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Obama - The Post-Partisan President
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Originally posted by shockallOriginally posted by kcshocker11Not trying to talk smack! Just shinning a little light into dark corners. Thank you for your concerns! :D 8)I have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
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Re: Obama - The Post-Partisan President
Getting back on topic, how can this happen given the sheer force of Mr. Obama's post-partisan, ultra-transparent, Nobel Peace Prize style of omniscient governance?
We were ensured that His arrival in DC signaled the end of partisan politics. It's well beyond January 20 and the partisanship is worse than ever. Is it another Messianic broken promise?
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives, ever the rowdier and more populist of the two chambers of Congress, has been the scene of incessant partisan warfare in 2009, as each party appears to be in a near-constant state of outrage over the behavior of the other.
The picture got uglier this week when Democrats on a House committee changed the locks on a hearing room door in retaliation for an embarrassing video posted online by panel Republicans. What started as a dispute over an oversight probe blossomed into a mini-melodrama, with each side accusing the other of petty and childish behavior.
This latest blow to interparty relations started last week in the Rayburn House Office Building.
Last Thursday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was set to hold a routine business meeting. Before the session, its ranking Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, made clear that he planned to call for the panel to subpoena Bank of America for documents related to Countrywide Financial Corp.' s infamous "Friends of Angelo" VIP mortgage program.
Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., have gotten negative publicity for having received mortgages through the program, named after former Countrywide chief executive Angelo Mozilo. Committee chairman Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., has also acknowledged receiving a Countrywide mortgage, though he says he got no special favors or VIP privileges.
When Thursday's committee meeting began, however, the Democrats were absent, and Republican members said they waited for more than half an hour before being told the session had been canceled because of scheduling conflicts. Democrats, meanwhile, were meeting in a private room behind the hearing room.
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