Rethugs double-cross Kent Conrad AGAIN-- makes me sick!

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

Yet more proof that, just when you thought they couldn't outdo themselves, the Rethugs stoop even lower:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/15/15275/440

Kent has been put off, deceived, cheated, thwarted and attacked all year while trying to support American farmers against corporate rapacity. On Tuesday, he'd just about had enough, and he introduced an amendment to meet these objectives when the veterans' appropriations bill had come up. It slowed the vote, and Bill Frist and other Republican leaders finally reached a compromise with Kent: Withdraw your amendment today, let's vote on the veterans and military bases bill, and then we'll immediately get to the farm bill on Wednesday, where we'll consider your amendment.

Kent agreed to the terms of that promise, and so withdrew his amendment on Tuesday, in good faith.

So on Wednesday, what do the Republicans do? When it comes time to introduce the farm bill as promised, Frist and his fellow idiots refuse to allow the farm bill to even come to the floor! THE RETHUGS DOUBLE-CROSSED KENT IN PLAIN SIGHT, RIGHT TO HIS FACE I didn't think even the Rethugs were capable of something like this, but I guess what should never underestimate the extent of the Republicans' mendacity. They lied right to Kent Conrad's face-- explicitly making an agreement with him in return for Kent withdrawing that amendment on Tuesday, then blatantly reneging on their side of the bargain the next day!

We can't just let this go unpunished-- if anything this even deserves a nice, loud, humiliating protest in front of Capitol Hill to demand the farm bill be taken up.

If nothing else, please call your Senators (especially if you have a Republican representing you) and tell them, in no uncertain terms, that there must not be one more minute of delay on the farm bill and no more double-crosses. Demand that the farm bill be taken up as the very first order of legislative business, and call out to make sure that they don't try any more cheap delays, schedule changes or anything else, to block this bill from coming to the floor. Let them know that we'll be taking names of any Senators who try to pull a fast one here or introduce any more delays. The bill and Kent Conrad's amendment must be taken up, and until it is and the bill has been fully debated, the Republicans must now be allowed to displace it with any other business. It's despicable what the Republicans are trying to, even as lame ducks-- let's stand tall and fight this!

[LittleClarkie]

1. You'll have to forgive them. They're a tad tetchy since last Tuesday

They're getting their licks in while they can.

[aquart]

3. Licks? Nail their tongues to the floor.

Their mothers and fathers failed to teach them honor, or respect of others and the constitution of the United States. If they pull their tongues away from the nail, their tongues will be appropriately forked thereafter.

Torture is legal now. Cruel and unusual punishments are next.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

8. Yeah, much like spiteful losers just willing to cause damage

I can't imagine this would be helping overall Senate relations in what has otherwise been reputed to be a very collegial institution of government.

[SharonAnn]

2. They do this all the time. I remember a Sunday morning news show

interview (with either John McCain or Ted Kennedy), where he said (regarding the same kind of deceit) that "no one in the legislature had lied to him before" about a legislative issue. he said "He looked me in the eye and he lied to me. It's not something I'll forget."

And I remember thinking that if someone of that stature and that many years of experience had never been lied to like that and was shocked by it, then things really were different now.

[Demit]

5. Kennedy, when Bush promised to fully fund No Child Left Behind, and then

didn't request the full amount in his budget. Bush flat out lied.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

6. Yeah, I recall something like that.

IIRC there was also an example with John McCain and in fact, that helps to explain one of the reasons for his bitterness toward many of his Republican colleagues. Whatever his other flaws, McCain is a proud soldier and to him, veracity is one of the highest virtues. To lie to him in such a fundamental way, and especially to do so right to his face, was considered almost unforgivable.

That's what angers me so much about the stunts pulled against Kent Conrad. Compared to so many of the other examples of Republican chicanery, this one strikes me as one of the very worst, even for them. To lie to a guy right to his face, and blatantly break the terms of an agreement like that is just unacceptable in any sort of civilized society.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. The Republicans figure we can't do anything to them now

We've already put an end to their permanent majority.

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

7. That's why we need to make sure

that we'll do more hard-hitting damage to them in the next election if they screw over Kent Conrad like this. We'll also hit them where it really hurts-- cut off the spigot to their corporate cronies if they continue with this.

[devinsgram]

9. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but

hasn't anyone by now realized you can not trust them in any respect. The repugs do not know how to tell the truth. I learned that when Clinton was in office. They would say that all he had to do was to come clean and that would be the end of it and we could go forward. Yeah, right. He finally came clean and they crucified him. No thank you on trusting them. Once burned, twice shy.

[wellstone dem]

10. so the repubs want ND blue?

When the dems take over they can help move this state blue.