Comments on: Will The House Honor Their Oath To Office, Or Follow The Senate’s Lead And Cave To Fear? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52959 Hmmm Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:38:29 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52959 <p>Huh. cboldt’s piece has a link to <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html" rel="nofollow">the House Clerk’s place</a>, which says this happened today:</p> <blockquote><p>6:21 P.M. -<br /> The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification regarding an executive order with respect to the Government of Syria - referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 110-95).</p></blockquote> <p>There was one of those on PAA Day back in August too. (And just moments before the news that the bridge had come down hit, I might add.) That’s just weird. Anybody here speak dogwhistle?</p> Huh. cboldt’s piece has a link to the House Clerk’s place, which says this happened today:

6:21 P.M. -
The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification regarding an executive order with respect to the Government of Syria – referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 110-95).

There was one of those on PAA Day back in August too. (And just moments before the news that the bridge had come down hit, I might add.) That’s just weird. Anybody here speak dogwhistle?

]]> By: Dismayed http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52954 Dismayed Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:49:56 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52954 <p>should have known - bmaz beat me to it.</p> should have known – bmaz beat me to it.

]]> By: Dismayed http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52953 Dismayed Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:48:57 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52953 <p>… and coddled by the weakest and dimmest congress ever.</p> <p>Hail Cesar, Senator.</p> … and coddled by the weakest and dimmest congress ever.

Hail Cesar, Senator.

]]> By: frahse http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52946 frahse Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:05:51 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52946 <p>I think it is just posturing.</p> <p>First once gives then the other.<br /> And on the next matter, it is reversed.</p> <p>Then when they speak to the voters, they say, look what I did here. <em>(But I couldn’t stop it there.)</em></p> I think it is just posturing.

First once gives then the other.
And on the next matter, it is reversed.

Then when they speak to the voters, they say, look what I did here. (But I couldn’t stop it there.)

]]> By: PetePierce http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52940 PetePierce Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:29:03 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52940 <p>Cboldt has done a <strong><a href="http://cboldt.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">FISA update.</a></strong></p> Cboldt has done a FISA update.

]]> By: sysprog http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52936 sysprog Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:19:45 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52936 <p><b>RULES COMMITTEE PUBLISHES SPECIAL RULE FOR HANDLING FISA LEGISLATION</b><br /> The Rules Committee met at 4pm today (2/13) and voted for special handling of FISA legislation tomorrow (2/14).</p><blockquote><i><a href="http://rules.house.gov/SpecialRules_details.aspx?NewsID=3224" rel="nofollow">http://rules.house.gov/Special.....ewsID=3224</a></i><br />COMMITTEE ACTION: REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE OF 9-4 on Wednesday February 13, 2008. […] It shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of Thursday, February 14, 2008, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules relating to a bill addressing foreign intelligence surveillance.<br /> <i> - - U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Rules </i> </blockquote>(h/t <a href="http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/12/amnesty_day/permalink/6526b82141d73d38a9916edf21117836.html" rel="nofollow">PowWow</a>) RULES COMMITTEE PUBLISHES SPECIAL RULE FOR HANDLING FISA LEGISLATION
The Rules Committee met at 4pm today (2/13) and voted for special handling of FISA legislation tomorrow (2/14).

http://rules.house.gov/Special…..ewsID=3224
COMMITTEE ACTION: REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE OF 9-4 on Wednesday February 13, 2008. […] It shall be in order at any time on the legislative day of Thursday, February 14, 2008, for the Speaker to entertain motions that the House suspend the rules relating to a bill addressing foreign intelligence surveillance.
– - U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Rules

(h/t PowWow)

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52935 bmaz Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:58:38 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52935 <p>You can try bmaz22 at gmail dot com (but don’t spread it around - Heh heh)</p> You can try bmaz22 at gmail dot com (but don’t spread it around – Heh heh)

]]> By: sojourner http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52934 sojourner Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:54:32 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52934 <p>BMAZ, is there somewhere I can write you?</p> BMAZ, is there somewhere I can write you?

]]> By: sojourner http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52933 sojourner Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:53:39 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52933 <p>Gosh, BMAZ, how did you know that I intended to write that? </p> Gosh, BMAZ, how did you know that I intended to write that?

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52932 bmaz Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:23:41 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/13/will-the-house-honor-their-oath-to-office-or-follow-the-senates-lead-and-cave-to-fear/#comment-52932 <p>Ah, don’t forget “and enabled by a worthless self serving complicit Congress, even the Democrats, when they had the power to stop it”.</p> Ah, don’t forget “and enabled by a worthless self serving complicit Congress, even the Democrats, when they had the power to stop it”.

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