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Originally Posted by Mavdog

this isn't good news for either political party, nor is it good for the nation imho.

Agreed...however I expect it if was dubya in the 3% poll range, that we'd see it lead on every newscast I expect. Haven't seen this one blared that much. Hmmm...

But...this IMO is a pretty direct reflection on how the country thinks the dems are doing as leaders of congress. In only about half a session, they've managed to alienate just about the entire country. 97% is a pretty dang high number.

I don't give them marks that high, they've been doing nothing but trying to get perp-walks and surrender since they've been in office. Nor have they done much of anything that they promised on the side of ethical behaviour.

Plus one of their head dudes (Murtha) is now earmark champion, it takes a very dedicated effort to beat Robert Byrd out, that's for sure.

Then we hear the crap out of Schumer that he.....well.....just doesn't think that a republicans judicial nominees even need to be considered.

PLUS---- We find out that the dems decided to gavel a vote, re-open it and change that vote because they lost. Yea....honesty in guvment, they name is democrat.

UPDATE: Congress has been forced to create a special bi-partisan committee to investigate themselves. It's actually getting pretty hilarious. They've been issuing subpoenas they know won't be respected, investigating everything under the sun...Might as well investigate themselves. Quite rich..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080300878.html

The House last night unanimously agreed to create a special select committee, with subpoena powers, to investigate Republican allegations that Democratic leaders had stolen a victory from the House GOP on a parliamentary vote late Thursday night.
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While Democratic leaders hoped to leave for their August recess on a wave of legislative successes, the House instead slowed to an acrimonious crawl that threatened to stretch the legislative session into next week.

The agreement to form a special committee was extraordinary. Such powerful investigative committees are usually reserved for issues such as the Watergate scandal and the funneling of profits from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s.

"I don't know when something like this has happened before," said House deputy historian Fred W. Beuttler. He called the decision "incredible."

UPDATE: This sounds like what happened, the dems were trying to beat the clock and their gavel-keeper was a little too fast on the switch. Instant replay showed him to have gaveled a republican win. So the republicans should insist on keeping the gaveled vote, nothing else will do.

McNulty had his eyes on the electronic scoreboard, which still read 214-214. But almost as soon as the gavel came down, the scoreboard registered Mario Diaz-Balart’s vote, pushing the tally to 215-213. The scoreboard showed those numbers and the word “FINAL.”