Would you believe that Democrats in a House committee locked the Republican members of that committee out of the meeting room? No, I am NOT kidding...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102204442.html
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 (Calif.), 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.
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.
A Republican aide videotaped Democratic lawmakers leaving that gathering through a back door. The GOP interspersed that tape with footage of empty chairs from the main hearing room, and posted the video on the committee's minority Web site (and YouTube), set to the tune, "Hit the Road, Jack."
The majority was not pleased.
On Monday, panel Democrats had the lock changed on the door leading from the GOP's office space into the main hearing room. They did so, Towns' office said, because Republicans "don't know how to behave."
So, Democrats want to ignore promises of bipartisanship and meet without any Republican members present... that's unethical and only borderline legal. The GOP retaliation was immature and childish. But locking the minority party out of a meeting room? If that behavior isn't illegal, it should be! Otherwise, all the Dems have to do is lock the GOP members out of Congress, pass all the bills they want, and completely ignore the way this country is supposed to work.
Are you STILL glad the party that engages in these underhanded tactics holds a majority in both houses of Congress?
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