Democrats Lock Republicans Out Of Room To Prevent Them From Issuing Subpoenas In Countrywide Scandal

Proof • October 21, 2009

And not just figuratively either. They literally changed the locks on the doors.
So, uh, this is that new spirit of bipartisanship being ushered in by Nancy Pelosi’s “most ethical Congress ever” right?

House Republicans have complained all year that Democrats have locked them out of the legislative process.
On Tuesday, those complaints took a turn from figurative to literal.
A spokesman for House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Democrats changed the lock on the door from the GOP’s meeting room to the main committee chamber, and informed Republicans that Democrats would retain the only set of keys.
Republicans say the move was retaliation for a behind-the-scenes video they shot that showed committee Democrats leaving their meeting room through a back door 30 minutes after they canceled a hearing that the majority said conflicted with Members’ schedules.
Before that hearing was terminated early, Issa was scheduled to call for a vote on whether the committee should issue a subpoena for records and documents relating to the Countrywide Financial VIP mortgage program. Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.) obtained mortgages from the program, prompting Issa and other Republicans to question whether Dodd and Conrad obtained below-market rates because of their positions. However, the Senate Ethics Committee cleared both lawmakers in the matter.

As I’ve posted before, the Countrywide scandal is far from over. The Senate Ethics Committee did issue a ruling exonerating Senators Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd from any wrong doing, but that committee didn’t release any of the exculpatory evidence they used to make their decision. In fact, a lot of evidence from Countrywide (now owned by Bank of America) was never subpoenaed including recordings of conversations with VIP loans recipients like Senator Conrad which have now been destroyed.
Rep. Issa and other Republicans want to subpoena these records. And Democrats are stifling their efforts through childish tactics like ending meetings early and now actually locking Republicans out of the room.
It’s, well, pathetic.

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http://Array sayanything-2407

All he does is cause trouble, issue fake reports and play politics.

And yet Rob still keeps you around…..
sayanything-4625

It’s of course all crap. The “No” party yoyos are using every trick in the book to block any of the progress they promised their constituents.

You have overwhelming majorities. Stop blaming us for your incompetence. Your owwn Congressmen are looking at their constituents and realize that it will be suicide to vote for this crap. That’s not our fault.

Locking desperate Republicans out of intelligent debates would actually be a good way to prevent them from continuing to screw up our country.

For there to be a debate there has to be two sides. For there to be intelligent debate, neither side could be Democrat. So you’re out on that score.
notgoingtotakeit

Break the door down, drag them out to the capital steps and hang the bastards. I’ve had enough of this crap.
sayanything-42

Break

The

Door

Down

.
sayanything-130

Dino, Thanks for trying to shed some light on all this babbling from the Right.
It’s of course all crap. The “No” party yoyos are using every trick in the book to block any of the progress they promised their constituents.
Locking desperate Republicans out of intelligent debates would actually be a good way to prevent them from continuing to screw up our country.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

When Oswaldo looks to Dino for “light”, you know that the blind are leading the blind over on the Far Left Wackadoodle Wing! Too funny!
sayanything-7715

I like many am very hopefull. Right now I think we could run Mikey Mouse against Pomerory and bounce him.
sayanything-9974

To paraphrase Senator Durbin from Illinois – this is the type of behavior you would associate with the people that brought the world concentration camps and goolags. The lefties don’t hold up to sunlight and exposure very well. That is why they have such a weak relationship with truth and integrity. The truth getting out would be a big problem for them.
jimmypop

good for them. i hope the gop is taking notes about how to lead. KICK THE CRAP OUT OF THE OTHER SIDE. i dont want uniters. i want dividers.
brain trust

The Dems are acting like a bunch of children. I hope next November a bunch of them will pick up their marbles and go home. Congress has become such an embarrassment. No wonder 84% of the population would just as soon send everyone home.
sayanything-463

Do they wear pins or something that say Dem or Repub? Otherewise it could be hard to tell them apart.
sayanything-7715

The socialists are in a panic to get things done by early spring. They are counting on 51% (or in the case of Minnesota 50.001%) of the populous to forget by next November and return the statists into their Ivory Tower.
robert108

IMO, gg, it’s more than that. At some point, despite all the MSM propaganda, Obama will emerge as a one-term President. At that point, he will become a lame duck, and the rest of the Dems will avoid him like a leper. He will be stopped in his tracks, politically speaking, and his Marxist policies will die on the vine. He will still technically be President, but he won’t be running anything but his mouth
Then, we can have a real economic recovery.
robert108

Good one, suite! One small note; it’s “flouting the Constitution”, not “flaunting”.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Ironic that they call themselves “Democrats” and can’t abide by democratic processes!
sayanything-106

another plan that will back fire on the left tards.
robert108

The name for this type of behavior is “Stalinism”. The Dems have been Stalinist for quite some time.
robert108

Thanks for revealing your support of Stalinism, Os! Especially after all the squealing from the left about “bipartisanism”. Another leftie lie exposed.
sayanything-7406

It seems the only way they can maintain their agenda is to break the law.
sayanything-4416

Issa should be ejected. All he does is cause trouble, issue fake reports and play politics.
sayanything-8436

About what one would expect.
sayanything-4808

What part of breaking federal law, congressional rules, flaunting the constitution and challenging the authority of the citizen electorate from whom all power flows are you not grasping?

Thank you for admitting your contempt for the people of the USA, the constitution, rule of law, basic logical propriety, and decorum and courtesy. You can sit next to Dino.

I’d wear a hazmat suit btw. Friendly advice.
sayanything-2361

First thing I thought. How about an open door debate policy implemented. Right. Now.
sayanything-4808

No no no… That comes after the boil-over… What is needed now is for whatever patriotic intelligence people we have left to bug, record and release everything that the Dems are saying in private. Every last embarrassing thing, straight to the Internet.

Oh, but that would suck for them… One can always dream.
sayanything-1317

So you’re ok with the Democrats rigging the game? Oh right, of course you are. You favor giving ACORN unfettered reign over elections. What a surprise you’re in favor of this!
sayanything-4808

The honorable course then is to prove that clearly and properly. Not that you and honor have ever been accused of being cozy.

Changing the locks and refusing to allow elected members of congress access to the keys is a violation of federal law, congressional rules, and basic ethics and propriety not to mention a slap in the face of those voters who elected those they are locking out.

I firmly expect that you will entirely fail to see the impropriety of this and even believe that complaining about it short of violent action would be insufficient, were the positions reversed and your (currently) beloved Democrats locked out by Republicans.

Your hypocrisy is well known to one and all Dino, so keep posting if you like, but no one but you believes a single thing you do.
sayanything-3444

Adolescents, locking themselves in the bathroom – and probably doing what adolescents do behind locked bathroom doors. Why do we send such juveniles to DC?
bikebubba

Ya gotta love guys like Dina and L.Harvey Oswaldo responding to childish behavior on the part of Democrats as if it were the GOP that were being childish, ignoring the fact that they were encouraging such behavior when the GOP had a majority in Congress.

Hopefully voters remember in 2010….

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