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/\/\-[]-[]-S-E » Democrat http://amoose.psoplayer.com/blog An exploration of the creative process with technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:31:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Protest at the House of Representatives http://amoose.psoplayer.com/blog/2008/08/04/protest-at-the-house-of-representatives/ http://amoose.psoplayer.com/blog/2008/08/04/protest-at-the-house-of-representatives/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:15:59 +0000 amoose136 http://amoose.psoplayer.com/blog/?p=14 Last Friday the Republican party was presenting a bill to allow offshore drilling. They were about to start a debate or vote when the Democratic speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, in order to avoid the vote, called a vote to adjourn the house early for a five week break. Since the house is controlled by Democrats, it won by one vote. This is surprising considering all but 4 of the republicans (195) and 16 democrats voted not to adjourn. Full stats as recorded by the house clerk can be viewed here. The Republicans, shocked to see that those in favor of adjourning wouldn’t even have a debate on the subject, stayed in the room discussing the bill anyway. Pelosi then sent the media out, and turned off the lights, microphones, and cameras. One Democrat was heard saying “You’re not covering this, are you?” to the the media.

Needless to say, not very many media agencies have reported on this topic. Freedom of the press indeed.

The Republicans then opened up the room to outside citizens and got megaphones to continue talking and giving speeches, urging Pelosi to call a vote. They ended that day in a round of “God Bless America.”  Today, they continued their protest. Below is one of the very few videos collected. Sit tight folks, it’s a revolution and it could get interesting.

  • You can see photos at flickr here.
  • You follow some of the Republicans on twitter here and here for the latest about “The Boston Tweet Party” (referring to the use of twitter).
  • You can find the Republican leader’s blog about the protest here.

Updates I’ve found:

  • At 2 pm today CNN braved up enough to report on the topic.
  • Pelosi didn’t want drilling but did want to open up the national oil reserve.
  • “I love this. Congress can be so boring.  …This is a kick.” said Congressmen Shadegg.
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