Democrats furious over GOP efforts to rewrite amendments

[lala_rawraw]

Take a drink before you read this:

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/byrne/gop_rewrites_dem_amendments_427.htm
by John Byrne

Democrats in the House are furious over what they see as a deliberate attempt by Republicans to rewrite Democratic amendments to make the Democrats amendments look preposterous, RAW STORY has learned.

The Republican-written rewrites, along with the Democratic description of the amendments, follows. RAW STORY has also learned that Republicans have not rewritten similar amendments in the past. A copy from the Congressional record in 2002 is included below, showing the "neutral" language used in a previous Congress.

[emulatorloo]

1. The Limbaughfication of the Congressional Record

infuriating. . .and exhausting. . .these repugs are just relentless - like some horrible Rove driven energizer bunnies.

Wonder who's idea this nonsense was? Wonder what I can do to stop it?

[SaveElmer]

2. Have they lost it entirely ?

With all the bad publicity, and their precipitious drop in the polls, you'd think these people would try and be careful for a while...but no...acting like the petulent children they are they throw gasoline on an already out of control fire!!!

[bemildred]

3. Desperate stupid people just get stupider as they get more desperate. nt

[impeachthescoundrel]

4. I agree with bemildred

and I emailed KO.

[loudsue]

9. Repukes don't worry about polls: they own the vote-counting machines

Why should they be the slightest bit concerned with what WE, THE PEOPLE think? They will continue to win elections, because their biggest donors count the votes.

:kick:

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Best explanation of the Republican madness yet.

[BillZBubb]

5. This childishness needs to be highlighted.

The Democrats need to get this into the main stream media and "hammer" it.

[Barrett808]

6. Obviously the work of...Overzealous Republican Staffer!

http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=18951

[iamjoy]

7. They're Obsessed With Sexual Predators

Hmmm...what would Freud say about that?

[Justitia]

8. They outright lied and added false info to the Congressional Record!

And admitted it, and confirmed they did it because they were pissed!
And they have no remorse or shame about it!
UnFuckingBelievable!

They are throwing vindictive temper tantrums like children and they are the freaking majority!

American citizens are surely screwed.

[Shallah Kali]

16. They have no shame and are willing to alter government records

to suit their aims. Nothing is beyond these people. Just when I think they have reached the limit they exceed my expectations once again.

[bain_sidhe]

17. Ministry of Truth

AKA "The Sensenbrenner Standard" per Rep Louise Slaughter on Daily Kos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/27/104035/827)

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

--George Orwell, 1984

We're there folks.

[hedda_foil]

10. They will use the distorted Congressional Record info in campaign attacks

Mark my words. We'll be seeing these distortions quoted verbatim from the Congressional Record in attack ads and mailing pieces across the country. This is all part of Rove's planning for campaign '06.

[Megahurtz]

12. We are living in a nightmare.

:wow:

[xchrom]

13. democrats should stage a walkout.

let everyone get in the house and walk the fuck out.

[Deja Q]

14. Republicans control all. So why do they act like they're the minority?

[applegrove]

15. They don't care where or how they **** the American people so long

as they **** them. They follow no known rules. But they make them. Right out of the toolbag of the sociopaths.