Dear God! I think we just won. The people of our nation will see this abandonment for what it is

[ThomWV]

The Republicans have turned their backs on the people they are suppose to represent and have left the floor of the House. It is an abdication of duty. It is the utter failure of a political party.

[kirby]

1. What are you talking about?

Some context please?

[tekisui]

2. I just got home, what happened?

[K Gardner]

3. The Republicans walked out b/o the Contempt vote.

[tekisui]

9. Fuck 'em. They don't belong there anyway.

The pukes represent their party. Not, the People.

[The Doctor.]

16. Shoot, let's get some other votes to the floor while they're gone!

Hehehe...

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. LOL! Jesus, was it really THAT easy!

[eleny]

4. Jeez, I had the sound turned down!

:banghead:

I hope they show the seats empty.

[EFerrari]

5. I hope Hoyer gets the frame right.

And, btw, I really liked yours earlier, "resisting arrest". I call them scofflaws but yours is better because it's more concrete. :thumbsup:

[ThomWV]

6. The Republican walked out of the House because they could not get their way

Over the contempt debate and the FISA legislation.

[The Doctor.]

22. Voting on resolution to acknowledge African American inventors?

I say they should vote on impeachment now.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Just like their coward in chief..

they walk away from their duty when called. They all deserve each other.

[rusty charly]

8. It says "planning" a walk out here

but they did it and are hold a press conference on the steps

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/14/664927.aspx

[malaise]

10. See how fast they're holding a press conference

Dems need to respond: Americans want us to protest them from an executive on steroids with full backing from the Rethugs in Congress.

Stand up Dems -time for confrontation.

[MiniMe]

18. Nancy held a press conference immediately

Sounds like they are NOT backing down.

[countryjake]

25. It was the Rethug press conference that was aired on MSM...

replete with a split-screen of the pigs pouring down the steps of Congress, to gather for their big photo-op.

That was three hours ago, and I've still not heard Pelosi's statements aired on the cable news shows. But they have replayed the Rethug spectacle, several times.

MSM is spinning this their way.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. This is a turning point. The country is changing direction, and we're

basically saying that the Republicans have been wrong-minded all this time.

[radfringe]

11. let's get this spin out there

Bonehead accuses dems of poltical grandstanding and then has his own political grandstand by walking out

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Nah. They'll still find a way to say that the Dems are the obstructionists. :^( Just

watch how the media paints this.

[eleny]

13. K&R!

[Cheap_Trick]

14. the MSM won't report it that way

they'll frame it so that the reptilians look like the good guys.

[VP505]

15. Now if only

the Dem's would use this opportunity handed to them, but they will likely SNOOZE & LOOSE again!

[phantom power]

20. you mean, like Katrina was going to show everybody the GOP for what it was?

[ThomWV]

27. It did. That is where, for the general public, it started. For us it was much earlier of course.

They may be comming on board late but its better than not at all. Today wasn't an indicator, it was a death knell.

[Crabby Appleton]

21. I wonder if there is a quorum present. nt

[FSogol]

23. Now's our chance: Impeach them all! n/t

[yurbud]

24. it's not the walking out that was wrong but the issue they chose to do it over

recall that the Texas legislature did the same thing over a non-census year gerrymandering vote.

[Wizard777]

26. Nancy could have made them run back into the room real quick if she wanted to.

The next vote on the floor will be the impeachment of Dick Cheney. :yoiks: :rofl: