GOP To Introduce Lame-Duck Prohibition Resolution, Citing Browner's Remarks On Energy Bill

[savalez]

Source: HuffPo

House Republicans are going forward with plans to introduce a resolution on Tuesday to prohibit the House of Representatives from assembling during the two-month period following the November elections.

A GOP leadership aide confirmed to the Huffington Post that the resolution, authored by Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) for the purposes of preventing Democrats from passing legislative items during the lame-duck session, would be introduced before the House passes additional Medicaid and teacher funding. The aide argued that comments on Sunday by Carol Browner, the White House's top energy and environmental adviser, suggesting that energy legislation could be considered during the so-called lame duck period, proved that the resolution was pertinent.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/09/gop-to-introduce-lame-duc_n_675630.html

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This is more reason (as if we needed more) that we need to win in November.

[tomhayes]

1. Whaaaaa????????

They want to not work for the months after the elections???

Whaaaaaa?????????

They sound absolutely INSANE!

What's next? A repeal of the 14th and 20th amendments??

[ck4829]

2. Wish I could vote myself a two month paid vacation

[savalez]

3. It's being dubbed "The Republican Winter Vacation Act"

[Pirate Smile]

4. In 1996, Republicans got their asses kicked and then came back and impeached Bill Clinton in a

lame-duck session of Congress.

Those hypocritical assholes can just suck it.

[Roland99]

5. Knowing how weak-kneed the Dems are in this Congress, wouldn't surprise me if it passed.

[savalez]

9. It won't. The story explains why.

[Roland99]

12. yes, I read that about the procedural maneuvering. My comment still stands.

[caraher]

6. That's all they've got - publicity stunts

There's obviously not a snowball's chance in hell of the thing passing. They just want to point to its failure and say the Dems don't want to listen to the will of the people - as if there's never been a lame duck session before.

[Tempest]

7. And these assholes had the nerve to complain about Michelle's vacation

Fucking hypocrites.

[pdefalla]

8. This is a great Idea

If the Republicans regain control of the congress, why don't we just prohibit them from assembling until the following election?

[savalez]

10. LOL! I just spit out my coffee.

[KansDem]

11. Let me see if I understand this

The Repubs, afraid they won't be able to stop Dems from helping Medicaid and the nation's teachers, will simply not show up?

Another Gingrich "Shut Down the Gov" moment? That worked so well last time...:eyes:

[savalez]

13. They are doomed to repeat the past - therefore we are also doomed if they win.

[aquart]

22. Would we have a quorum without them?

[KansDem]

23. I wondered that, too...

:shrug:

[SoapBox]

14. More games? More ploys? More not getting anything done?

...gawd, I hate these clowns.

The Party of NO, continues the NO party.

[Demeter]

15. Good! That will keep Social Security Safe

from the cat food commission.

[Warren Stupidity]

19. no it won't.

A republican congress is more likely to pass the catfood gambit than a democratic congress.

[Demeter]

29. OnTheir Head Be It. Not Ours.

[defendandprotect]

31. Astonishing that we now have to worry about our own party destroying Social Security--!!!

Thanks, Obama!!! More great "change" -- !!!

Wow!!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Better idea, GOP. Just all of you go home and never come back, but keep on taking that paycheck for

doing absolutely nothing for this country nor its citizens!

[BumRushDaShow]

17. The rethugs should all resign, en masse, and leave. NOW. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

18. these turds have got to go.

[RayStar]

20. Got to go

This is just downright dirty. How can anyone harbor this much hatred for one man?

[MineralMan]

21. Support your local Democratic Congressional Candidate!

Get out there and work for him or her. Get out the Democratic vote! That's how we do it.

[droidamus2]

24. Well of course

Of course what the Republicans will do, if they could, is pass this legislation with the idea that they will take the House in November and come January after the 'lame duck' session but prior to the next election in 2012 they will do away with the legislation because they have 'seen the error of their ways'. These people don't believe in rules unless it benefits them.

[ladywnch]

25. HELL! they already get as more vacation than the rest of the country.

fine, you want to take 2 months (MORE) off.......you can take a coresponding 16% pay cut then!

[ladywnch]

26. Filibuster it! LOL

[BlueIdaho]

27. Counting their chickens...

Before they're hatched. Seems like the republicans are already counting on big wins this fall... Thus, stopping a lame duck session from passing further legislation makes it just that much easier to try to turn back the clock and erase the progress of the last 18 months. Are we planning to fight like hell to stop them?

[sofa king]

28. ...Which will be strangled in the subcommittee crib.

Dude, I don't remember during the Bush years any articles about Democratic resolutions that were never gonna be given a moment's attention.

[defendandprotect]

30. May be a signal that the GOP knows it's going to lose ... because . . .

I don't think that a Democratic Party which lost its majority in November would

try anything like that -- would be too embarrassing and too obvious --

Rather, it's something that the GOP would do --

Meanwhile, I do think that they're taking too much time off with too much to be done!!

Evidently they're going to try again on the jobs bill tomorrow?