Pelosi denies being partisan

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/14/pelosi-denies-shes-partisan-accuses-gop-process-politics/

3/15/2009 12:35:50 PM

Didnt she turn out the lights and order all cameras turned off when the repubs were trying to derail another govt giveaway?

Then McCain flies in and stabs them in the back. (my timeline might be off a bit)

3/15/2009 12:49:20 PM

That sounds about right. I don't even think the Democrats like her.

3/15/2009 12:51:21 PM

didn't you learn anything from 2001-2006?

its only "partisan" if you disagree with the majority

3/15/2009 1:28:40 PM

terrific thread

3/15/2009 1:30:36 PM

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"Didnt she turn out the lights and order all cameras turned off when the repubs were trying to derail another govt giveaway?"

I thought she did that when the GOP threw that hissy fit over oil drilling last year?

It sounds contrived and cliche, but neither Pelosi nor her opposition in the American right have any real "ideas" right now.

3/16/2009 9:23:45 PM

i, too, am glad that fox news is paying attention to whats important right now

3/16/2009 9:27:28 PM

Unintentional comedy for today: foxnews link

3/17/2009 12:32:27 PM

Tucker Carlson denied being partisan recently.

Now THAT is comedy.

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"It sounds contrived and cliche"

Man, does it ever.

It also sounds stupid and uninformed.

[Edited on March 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2009 2:03:58 PM

Because Republicans have never done anything partisan

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"Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one. "Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway." Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out. "He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room."

and

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"just before midnight on July 17th, 2003, when Thomas dumped a "substitute" pension bill on Democrats -- one that they had never read -- and informed them they would be voting on it the next morning. Infuriated, Democrats stalled by demanding that the bill be read out line by line while they recessed to a side room to confer. But Thomas wanted to move forward -- so he called the Capitol police to evict the Democrats."

and

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""I remember one incident very clearly -- I think it was 2001," says Winslow Wheeler, who served for twenty-two years as a Republican staffer in the Senate. "I was working for [New Mexico Republican] Pete Domenici at the time. We were in a Budget Committee hearing and the Democrats were debating what the final result would be. And my boss gets up and he says, 'Why are you saying this? You're not even going to be in the room when the decisions are made.' Just said it right out in the open.""

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/worst_congress_ever/page/2

[Edited on March 17, 2009 at 2:17 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2009 2:16:21 PM

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"Because Republicans have never done anything partisan"

Hi. I see you are familiar with the strawman.

3/17/2009 3:19:49 PM

Hi. I see you aren't.

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"The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following pattern: 1. Person A has position X. 2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X). 3. Person B attacks position Y. 4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed. "

His point wasn't necessarily helpful to the discussion, but it wasn't a strawman. Maybe closer to an ad hominem? Appeal to common practice?

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-common-practice.html

[Edited on March 17, 2009 at 3:43 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2009 3:41:31 PM

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"i, too, am glad that fox news is paying attention to whats important right now"

dont even try

.. keith olberman[/end]

3/17/2009 5:26:08 PM

^^

Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem-tu-quoque.html

3/17/2009 5:38:48 PM

^^olberman is not news he is commentary, the article is "news"

3/17/2009 6:04:01 PM

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"Man, does it ever. It also sounds stupid and uninformed."

so i'm uninformed since i don't agree with you, thanks dood.

3/19/2009 7:40:50 PM