Oh, and a bunch of Republican congresscritters were whinging about legislation -- originally submitted by Pelosi in 2004 -- that would guarantee some 'legislative minority' rights. Which the Republicans basically crushed at the time, of course.

Those Democrats sure are crazy, voting on bills all willy-nilly.

One would think that that was their job. Poor, poor Republicans. Meaniehead Democrats are making them look bad.

I can't wait until Emmett finds out adorable kids are chick magnets.

One last little bit.

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‘It’s Not Whining’

Not so the Republicans convened upstairs. Waving his hands and stomping his feet, Representative Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina acted out on Wednesday what the rest of the Republican caucus must have felt. “It is so hypocritical, just on its face,” Mr. McHenry fumed.

His complaint: That Democrats, on the verge of taking control of Congress, were planning to run the place their way, driving the legislative agenda themselves without input from the Republican minority.

Wasn’t that, someone asked, how the Republicans had run Congress for more than a decade?

“We didn’t campaign on this openness,” Mr. McHenry argued, denying that he and his colleagues were just being sore losers. “It’s not whining,” he said. “It’s a matter of calling them out on their rhetoric.”

Democrats had not even taken over yet. But Republicans, suddenly facing a minimum two-year sentence out of power, coalesced around a message of kvetching.

They held up reports that Democrats would conduct their first 100 hours without allowing Republican amendments. They held news conferences to deplore the new regime, citing letters from Mrs. Pelosi from when she was in the minority, requesting a piece of the legislative action.

Missed the death of the old thread.

Blargh. Before he left, my boss told me the CIO wants me in the corporate office at 8am tomorrow to answer the phones from there. No real explanation given beyond he doesn't want the deparment empty during the all-hands meeting tomorrow. Nevermind the meeting doesn't start until 9:30. So I have to get up 4 hours early so I can make the commute to corporate to arrive 3 hours ahead of my normal start time to do something I could do better from my normal desk, just so there's someone physically in the department tomorrow. WTF?

Nothing like killing the thread with some whine.

Happy Birthday to ita.

Happy belated birthday to shrift (One of the last posts I've read so far in the previous thread mentioned it.)

They held up reports that Democrats would conduct their first 100 hours without allowing Republican amendments.

One of the pieces of legistlation they plan on enacting in their first 100 hours includes minority party protections.

They're not allowing any Republican amendments in the first hundred hours so the Repubs can't scuttle any of the legislation with trick amendments.

I'm not so much with the caring about the Repubs' problems at this point. Talk to me in a hundred hours and I'll take a moment to consider giving some thought to caring, depending on if they're actually getting screwed over, or if their just trying to upset the apple cart.

In more alarming news, I think my tv is threatening me. It keeps blipping on me like it does when the antenna gets a good static discharge. This would be bad. Ugly Betty is new! New last of OC! New CSI! BAD, people, BAAAAAD.

Sorry to be late with the sympathy, Kalshane. That really does suck, but then we've known your employer is run by asshats, or worse, clueless asshats. Like the asshat that called my project lead at 3:05 PM last Friday -- we were closing at 3 for the holiday BTW -- and demanded that somebody be called in out of vacation to prepare something for him.

Not that he could have been reached, even if she'd wanted to try. I've told her to stop answering her phone when its time to put on her coat, but does she listen to me?

Shit, Hec is on a ROLL today. You made me laugh about 15 times, so thank you, m'dear Smay!

we were reporting exciting evenings?

mine was get through adjustment period of coming home, dinner, homework with mac, bathe mac, read bedtime stories, lay down until mac is asleep. Now I get to log on and do a couple hours of work.