Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:10:37 PM
There was an exchange on the Senate floor between Senator Jim DeMint (R) and the presiding officer, Senator Kay Hagan (D), in which hypocrisy is shown to its finest.
Here is the background:
You have to wade through a few minutes of rather dry exposition from
Senator Jim DeMint before getting to the real meat of the exchange
between DeMint and the presiding officer, Senator Kay Hagan. DeMint
wants to offer an amendment requiring a GAO audit of the Federal
Reserve to an existing bill requiring other GAO audits of other
agencies, notably the National Transportation Safety Board. Democrats
object under Rule 16, which restricts amendments according to
germaneness, and DeMint goes to town
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/08/video-demint-exposes-parliamentary-hypocrisy-in-dem-controlled-senate/
In the exchange, the presiding officer, Senator Hagan reveals that the Democrats have broke the rules repeatedly, but they still want the Republicans to abide by the rules that they, the Democrats, continue to not follow.
About the fifth minute the exchange begins: