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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongressional Republicans debate empty chairs, lose
Congressional Republicans debate empty chairs, lose
By Steve Benen
As a last-minute stunt, House Republicans, who've spent the last six months refusing to enter budget negotiations with Democrats, announced late last night that they're ready for budget negotiations with Democrats. Early this morning, GOP leaders selected the eight members they'd like to send to these negotiations, known as a "conference committee."
True to form, Republicans chose eight middle-aged, far-right white guys, most of whom are from the south. They then put the eight GOP lawmakers in a conference room across from empty chairs, and tweeted the picture in the hopes of making it appear that they, unlike those rascally Democrats, are "ready to negotiate."
And if there's one thing Republicans are good at, it's debating empty chairs, right Clint Eastwood?
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So if the eight middle-aged, far-right white guys want to stop losing a debate to empty chairs and start governing, they should move past these little stunts and turn the government's lights on.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/10/01/20774946-congressional-republicans-debate-empty-chairs-lose
By Steve Benen
As a last-minute stunt, House Republicans, who've spent the last six months refusing to enter budget negotiations with Democrats, announced late last night that they're ready for budget negotiations with Democrats. Early this morning, GOP leaders selected the eight members they'd like to send to these negotiations, known as a "conference committee."
True to form, Republicans chose eight middle-aged, far-right white guys, most of whom are from the south. They then put the eight GOP lawmakers in a conference room across from empty chairs, and tweeted the picture in the hopes of making it appear that they, unlike those rascally Democrats, are "ready to negotiate."
And if there's one thing Republicans are good at, it's debating empty chairs, right Clint Eastwood?
<...>
So if the eight middle-aged, far-right white guys want to stop losing a debate to empty chairs and start governing, they should move past these little stunts and turn the government's lights on.
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/10/01/20774946-congressional-republicans-debate-empty-chairs-lose
Stuck on stupid.
The point of Republicans rejecting conference for several months.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023756159
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Congressional Republicans debate empty chairs, lose (Original Post)
ProSense
Oct 2013
OP
The "white" is blinding...skin color, shirts, half of the heads of hair. n/t
libdem4life
Oct 2013
#1
So now they say they want a conference committee when they've been blocking it for months
Cali_Democrat
Oct 2013
#5
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)1. The "white" is blinding...skin color, shirts, half of the heads of hair. n/t
Cha
(297,716 posts)2. Funny.. Steve Benen threw Clint Eastwood in there to
make his point about Empty Chairs!
"Stuck on stupid" and so far down the rabbit hole.. they'll never get out.
Thanks PS
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)3. They probably squeeze into one side of a booth at diners and
Get really strange looks too. That "photo op" screams "photo op" and looks ridiculous.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)4. Only six months late.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)5. So now they say they want a conference committee when they've been blocking it for months
Clowns.