Reply #8: Not this bad in my lifetime, and I imagine it hasn't been this bad

[Warpy]

since Reconstruction, although the period of the major changes during FDR's first two terms probably came very close. Rich people controlled the party by then, and they do NOT like being told they have to cough it up for the good of their country.

Rhetoric has been this bad before, of course. However, this is the first time the minority party has been locked out of committee meetings. I thing this is unprecedented. Even when the Civil Rights legislation was being rammed through Congress, nobody was forbidden to have his say on the matter.

I lay the blame for this sick state of affairs squarely on the shoulders of the pricks the GOP has in Congress, especially Delay and Frist. With those two thugs in charge, there is no way things will change.