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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:38 AM
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Media ignores report on GOP institutional abuse in 108th Congress -Why?
why hasn't the House Democrats' report on institutional abuse in the 108th Congress gotten more attention? http://www.housedemocrats.gov/Docs/BrokenPromises.pdf

As The American Prospect's Sam Rosenfeld notes:
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/03/index.html#005694

The report is terrific for all sorts of reasons. Substantively, it takes up a number of the issues covered in the important fall Boston Globe series on Republican congressional governance and extends the analysis through to the end of the 108th Congress. It turns out that, on matters like the percentage of bills allowed on the floor under open rules, factoring in data from the months of October through December only makes the GOP leadership look more autocratic. Stylistically, the staffers who wrote this thing had the bright idea of using statements made by then-Rules Committee ranking member David Dreier touting a 1993 GOP report on the Democrats' institutional tyranny as a kind of running leitmotif throughout the account. (Dreier, of course, now chairs the Rules Committee and has made it exponentially more ruthless than it ever was under the Dems' control.) Every new topic in the report is helpfully punctuated by impassioned Dreier quotes, circa-'93, making precisely the same arguments that Dems are making now. It's fun stuff.

Yet it has been greeted with deafening silence by the media.

http://mediamatters.org
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Politiclo8 Donating Member (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:43 AM
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1. If you have to ask...........
you've obvoiously been on Mars since Election 2000.
The MSM is owned by and for corporations which are intertwined with the Rethugs.
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-05 10:45 AM
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2. true :-(
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