Lets Act Like Nine Year Olds
I am all for folks willing to take a stand for something they believe in, even if it is just symbolic. But this is just laugh out loud funny. It makes the Republican look both stupid and petty at the same time. I mean why didn’t they do something like this to protest the lack of body armor for our troops in Iraq. Or the billions in cash lost by the Iraqi government. I mean heck, how about the tens of thousands of their fellow citizens that are still living in trailers all across Louisiana and Mississippi. Where is the outrage about these issues?
I don’t know, maybe all the money the oil industry gives out could be the reason.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi’s refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.
At one point, the lights went off in the House and the microphones were turned off in the chamber, meaning Republicans were talking in the dark. But as Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz..) was speaking, the lights went back on, and the microphones were turned on shortly afterward.
But C-SPAN, which has no control over the cameras in the chamber, has stopped broadcasting the House floor, meaning no one is witnessing this except the assembled Republicans, their aides, and one Democrat, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), who has now left.
