Posted by
Sgt Relic on Saturday, August 02, 2008 6:46:45 AM
I am sure that we are all aware that the Congress, exhausted from doing absolutely nothing, has taken an early recess. A five week recess mind you, not the simple 15 minutes you remember from grade school. Any business left undone? Pretty much everything.
Yesterday, in a overt display of arrogance the Speaker, Red Nanny (Marxist-CA), dropped the gavel, turned out the lights and cut the feed to C-Span without bringing drilling to a vote. That's right! The Nanny of the House thought it best that the people's representatives not be allowed a voice or a vote which might interfere with her plan to "save the planet" and continue her book tour.
To their credit 22 Republicans remained, ordered up pizza, welcomed in the public and gave their speeches in the dark, sans microphones, until the building closed. These members are worthy of the name representative and I will list them in a future post. For now, here is an offering I thought appropriate to the occasion. So, with apologies to the Pythons and one of my all time favorite movies "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" I present "The Ballad of Red Nanny". (based upon Sir Robin's minstrel's song, those with coconut shells can furnish your own acommpaniment.)
Bravely bold Red Nanny fled from D.C..
She was not afraid to fly, O brave Red Nanny.
She was not at all afraid, to be sly in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Red Nanny!
She was not in the least bit scared, to be turned out in the fall,
Or to have her minions turn out the lights, and cameras one and all,
To end her day in a sneaky way while slipping down the hall
And to thumb her nose at the people’s plight ,
brave, brave, brave, brave Red Nanny!
Her party smashed and it’s power cut off
And her office removed and her gavel be gone
And her district be raped as the prices goes up
And her name be as mud and her record be nine.
O brave, brave Red Nanny!
Brave Red Nanny ran away,
Bravely ran away, away.
When drilling for oil reared its ugly head, she bravely turned her tail and fled.
Yes, brave Red Nanny turned about
And gallantly, she chickened out. Bravely taking to her plane,
She beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Red Nanny!
She is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and b*ggering off
And chickening out and pi$$ing off home,
Yes, bravely she is taking her ball home,
Not so brave, Red Nanny!
The Speaker demonstrated very clearly yesterday exactly whose country she thinks this is, and it ain't ours!
Update! Proving once again the power of the blogsphere RedState has video from the House floor during the revolt. See it here: http://www.redstate.com/diaries/jeff_emanuel/2008/aug/02/looking-back-on-the-house-gop-sit-in/
NEW UPDATE! This is a list of participants from the minority leaders website that shows a few names missing from the previous list.
Reps. Brian Bilbray, Gus Bilirakis, Rob Bishop, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, John Boozman, Kevin Brady, Paul Broun, Henry Brown, Michael Burgess, John Campbell, Eric Cantor, Shelly Moore Capito, John Carter, Tom Cole, Mike Conaway, John Culberson, Charlie Dent, Mary Fallin, Jeff Fortenberry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Wally Herger, Pete Hoekstra, Duncan Hunter, Steve King, Dan Lungren, Don Manzullo, Kevin McCarthy, Thaddeus McCotter, Devin Nunes, Mike Pence, Chip Pickering, Todd Platts, Ted Poe, Jon Porter, Tom Price, Adam Putnam, Bill Sali, John Shadegg, John Shimkus, Adrian Smith, Mike Turner, Tim Walberg, Greg Walden, and Lynn Westmoreland.