red states rule
08-06-2008, 06:44 AM
Didn't the Dems promise in 2006 to work with Republicans? To allow the minority to take part in debates? To work hard to lower gas prices?
GOP to Pelosi: Open These Doors So We Can Vote
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:42 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, one of nearly 100 Republican members of Congress who have come back to Washington to demand a vote on a comprehensive energy bill, held up a sign Tuesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office number on it and pointed toward the closed doors of the House chamber.
“We’re having people call this number and say, ‘Speaker Pelosi, Open those doors. Call us back into session and allow us to vote on a comprehensive energy plan.’”
It was a moment typical of the untypical political theater that has gripped the nation’s capital over the past two days, and the Republicans were enjoying every minute of it.
“What’s happening right now is completely unprecedented,” Rep. Mike Pence told bloggers who had been invited to meet Republican leaders in the office of Minority Leader John Boehner.
Pence and other top Republicans said that they were “surprised” at how the impromptu protest that began on Friday, when Pelosi gaveled the House into an election-season recess, snowballed into a movement of outrage that has rocked voters from coast to coast.
Since then, Republican members of Congress have come back from their districts to occupy the House chamber so they can talk about the bipartisan energy bill that Pelosi refuses to bring to a vote, even though the House speaker ordered pulled the plug on the microphones and the lights and ordered C-SPAN to turn off its TV cameras.
“Members are coming back to Capitol Hill, leaving behind their families, to take a stand for energy independence,” Pence said.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/pelosi_republicans_energy/2008/08/05/119384.html
GOP to Pelosi: Open These Doors So We Can Vote
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 10:42 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size
Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, one of nearly 100 Republican members of Congress who have come back to Washington to demand a vote on a comprehensive energy bill, held up a sign Tuesday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office number on it and pointed toward the closed doors of the House chamber.
“We’re having people call this number and say, ‘Speaker Pelosi, Open those doors. Call us back into session and allow us to vote on a comprehensive energy plan.’”
It was a moment typical of the untypical political theater that has gripped the nation’s capital over the past two days, and the Republicans were enjoying every minute of it.
“What’s happening right now is completely unprecedented,” Rep. Mike Pence told bloggers who had been invited to meet Republican leaders in the office of Minority Leader John Boehner.
Pence and other top Republicans said that they were “surprised” at how the impromptu protest that began on Friday, when Pelosi gaveled the House into an election-season recess, snowballed into a movement of outrage that has rocked voters from coast to coast.
Since then, Republican members of Congress have come back from their districts to occupy the House chamber so they can talk about the bipartisan energy bill that Pelosi refuses to bring to a vote, even though the House speaker ordered pulled the plug on the microphones and the lights and ordered C-SPAN to turn off its TV cameras.
“Members are coming back to Capitol Hill, leaving behind their families, to take a stand for energy independence,” Pence said.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/pelosi_republicans_energy/2008/08/05/119384.html