Comments on: Chaos In Texas House Over Speaker Fight

Embattled GOP Leader Faces Skirmishes From "Insurgents" Within Own Party To Remove Him From Post

[randalds]

Yep in 2008 when the people of this country dump the Republican party for good. It's a good laugh now, seeing all the rats leave the sinking ship...
Posted by tribe at 10:31 PM : May 26, 2007

Here's hoping they all drown when they hit the water. Must be hard for them to swim with all of the Bullsh*it still inside of them.

[libsarenuts]

The real fight is still coming.

[libsarenuts]

You people on the left, of nearly everything, crack me up more each day. Whining and ******** about anything Republican. Here's the deal, Bush is still president...and there is nothing you or your do nothing congress can do about it.
Also, if Craddick was doing something illegal he would not be allowed to stay up there. The same goes for George W. You and the left stream media have been trying to derail out government for 6 years. Thank God (you've heard of him, right?)you are not running things. HAHA

[lochlan-2009]

These people are killing each other for a seat on the gravy train. The corrupt have seen there is no organised resistance from society that can't be thwarted with a little bit of modern technology and police force, and they are ripping at each others throats to get their own little piece of the "free" country.

[cantshutup]

INSURGENTS???? ***??? I think that term is highly inappropriate and that speaker in texass SHOULD have been successfully PHYSICALLY REMOVED and that's how we ought to go about it in the white house too!!!

[vincan-2009]

Signing statements are what Bush signs after he signs a bill into law. In the signing statement he states that he will not follow or obey the law he has just signed. This will also become an issue for the president to explain.

As for the Texas situation it is coming down just like the whitehouse. The crooked republicans are in a corner and the hopefully honest republicans and democrats are tired of the crooks getting away with everything.

[stanimal7]

Not allowing any of the house members to speak if they disagree with you is not only unAmerican, it smacks of dictatorship. Americans have had enough of this kind of high=handed imperialism from the cadre of Republicans that are trying to usurp all power in the United States. It's time to take back our country and vote them all out of office. They are traitors to the Constitution they swore to uphold.

[cfin5]

bobnjersey.... Not sure what "signing statements" means. But it sounds like holding a politician to his promises leagally after they get elected. If so, that rocks! These guys get in office and after one or two years in Washington (elsewhere) you don't know them anymore. So unfair to the voters!

[wiredwilly]

Now Republicans and Democrats are " insurgents " ?
Seems to me Texas needs a little more Thomas Jefferson and a little less Adolph Hitler.

[misha131]

I suggest many of you read other accounts of the events that transpired this evening. The Parliamentarian and Assistant Parliamentarian resigned over this situation. The reason for the resignations because they had informed the Speaker of the House he had to (no option) recognise any member desiring to make the privelege motion that would have led to his removal. His refusal to recognise any member to make the motion is a violation of the controlling rules of parliamentary procedure.

[troyboi22]

***,

Molly Ivins would have squealed with joy over this whole scene. God!! i can here her now.

[troyboi22]

***,

Molly Ivins would have squealed with joy over this whole scene. God!! i can here her now.

[bobnjersey]

[Mr. Craddick is the HOUSE SPEAKER, the others are not. If you can not participate according to the RULES, put your thumb in your mouth and then go home.......and don't let the screen door smack your behind on the way out either. We must live by the rules and not our popular feelings at the time. That creates anarchy.]
[Posted by cfin5 at 04:58 PM : May 26, 2007]

i'll bet the members wish they had 'signing statements' ... then they could make their own rules?

[snowbrd7]

Ya know this happened once in my condo assoc. The president was so obsessed with the rules of conduct that we could never get anything done. Every single meeting was the same as the last while the whole complex was falling apart. Everytime we'd try to bring something up he'd deny the motion because we weren't doing it "right" and then we'd have to wait 'till the next month to try to bring up the issue again trying to do it in the correct manner to satisfy the little dictator. This went on for years.

[cfin5]

Mr. Craddick is the HOUSE SPEAKER, the others are not. If you can not participate according to the RULES, put your thumb in your mouth and then go home.......and don't let the screen door smack your behind on the way out either. We must live by the rules and not our popular feelings at the time. That creates anarchy.

[mikealford3]

"showdown between Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick and some GOP and Democratic insurgents."

I all this time I thought the "insurgents" were in Iraq. No wonder we can't get anything done, we don't know who the heck we are fighting.

[vancouverboo]

Texas: Rich and Stupid, Thieves and Liars.

The home of our president.

[randalds]

George Bush must be loving it too. This is how he wants America to work with him in charge.
Posted by realpatriot1 at 09:23 AM : May 26, 2007

Amen. It's this kind of scummy bottom of the barrel politics that Bush likes. Acting as if he's a king and even going so far as to hold our troops hostage to get his way. The one who shouted "This is America. We don't do things like this here" USED to be right, but now under the control of the neocons who believe their "leaders" to be all powerful this is, sadly, how we do things in America now.

I want my country back for these usurpers!

[agnim]

"Is Craddick a MONARCH?
Posted by homespunlady at 01:32 PM : May 26, 2007"
The tin horn dictator is earl of Craddik, emphasis on the dik part. LOL

[feelfree1]

Re: "Embattled GOP Leader Faces Skirmishes From 'Insurgents Within Own Party To Remove Him From Post"

If I were an unnamed official, speaking on a condition of anonymity, I would have to conclude that it is 'believed' that these %u2018insurgents%u2019 are 'linked' to 'al-Qaeda'. This attack has all of the 'hallmarks' and 'fingerprints' of such an attack.

For all of you out there who may have doubted that %u2018they%u2019 would follow us home, forcing us to fight them 'over here', I'll bet that you are feeling mighty silly now!