Congressional disarray.
Robert Novak on Fox today: “I’ll tell you what the problem is, that without DeLay, the House of Representatives under the Republicans — the wheels have come off the cart. … It is chaos up there, and they’re going for their Easter recess without a budget bill, without a tax bill. Without DeLay, it hasn’t been working very well and it really worked at its worst this week.”
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Thre truth is without DeLay covering for the do-nothings we can really see what a one party system can do….NOTHING!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:30 pmI guess they can’t do anything without getting paid!!!
They need Delay back to help distribute there ill-gotten-gains.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:33 pmNo kick backs, no work, sound like the repubs way. They must be on strike for more graft. It sounds like what novhack is saying
April 7th, 2006 at 1:33 pmYep, Might be corrupt, but at least he was Organized…
April 7th, 2006 at 1:33 pmJust like I thought. Without Delay this country is screwed. Nope couldn’t write that with a straight face…..did Novak say with one?
April 7th, 2006 at 1:36 pmS.D, that’s why they call it organized crime.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:37 pmHAMMER NAILED!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:38 pmNow it’s Novhack’s turn. Stay tuned, Bob.
The ripple effect will reach you eventually.
the wheels have come off the cart
Inded they have…not because of Delay…
It is because of that 9,000,000,000,000 elephant sitting on the cart with a monkey sitting on top of the elephant.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:39 pmWITH DeLay it was still the do-nothingness Congress ever. Whadda bunch of zombie lemmings “legislating” this country.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:40 pmthe republicans are facing a huge split in their own party, the dems are not rolling over as much. I think without Delay it is like the wheels coming off the cart. Without a single figure to force conformity, they’re unable to accomplish anything.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:41 pmWow. Doesn’t that just about say it all? Without being led by an unethical crook, the Republicans have no idea what to do. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the current political situation in the United States explained as well as that episode has drawn it out.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:47 pmYou know what scares the bejeezus out of me? The fact that in my heart I know that the powers that be (and you know who I’m talking about), made 911 happen. Look up False Flag terrorism and you will find a slew of information.
Well, with their poll numbers in the toilet, with all the outrageousness of what they are doing and keep doing, do you think they will simply sit idley by during the mid terms? Knowing full well that they will (if a fair election) lose both houses. Which is our only hope for righteousness. I feel impending dread and uneasiness about what they will do to keep that from happening. Where, when? Mark my words, they will not go quietly.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:48 pmI don’t know if that’s entirely true, man. The Republicans were able to get some anti-localism, anti-internet legislation out of committee:
http://www.freepress.net/news/14815
April 7th, 2006 at 1:48 pmSo after getting nothing done, they took the sage advice of President Bush. Go on vacation and forget about it.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:49 pmIt makes perfect sense to me…no reputable crime organization can function without a tried and true mob boss. There is an old Italian saying that goes like this, “When a fish goes bad, it starts in the head”.
http://www.thoughttheater.com
April 7th, 2006 at 1:55 pmI know this is off-topic, but I just read this.
McClellan said the release of the declassified information was very different from what he called the potentially damaging leak of information about Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program which aims to track phone calls and e-mails in the United States to suspected al Qaeda contacts abroad.
So…..releasing the name of a covert CIA agent who was on a mission to track WMD’s is way more important than Bush conducting an illegal spy ring. Huh…who’da thunk it!
April 7th, 2006 at 1:57 pmNovak is an idiot. I give DeLay credit for nothing — except killing bugs.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:59 pmI am pretty eager to see what is posted from the daily white house briefing. Does anyone have a score card for all the lies? I think I need one.
April 7th, 2006 at 1:59 pmSometimes, a do-nothing Congress is a good thing, especially if they REALLY want to do evil. Which you KNOW they did.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:07 pmI just read an article on CNN.com about the immigration bill not passing. In the picture caption it says that the GOP blames Dems for obstruction and failure of the bil. In the article it says the vote was 38 for and 60 against. And then it says that the vote was nearly down party lines. I am not sure but obstruting means that you are holding it up. Voting for it seems to be helping it along. Somebody….I need a Jack and coke.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:08 pmHold the coke
April 7th, 2006 at 2:09 pmhahahahahahahahahaha!
ROFLMAO
April 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmWhat dems voted against it and why?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmYea, compare the House to how the Senate handles their ethical dilemmas. (hat tip to TPM). Nothing a fine cuban cigar couldn’t make a little better.
OK, that’s my snark for the day.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:16 pmIf that’s the case,Bob,then let’s just hire Satan to run the Congress.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:22 pmNow the Repugs are saying that the Dems wouldn’t allow amendments to the bill. The stupid thing is that this bill was already a compromise between the parties. Any further amendments would disrupt that compromise thereby OBSTRUCTING the passing of the bill. Just a bow shot to any troll’s arguement of the Dems obstruction talking point.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:35 pmThe Repubs just didn’t want to let this thing go this quickly, so they stopped it. Now they’re pulling their same old shit, and the Dems need to make sure they call bullshit on it — even if it takes a few minutes from their Easter Break. Hear that Dems?
April 7th, 2006 at 2:43 pmWow, even Novakula has noticed the chunks of iceberg on the deck …
April 7th, 2006 at 2:44 pmAverage Republican Congressman: Nobody is paying me to vote yea or nay, what am I going to do? What am I going to do? Oh, my country for a crook!
April 7th, 2006 at 2:47 pmAssistant: You could just read up on what the bill says and vote with your conscience.
Average Republican Congressman: What’s conscience?
So, I guess only a liar, cheat, and convicted felon is capable of running the GOP.
No surprise to me.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:54 pmWhile on yet another vacation, maybe the repubs can go on nice little nature walks from their hometowns and flip over rocks until someone finds a new leader.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:57 pmThere is such disarray among the party in control of every branch of government, that the failure to pass the touted immigration bill is all the Democrats’ fault.
April 7th, 2006 at 3:14 pmIsn’t it convenient that the Democrats are in congress at all — except that they make a nice fall guy for all the failures of the Rethugs.
Novak is washed up. The Republican party will be washed up in the fall.
So lemmee get this straight–the repukes are in firm control of both houses of congress AND the executive branch, yet they can’t get their excrement together??
Well, to their credit, they got it together enough to start an illegal war that’s cost hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives, entered into an illegal nuclear agreement with India (that ol’ nuclear non-proliferation treaty was for sissies anyway–but did you know that Iran signed it but Israel never did?), buried the country under a stupefying debt load for the next several centuries, as well as a host of other heinous crimes…
April 7th, 2006 at 3:31 pmDelay once said he was the government. Yikes! His process of being King made the Republican congress a cripple.
So Republicans are like the Star Trek borg, they can not think on their own.
They don’t stand for their own thoughts, they stand for someone elses.
Kind of pathetic, if it weren’t absolutely danagerous for our Democracy.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:54 pm31 -dlet: “…and flip over rocks until someone finds a new leader.”
They won’t find anything under the rocks… their environmental policies have killed anything that might be living there.
April 7th, 2006 at 5:42 pmWith so much extra time on his hands, Delay should be able to line someone up to extricate the corncob from his ass. As for the rest of the Republicans, they’re only on a par with the loyal (”opposition”) Democrats. They all work for the same special interests and elite few. It’s high time for the rest of us to stop voting to enrich and empower these war criminals, and take direct action to undermine the most destructive empire known to man, America.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:31 pmExcellent. It’s best when these criminals do nothing. Hang them all.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:46 pmthey’re all sociopaths, they will say and do whatever they think is in their own interest and that they can get away with
this is now a bannana republic
April 7th, 2006 at 7:44 pmmadashell is saying exactly what I have been thinking today.
April 7th, 2006 at 10:01 pmThey have two ways to play it: Take their billions in war profiteering
bribes and corruption and let there be a real vote in november
or pull some more 9-11 crap like they already have.
Fitz and all the REAL Americans behind and protecting Him,
in fact, All Real Americans in the Law inforcement complement
in high places, need to really be on their toes or these traitorous, anti-human
criminals will try some new crap to cause choas.
I really hope I am wrong here and there are real, uncorrupted elections
in november, but I am not holding my breath…..
I’ll always have a greazy place in my heart for T.D..
April 8th, 2006 at 2:02 amNice to see that Robert Novak loves dictators. He must have orgasmed over Adolf!
April 8th, 2006 at 10:08 am