Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room

[red states rule]

Once again Dems are trying to keep the lid on their complicity in creating the mortgage loan "bubble"

Democrats lock Republicans out of committee room
By Susan Crabtree - 10/20/09 05:47 PM ET
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.

Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.

For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.

Republicans charged that Towns cancelled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.

A GOP committee staffer captured video of Democrats leaving their separate meeting in private chambers after the mark-up was supposed to have begun. He spliced the video to other footage of the Democrats’ empty chairs at the hearing room, set it to the tune of “Hit the Road, Jack” and posted it on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s minority webpage, where it remained as of press time.

Towns’s staffers told Republicans they were not happy about the presence of the video camera in the hearing room when they were not present. Issa’s spokesman said the Democrats readily acknowledged to Republicans that they changed the locks in retaliation to the videotape of the Democrats’ absence from the business meeting even though committee rules allow meetings to be taped.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/63...committee-room

[sgtdmski]

They show their true colors and they are called on it, and in retaliation they change the locks. WOW, what cry babies. You know what this means folks, I can proudly proclaim that the party in control of the Congress shall here forth be known as the "Cowards of the Congress""!!!!!!

dmk

[red states rule]

They show their true colors and they are called on it, and in retaliation they change the locks. WOW, what cry babies. You know what this means folks, I can proudly proclaim that the party in control of the Congress shall here forth be known as the "Cowards of the Congress""!!!!!!

dmk

I know damn well Chris Dod does want anyone looking into the VIP plan Countrywide had since he got one of those sweet deals

[sgtdmski]

None of the Democrats want an in depth Congressional hearing into the crisis. For if they do, their role will come out in pressuring banks to give loans to people who had no business getting loans. If that were to happen, it would be one less thing to blame on Bush and the blame would fall directly in their laps. Including Obama with his association with ACORN and his votes on these issues!!!!

dmk

[red states rule]

None of the Democrats want an in depth Congressional hearing into the crisis. For if they do, their role will come out in pressuring banks to give loans to people who had no business getting loans. If that were to happen, it would be one less thing to blame on Bush and the blame would fall directly in their laps. Including Obama with his association with ACORN and his votes on these issues!!!!

dmk

Dems have made it clear that the nobody will not stand in the way of their power.

It is time for the voters to send a message to the Dems in 2010