The PI: "Since the new 'hawk' system was announced by House Republicans, we've been doing a little ornithology." - I love it.
From the 01-13-05 PI:
Our high-powered binoculars have spotted thrushes and sparrows, but no other hawks
Since the new "hawk" system was announced by House Republicans, we've been doing a little ornithology.
From what we can determine, the Georgia bird-of-prey committee operation may have no equal. In no other state legislature is a Speaker allowed the same, overt leeway to swing votes his way on a day-to-day basis.
[I guarantee there is no equal. It is dumb. Stupid. Unheard of. No logic. The Czar wants to be a dictator, and his subjects voted to allow him to be such.]
On second thought, Democrats see Republicans in the cross-hairs
The hawk system is all the talk among Democrats, mostly derisive. State Rep. Darryl Jordan of Riverdale, a history teacher, was eager Wednesday to spread the description he'd coined for GOP management: "Banana Republican."
But with Democrats a solid minority on House committees, many of them have wondered why the hawk system is even necessary.
Many Democrats — and a few moderates on the other side of the aisle — have come to the conclusion that it isn't aimed at them at all. That it's designed to keep straying Republicans from breaking ranks and brokering deals with Democrats.
Our high-powered binoculars have spotted thrushes and sparrows, but no other hawks
Since the new "hawk" system was announced by House Republicans, we've been doing a little ornithology.
From what we can determine, the Georgia bird-of-prey committee operation may have no equal. In no other state legislature is a Speaker allowed the same, overt leeway to swing votes his way on a day-to-day basis.
[I guarantee there is no equal. It is dumb. Stupid. Unheard of. No logic. The Czar wants to be a dictator, and his subjects voted to allow him to be such.]
On second thought, Democrats see Republicans in the cross-hairs
The hawk system is all the talk among Democrats, mostly derisive. State Rep. Darryl Jordan of Riverdale, a history teacher, was eager Wednesday to spread the description he'd coined for GOP management: "Banana Republican."
But with Democrats a solid minority on House committees, many of them have wondered why the hawk system is even necessary.
Many Democrats — and a few moderates on the other side of the aisle — have come to the conclusion that it isn't aimed at them at all. That it's designed to keep straying Republicans from breaking ranks and brokering deals with Democrats.
posted by Sid Cottingham | 6:05 AM
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