TAP has a great article refuting the Republican congressional claim that it's okay for them to run amok ethically because the "Democrats did it first" after they had been in power for forty years. Author Sam Rosenfeld helpfully provides a list of the things Democrats "did not do" even after decades of power:
They did not sic the Capitol police on a group of the minority members attempting to confer in an empty room, as the Republican Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas did in 2003. They did not exclude non-pliant Republicans from negotiations on conference reports, as Republicans now do to them as a matter of course. Their leadership did not make it an explicit rule never to put bills to a vote that lack support from “a majority of the majority” -- that is, a majority of the members of the party in control -- as Speaker Dennis Hastert has done.
How about we take this and run with it? Hit that comments button and post things you can think of that Panhandle-area Democrats have not done. This is just for fun. Rumors and half-truths welcome! (Just make sure your postings are at least half true . . . )
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