GOP in House call Dems heavy-handed After majority rams through 'Six for '06' bills

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/25/MNGI6NOCOO1.DTL

Rep. Nancy Pelosi publicly and repeatedly pledged before November's election that if Democrats won a House majority and she became speaker they would treat Republicans with respect and comity and would foster bipartisanship.

Instead, three weeks into a session in which the strong-willed Pelosi has rammed through important legislation and major rule changes, increasingly exasperated and angry Republicans are asking when the new Democratic speaker and her leadership team will keep their pledge to create a less-partisan, more-open atmosphere.

Democrats counter that their much ballyhooed "Six for '06" legislative package, which included items such as raising the minimum wage and fostering embryonic stem cell research, was a hurried exception to the deliberative, inclusive fashion in which they expect to run the House over the next two years. They also say that the same Republicans guilty of heavy-handed behavior when they ran the House shouldn't be so quick to criticize the new majority just getting its feet wet.

"Whine me a river,'' one senior Democratic House aide said, referring to Republican gripes.

Republicans remain skeptical. "Yeah, the check is in the mail,'' joked Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the House's No. 2 Republican, when asked if he expects Democrats to start acting in the respectful manner they said the GOP should act during the 12 years Pelosi and her colleagues spent chafing in the minority.

:nopity: Payback's a b*tch - you whiners treated the Dems a whole lot worse!

[William769]

1. ...

"Republicans are asking when the new Democratic speaker and her leadership team will keep their pledge to create a less-partisan, more-open atmosphere." Hopefully never.

[aquart]

5. I dunno, fellas. How long did it take you guys?

Oh, right.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Prediction

Republican whiners in the house will rush home come next election cycle and claim credit for what has been done in the house the past month.

[CottonBear]

4. You know, I bet that they will do that too. They have no shame.

Democrats should stroingly and immediately counter any statements made by Republicans taking credit for legislation they did not support.

[CottonBear]

3. "Whine me a river,'' one senior Democratic House aide said, referring to Republican gripes.

:rofl: I love it!

I bet little Patrick McHenry (R-NC) is whining away topday as he does every single day.

[wageslave71]

21. Ha Ha

that's exactly who I thought about first. My parents have the misfortune of living in McHenry's district (NC-10). He's an arrogant sissy-boy who likes talking tough and I expect you're right. He probably cried the loudest.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

23. McHenry is the new Santorum. He ran to floor to bring up Tunagate

after Hoyer and I think Drier had just dicussed the exclusion of American Samoa from the minimum wage
bill. American Samoa is legally equilized through the Labor Dept., somehow. They were stating laws from the 1920's or 30's and then updated in the 1950's.

I predict he will suffer the same fate as Rick, only in less time, I hope.

CB - Barbaro had another operation but is still hanging in there, doing well they say. He takes a licking, but keeps on ticking. Thought you'd like to know!

[fidgeting wildly]

6. Classic Republican logic: "Do as I say, not as I do." nt

[Vinca]

7. In a nutshell, being in the minority is not so much fun.

Boo hoo, you miserable 'pukes, boo hoo.:cry:

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Time to call the W-A-A-A-A-A-H-H-H-mbulance for these 'Pukes.

Buncha fuckin' crybabies.

:nopity:

[PittPoliSci]

13. i say we get them a WAAAHHburger.

with some French Cries. err..'scuse me, Freedom Cries.

[underpants]

9. They are worried about a "pledge"? a "promise"? What about LIES?

you were lied to
you were complicit in those lies


Grow up you little punks

[tanyev]

10. It is less partisan. Less partisan than when they were in charge.

It's astonishing how bad Republicans' memories are.

[Cass]

11. Too friggin' bad if they don't like it. They had 12 years to act properly but

instead they chose to act like assholes. They need to get over themselves in a big way. Maybe Pelposi will let them have a whine and moan session in the basement. Bwahahaha.

:nopity:

[MasonJar]

12. "Whine me a river" is the best! You just have to love it.

[denverbill]

14. How bout "We'll do it when the Senate votes for cloture on the minimum wage increase." n/t

[Bandit]

15. Why oh why can't the Democrats treat Republicans like they

wished they had been treated. That in essence is what the Republican Minority leader said just a couple of weeks ago...I think the exact quote was "They should treat us as they wished they had been treated"....

[Judi Lynn]

25. Ohhhhh, good one! I missed it the first time. Thanks. n/t

[Acadia Blue]

16. Boo hoo. What cry babies. Bullies can't handle it when they get

some of their own stuff. ha ha

[Lochloosa]

17. "Whine me a river,''

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MissMillie]

18. Didn't almost all 6 of those bills have bi--partisan support?

So my guess is that these Republicans who are crying "foul" are probably way to the right of center and are upset that they're going to have to put up with some moderation in Congress from now on.

So yeah... boo fucking hoo

[Javaman]

19. Hey blunt, have a taste if the shit sandwich you and your thugs have been

feeding the dems and the public for the last 12 years. Doesn't taste so good does it.

What a fucking dick.

[Cobalt-60]

20. Each days session should open with description

of the majority's behavior on the corresponding day of the last congress.
With their behavior rubbed int their faces every day, the complaints would taper off.

[fujiyama]

22. What was that about mandates?

As others have said, they'll take credit for things they voted against.

I'd say lying is second hand to them, but fuck that's almost all they do.

[hyphenate]

24. Oh

too fucking bad, assholes. Karma's finally got you. You scum sucking pieces of crap--just a dose of your very own medicine.

These fuckers are nothing but spoiled, stuck-up children whining when they don't get their own way.

You know, if I came from a state where these assholes came from, and I found out they were the biggest, most immature dicks around, I would write them a letter or email and tell them to STFU and remind them that they treated the Dems like shit, so they're only getting back what they themselves gave. I doubt if many of them can or will realize that, but it would be worth a try at the very least.

[SemperEadem]

26. So? Man up and stop whining... the Dems had to.

There is no reason in the world why the Dems should do anything to make it easy for the thugs... they didn't do it when it was their turn at the wheel.

Indeed--'whine me a river'.