Republicans Behaving Badly (But Do you Expect Anything Different?)

(Apologies to all crying babies. You have a right to cry. The Republicans don't.)

First, they disrupted a memorial service being held in the House for Rep. Tom Lantos who died on Monday, for a procedural vote:

But Democratic aides were shocked when, during the middle of a memorial for Holocaust survivor and Congressman Tom Lantos, GOP Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart demanded a procedural vote on the floor, forcing members to leave the service early, even "while dignitaries were still giving tributes to Lantos."

Can you imagine how shocked and appalled Republicans would be if the tables were turned?

But wait, that's not all. Then they walked out of the House in protest of two debates that were ongoing:

The walk-out came as the House prepared to vote on the resolution citing former White House counsel Harriet Miers and current chief of staff Joshua Bolten for contempt of congress for failing to obey subpoenas in connection with the controversial dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and 2007.

But Republicans also protested Democrat's refusal to bring up for a vote in the House a Senate-passed bill supported by President Bush to revise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the government to listen in on phone calls without a court warrant ...

... Angry Republicans rose to accuse Conyers and Democrats of ramming the contempt resolution through Congress, and continuing to politicize the firing of U.S. attorneys while ignoring other pressing issues.

Ignoring other pressing issues? Why just yesterday, Rep. Waxman was taking on that all-important issue of steroid use among professional baseball players!

"For some reason, the majority feels that after eight months now this is a pressing issue," said Florida Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart.

Hey, wait -- isn't Lincoln Diaz-Balart the classy guy who disrupted the memorial for Lantos earlier in the day? And haven't House Democrats been trying to prosecute Miers and Bolton for the last 8 months, but the White House and the supposedly impartial Justice Department have been stonewalling? Miers and Bolton, not to mention Gonzales, should be sitting in prison right now for their role in the firing of the attorneys! And don't even get me started on Bush, Cheney, etc. The contempt that the Washington Republicans and their ilk show for the American people is sickening.

I am so sick of these people. There is a glimmer of hope as impeachment investigations begin to be talked about ... but I'm not holding my breath.