is clearly a mistake (or maybe she loses all sense of grammar when she tells the truth?) when she says, I kid you not: "There's almost anybody in United ...
After Locking Repubs Out Of Health Bill Dealings, Obama Flak Accuses GOP Of Lacking Bipartisanship
Say Anything —
... It’s kind of hard to be bipartisan when you’re locked out of the room. It’s hard to be bipartisan when ...
