"Political Grandstanding"

[SHRED]

I am noticing this phrase from the RW sound machine, are you?

Now, asking for an independent Katrina commission equals, "political grandstanding".
How sick is that?

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Senate Republicans Kill Independent Katrina Response Investigation
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-2/1126708145252922.xml&storylist=topstories

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The vote:

Statement of Purpose: To establish a congressional commission to examine the Federal, State, and local response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Region of the United States especially in the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and other areas impacted in the aftermath and make immediate corrective measures to improve such responses in the future.


YEAs ---44 All Democrats and one Independent
NAYs ---54 All Republicans

Not Voting - 2
Corzine (D-NJ) Vitter (R-LA)
Vitter didn't even have the balls to vote against his Repub masters.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00229#top

[acmavm]

1. Dumbasses. Political grandstanding was visually illustrated by a

certain clown standing in front of a flood light lit church delivering a phony 'cover my ass' speech.

And then taking the lights away after the speech plunging the city back into the darkness.

[Autonomy]

2. You can't grandstand from the cheap seats

this is a Republican political smokescreen.

[Mass]

3. No surprise from him, but the so called moderate reps did not either.\nt