The most ethical congress evah!!
The audacity of arrogance this congress and their majority “leaders” is comtemptable. The Democrats “Closed Door Policy” has claimed to want Republican input into the health care debate, yet has shut them out on not only health care, but multiple issues throughout the year. Let us recount the ways:
Via Human Events:
Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight “stimulus” power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations to resolve a final version of the Obama “stimulus” package. Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the “stimulus” conference report.
They intend to attempt to shove this $1.3 trillion spending bill through in the dead of the night without Republican input so floor action can take place in both chambers on Thursday.
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.
Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.
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A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained as of press time.
Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings to be taped.
And there’s more to this story too:
(More after the leap)
But now, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats arrogance doesn’t just close the door on Republicans. But it also closes the door on the public.
When there was a second attempt, “the public” was told to stand way in the back since “the public” was not able to RSVP or was a “special guest”. Is that exactly “open” to the public?
Why was a public event on public property about the public option not open to the public?
Remember when President Obama campaigned on transparency and openness?
So much for the negotiations being televised. Well, at least the new Pelosi health care bill is online.
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