Oh, boo hoo, wah wah wah… Go have a cup of two-face and a good cry, hypocrites.

House GOP shut out despite promises

WASHINGTON - It was 2004 and Democrats were into their 10th year as the minority party in the House when they proposed a bill of rights to ensure their participation in the democratic process.

The GOP ignored them.

Now Republicans, newly demoted to the minority, say they are the ones suffering abuse despite repeated Democratic promises that theirs would be a more open, democratic and inclusive rule.

“It seems,” said Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, “over the last three weeks that the more we reach out and offer our hand of bipartisanship, (the more) it is slapped away.”
… Whining Republicans GOP Crybabies

“It is tough to be in the minority, isn’t it? I feel your pain,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.,

He said that with a smile to Republicans while pointing out that the late changes came as a request from Boehner, the House GOP leader.
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Democrats were sensitive to the fact that not a single Republican amendment had been allowed over the first three weeks of the session. So they ruled a GOP amendment OK to debate - even after the sponsoring lawmaker decided to withdraw it.

Boehner then introduced a resolution criticizing Democrats for trying to force the amendment. That effort failed by a party-line vote.

The House long has earned a reputation for being far more partisan than the Senate. In the Senate, the minority’s power to stall legislation requires the majority to reach out if it wants to pass bills.

In the House, Democrats lorded it over Republicans for 40 years before Newt Gingrich led the GOP to victory in the 1994 elections.

Republicans pledged not to treat Democrats as they had been treated. But former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, adopted a strategy of pushing ahead on legislation by demanding loyalty from Republicans and shutting out Democrats.

Source: Yahoo! News

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