Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Ain't it good to be alive and be a Republican in Tennessee?!
"This weekend, in the pages of the state’s Sunday newspapers, Tennessee Democrats in the state House openly fretted about how things would be under a new Republican leadership."
-- Clint Brewer, "Turnabout’s fair play for state Dems," Nashville City Paper
Republicans ain't fu**in' stupid. They - We - are fully aware of how the GOP's been skunkfully-treated in the Tenn. House since ... Victoria was Queen of England. To wit:
Naifeh has steadfastly refused to appoint Republicans as officers of committees that have any policy-making authority. (In a 1995 interview Naifeh pettily name-checked Newt Gingrich as his inspiration for the way in which he chose committee chairs, as if the administrative procedures of the U.S. House have any relevance on Nashville's Capitol Hill.) Naifeh routinely instructs subcommittee chairs to kill Republican bills, and he allows Republican bills with widespread popular support to be heavily amended in order for Democrats to claim credit. Finally, Republicans - especially Republicans who are critical of Naifeh or Democrats in general - are assigned offices in the War Memorial Building, which is uncomfortably stuffy in the summer, damp and drafty in the winter, and features drinking fountains that squirt water a dog wouldn't drink.
Democrats in the Tenn. House of Representatives have treated their Republican colleagues like little bee-yatches for many, many years. Now they want to be treated with temperance and respect. Puh-leez.
When I think about the Democrats who work in the State House and the State Senate, and for the state's constitutional officers (not to mention the Democrat officers themselves), I feel ... well, I feem plum giddy. And ain't no weepy Tennessean article going to make me feel otherwise. Indeed.
Ain't it good to be alive and be a Republican in Tennessee?!
-- Clint Brewer, "Turnabout’s fair play for state Dems," Nashville City Paper
Republicans ain't fu**in' stupid. They - We - are fully aware of how the GOP's been skunkfully-treated in the Tenn. House since ... Victoria was Queen of England. To wit:
Naifeh has steadfastly refused to appoint Republicans as officers of committees that have any policy-making authority. (In a 1995 interview Naifeh pettily name-checked Newt Gingrich as his inspiration for the way in which he chose committee chairs, as if the administrative procedures of the U.S. House have any relevance on Nashville's Capitol Hill.) Naifeh routinely instructs subcommittee chairs to kill Republican bills, and he allows Republican bills with widespread popular support to be heavily amended in order for Democrats to claim credit. Finally, Republicans - especially Republicans who are critical of Naifeh or Democrats in general - are assigned offices in the War Memorial Building, which is uncomfortably stuffy in the summer, damp and drafty in the winter, and features drinking fountains that squirt water a dog wouldn't drink.
Democrats in the Tenn. House of Representatives have treated their Republican colleagues like little bee-yatches for many, many years. Now they want to be treated with temperance and respect. Puh-leez.
When I think about the Democrats who work in the State House and the State Senate, and for the state's constitutional officers (not to mention the Democrat officers themselves), I feel ... well, I feem plum giddy. And ain't no weepy Tennessean article going to make me feel otherwise. Indeed.
Ain't it good to be alive and be a Republican in Tennessee?!
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Tuesday, November 18, 2008 
