House Screaming

They're not quite banging their shoes on the bannister (or the barrister) yet, but voting at the House today turned into a screaming match. The Dems were angry at the House leadership for holding a 5-minute vote open for 50-minutes so that they could turn around the winning votes. More at Think Progress. "Not a proper parliamentary inquiry!!!" (via TPM)


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Submitted by crazymonk on Fri, 10/07/2005 - 2:18pm.

if anyone has seen and remembers the immortal SNL parliament skit "Questions for the Prime Minister," just try not to laugh when some house dem asks, "parliamentary inquiry: will I make my plane flight this evening?" The similarity is just eerie.

flea | Fri, 10/07/2005 - 9:12pm

oasis rules!
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96pmajor.phtml

jon may | Sat, 10/08/2005 - 11:25am

what does "9-5 fortnight" mean?

crazymonk | Sat, 10/08/2005 - 11:29am

I wonder if he made his flight.

Incidentally, I think the calling the House a "banana republic" because they allowed more time for a vote is a little bit over the top.

DoorFrame | Mon, 10/10/2005 - 7:47am
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