Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Politics - GOP Style
So what do you do when you just can't seem to get anything accomplished? Why, you steal your opponent's idea and pass it off as your own, that's what. And that's just what the Republicans did today.
Yesterday, House minority leader Harry Reid announced the Democratic Party's plan for Iraq as an amendment to the defense bill. Then today, Sen. Warner of Virginia introduced his own amendment in which he literally crossed-out the names of the Democratic Senators and penciled in his own name along with Sen. Bill Frist's. The Republicans then changed a scant few words and crossed out the last section of the original amendment and called it their own. (Compare them for yourself: Democratic version - Republican version) Damn! Talk about lazy. It's like the loser from high school who didn't even bother to reformat the book report he copied off the internets.
Typical conservatives. Take a Democratic idea and claim it as your own. We've seen it before with the 9/11 commission and the Dept. of Homeland Security. But I'm sure it won't stop them from claiming that the Democrats aren't offering any ideas. However, those of us who are paying attention know it's all a lie just like everything else we've been getting from the conservatives for the last five years.
On the bright side, however, at least something is getting done while these ignorant fuckers are in control.
- The Republican-controlled Senate easily defeated a Democratic effort Tuesday to pressure President Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. It then overwhelmingly endorsed a weaker statement calling on the administration to explain its Iraq policy.
Yesterday, House minority leader Harry Reid announced the Democratic Party's plan for Iraq as an amendment to the defense bill. Then today, Sen. Warner of Virginia introduced his own amendment in which he literally crossed-out the names of the Democratic Senators and penciled in his own name along with Sen. Bill Frist's. The Republicans then changed a scant few words and crossed out the last section of the original amendment and called it their own. (Compare them for yourself: Democratic version - Republican version) Damn! Talk about lazy. It's like the loser from high school who didn't even bother to reformat the book report he copied off the internets.
Typical conservatives. Take a Democratic idea and claim it as your own. We've seen it before with the 9/11 commission and the Dept. of Homeland Security. But I'm sure it won't stop them from claiming that the Democrats aren't offering any ideas. However, those of us who are paying attention know it's all a lie just like everything else we've been getting from the conservatives for the last five years.
On the bright side, however, at least something is getting done while these ignorant fuckers are in control.
