Drain the Swamp, Part 2
February 28th, 2007 at 11:54 am . by el nuko
There has been an unconfirmed sighting of back-bone from the Republicans in the House ……….
Republicans plan to force a floor vote on Rep. William Jefferson’s move to the Homeland Security Committee in an unprecedented maneuver to force Democrats to go on the record supporting their embattled colleague who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.
House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) pledged to call for a recorded vote on the House floor when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) introduces a resolution to make the Jefferson move official.
Pelosi removed Jefferson from the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in response to Justice Department allegations that the Louisiana Democrat had accepted $100,000 in bribes and stored $90,000 of them in his freezer. The speaker then gave Jefferson a seat on the Homeland Security, and Democrats agreed to the change in a closed-door caucus in February.
“The idea that Homeland Security is less important than the tax-writing committee is ludicrous,” Blunt said Wednesday.
Comment posted by Robert D
at 2/28/2007 8:49:28 PM
“The idea that Homeland Security is less important than the tax-writing committee is ludicrous,” Blunt said Wednesday.
Well yes it is, but you have to figure in the fact that Bela Pelosi is a dhem from CA.
There has been an unconfirmed sighting of back-bone from the Republicans in the House ……….
That is a little tougher. No signs in the last six years, even when they were in power.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 2/28/2007 8:39:22 PM
Hey, Rep. Jefferson isn’t now, nor has he ever been the Iceman.
This is(or was) the Iceman.
Speaking of swamp fever, and Dhimmicrat luminaries, do you recall the former Lt. Gov. of Texas, one Ben Barnes. The same Dhimmicrat that claimed he got President Bush into the Texas Air National Guard to avoid the draft, while working on Jacque Francoise Kerry’s campaign?
He just got owned.
