Looks like we have Romper Room on Capitol Hill.
Childish Democrats actually changed the locks to keep Republicans out of a conference room.
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) locked Republicans out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee room to keep them from meeting when Democrats aren’t present.
Towns’ action came after repeated public ridicule from the leading Republican on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), over Towns’s failure to launch an investigation into Countrywide Mortgage’s reported sweetheart deals to VIPs.
For months Towns has refused Republican requests to subpoena records in the case. Last Thursday Committee Republicans, led by Issa, were poised to force an open vote on the subpoenas at a Committee mark-up meeting. The mark-up was abruptly canceled. Only Republicans showed up while Democrats chairs remained empty.
Republicans charged that Towns canceled the meeting to avoid the subpoena vote. Democrats first claimed the mark-up was canceled due to a conflict with the Financial Services Committee. Later they said it was abandoned after a disagreement among Democratic members on whether to subpoena records on the mortgage industry’s political contributions to Republicans.
The prime targets of the Countrywide Financial scandal, of course, are Democrats, namely Sens. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, both of whom received sweetheart mortgage deals from the financial giant.
The children running the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee perhaps need their blankies and pacifiers or maybe a timeout is in order. They definitely need their diapers changed, because you know what they are full of.
