This is how they work!!

I happened to stumble across this today on YouTube and it made my blood boil so badly I knew I had to post it. It's old, from two years ago, but it shows the arrogance of the Democrats and Jack Murtha in particular. You'll know the part that made me angry at about the :38 mark.



This came right after over 100 Republicans in the house walked out because of the Democrats flaunting the rules. This is an article written by U.S. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite from Florida called "WHY I WALKED OFF THE HOUSE FLOOR LAST NIGHT":

Washington D.C. — U.S. Representative Ginny Brown-Waite (FL-05) today released the following statement about unprecedented Democrat actions on the floor of the House last night. The Majority's power-grab shut out of legislative debate and decision making Members of both parties who believe we should not give taxpayer funded benefits to illegal immigrants. Rep. Brown-Waite joined virtually all the Republicans in boycotting the final vote on the Agriculture Appropriations bill in protest of Tammany Hall style vote fixing.

"This body is named the people's House for good reason. We were elected to represent the people, not partisan political leaders here in Washington, D.C. Any time the majority, at the whim of unnamed political leaders, ignores the will of the body and arbitrarily overturns a vote of the House, it deserves to have Members walk out of the chamber.

"The House vote last night was clear; no money will be spent on illegal immigrants. Rather than accept the will of the House, Democrat leadership broke more than 200 years of precedent and allowed Members to change votes after the measure had passed by 215 to 213, including at least 14 Democrats who voted to do the right thing, purely to defeat the clear will of a majority of this body. This action is worthy of Fidel Castro or Joseph Stalin, not the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

"Along with my Republican colleagues, I walked out of the chamber to protest the outrageous behavior of the Democrat majority. Their desire to give benefits to illegal immigrants at the expense of law-abiding Americans is so strong that the Pelosi Power Police corrupted the vote process. I guess if things don't go their way, the new Democrat majority just throws the Constitution out the window and makes the rules up as they go along."

The vote in question was a motion to recommit that would have prohibited funds in the agricultural appropriations bill going to illegal immigrants. At the time when the vote had been closed by the Speaker Pro Tempore, the Republican motion had the votes needed to pass. After the vote was closed, the Democrat majority allowed solely Democrat Members to change their votes and alter the outcome of the vote. These unprecedented controlled vote switches showed the Party in control's true colors.

This pattern of abusive behavior was also exhibited earlier this week when Democrat leaders passed legislation to cut nearly $200 billion in Medicare funds and that included language allowing illegal immigrants to receive taxpayer funded health care benefits.

"Democrats led the fight to cut $194 billion in Medicare funds for our nation's seniors this week, while at the same time giving children of illegal immigrants health care benefits. Talk about being out of touch with mainstream America. When the Democrat led Congress hands out benefits to illegal immigrants at the expense of our most vulnerable population, our senior citizens, that is a sad commentary indeed on the state of affairs in Washington, D.C."

Here is video of the incident if you'd like to see it. It's pretty long and most of it is a lot of yelling. From the research I did, the chant you hear at one point is from the Republicans to the Democrats: "SHAME".



This is how these people are. They don't care one whit about the rules, only in getting their agenda pushed through. This was TWO YEARS AGO!! Now they have the Executive Branch to go along with the Legislative. Of course they're going to ram as much down our throats as they possibly can! THIS HAS BEEN THEIR TRACK RECORD FOR A LONG, LONG TIME!!