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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:26 PM
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Oh Look -- more GOP "Civility!" (Headline: "Shouts about Obama interrupt Constitution reading")
Shouts about Obama interrupt Constitution reading
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_house_constitution
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:27 PM
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1. That's outrageous. - Three paragraphs from the story:
WASHINGTON – House Republicans' reading of the Constitution was interrupted Thursday by a woman who shouted "except Obama, except Obama" to the venerable document's words on a U.S. citizen's eligibility to be president.

Just as Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., was reading "no person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States" is eligible for the presidency, a woman in the visitor's gallery yelled out that it did not apply to President Barack Obama.

Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, who was presiding over the House, banged the gavel and halted the proceedings, warning that such action from members of the public was a violation of House rules. The woman was quickly removed by Capitol police.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:28 PM
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2. DId she use the N word? Just wondering. nt
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:29 PM
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4. Be prepared for more of this...
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:33 PM
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7. Yep, pretty sure Rep. Issa was taking notes
for his "investigations."
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:53 PM
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10. Maybe he'll go after the White House Christmas Card List a la Clinton's
administration...
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:55 PM
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11. crap, I forgot all about that one! 140 hrs of testimony about Clinton's Christmas cards!
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/11/20/congress_reduces_its_oversight_role/

WASHINGTON -- Back in the mid-1990s, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, aggressively delving into alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration, logged 140 hours of sworn testimony into whether former president Bill Clinton had used the White House Christmas card list to identify potential Democratic donors.
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 03:00 PM
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12. I hope that the American people are sufficiently fed up with politics as usual
that they will rise up in disgust if such stuff is pulled again by repukes bent on bringing down a popular president. I hope they will demand that legislators spend their time solving some of the problems of our society today...
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 03:03 PM
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13. The house's "reading of the constitution" sets off a lot of alarms for me
I share your hope.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:29 PM
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3. No doubt a repug plant. n/t
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:32 PM
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6. Exactly...
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:45 PM
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8. it was Clarence thomas' wife
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:49 PM
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9. Huh???
Why? It doesn't make Democrats look bad.

:shrug:

-Hoot
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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 02:29 PM
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5. The defining moment...
...of the 112th Congress.
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-11 03:34 PM
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14. Should've had some DUers go and shout
"EXCEPT REPUBLICANS" after every single sentence.
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