Republicans threatening to shut down government again

[Brian_Expat]

This time, it's the Senate, not the House. Worked REAAAAL well for Newt Gingrich!

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20040424.shtml

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is being urged by colleagues to threaten to close down the Senate for the rest of the year unless Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle ends his disruptive tactics.

In addition to menacing all judicial nominations, Daschle is now preventing legislation from being sent to Senate-House conferences to resolve differences in bills passed by both Houses unless the outcome is guaranteed.

Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and other conservatives want Frist to counter Daschle by bringing the business of the Senate to a halt. This would mean passing an omnibus appropriations bill and then awaiting the outcome of the elections. Democrats could not offer their pet amendments, but it also would prevent passage of a budget resolution and, therefore, kill any chance of making the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Awwww, poor babies. By all means, have a tantrum and shut down the Senate. Democratic candidates for office around the country will thank you!

[NMDemDist2]

1. Jon Kyl is my senator ICK

crap again

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Makes impeaching anyone difficult

if you shut down Congress for the rest of the year. Now gee, isn't that convenient?

[skooooo]

9. No one's getting impeached..

...when the majority is held by the Republicans. Do you really think they would vote to impeach Bush?

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. Nope. Impeachment's not the game here..

..It's recess appointments.

If Junior thinks he could lose in November, he's going to be looking for a way to pack the court with fascists by the end of the year. Obviously, the legal and proper way of doing this, through senate confirmation, won't work with the hardcore extremists (actually the fact is that the Senate has approved most of Junior's picks, and obviously none of them were Liberal)

Perhaps Rehnquist has told Junior that he wants to retire. Or Sandy O'Connor, though her loyalty to the regime isn't so certain these days.

It's certainly possible that the Idiot and the Kitty Killer planned out this whole scenario, hoping they could hang the blame on Daschle.

[LDS Jock]

3. If only

they could have their one party dictatorship this wouldn't be necessary. I hate frist. Tennessee DUers, get him out of office!

[DaveSZ]

4. .

At least Daschle is showing a little balls finally.

Jeez it took long enough.

[Skittles]

6. hey

balls are not required for courage

[Mikimouse]

5. Note the tone of the message, and then laugh...

at the source. Novak is barely able to suppress his glee at being able to take cheap and vicious shots at the Dem. leadership. Please note, I am not a Tom Daschle fan, and cannot for the life of me understand why he has not been publicly outraged at what is happening in the government, but will listen to other arguments. I just feel that he has really let me down. As for Novak, the wrinkles around his lips ought to tell you something, and * seems content.

[havocmom]

7. Let them go ahead and shut it down.

Then make sure the public knows why they resort to the tactic...
they are not interested in Democracy and if they can't have a pretend one where they really rule with decisions made by unelected power brokers behind closed doors, they will throw tantrums like two year olds in need of a reality check. Just make sure the public gets the real story, loud and clear: The current GOP is not interested in a government by and for the people and if they can't do things without any compromise and scrutiny, they will refuse to do their job at all.

I am sure that will make them look like they should be considered for rehiring come November :evilgrin: We need to clean out the Congress of the United States via the ballot box and send the corporate shills packing from the halls of government.

It is OUR government and it is time to make all of them understand they are OUR employees. Would your boss let you get away with refusing to do your work because you didn't like having to get along with others?

Fire the bastards!
Pink slips for any who refuse to work honorably.

[skooooo]

8. Shut it down...it's just doing Bush's bidding anyway.