Durbin aide to White House: Try using the phone

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/durbin_aide_to_white_house_try.html#more

Next time the White House wants to invite the Democratic leadership to a last-minute meeting, Sen. Dick Durbin’s press secretary, Joe Shoemaker, suggests they try calling.

In the White House’s continued effort to hold off Congress from taking any dramatic action to end the war in Iraq, the administration invited about 200 lawmakers to attend a classified video-linked briefing session with Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker this morning at the Pentagon.

The White House, however, extended the invitations by sending faxes to the office of the various senators’ general fax lines two days ago. Shoemaker said no one in the Democratic leadership—including the Assistant Majority Leader Durbin—was aware of the meeting until it was too late to attend.

Shoemaker said aides in the office poured through the hundreds of faxes they’ve received, but have yet to find the invitation.

“If they were serious, they know how to invite us,” Shoemaker said.

[aquart]

1. Serious, no. Rude, yes.

[moggie]

2. Frankly, that's pathetic on the dems' part

What, not one senator had staff capable of skimming through a few hundred faxes to highlight the ones which needed urgent attention? If my office couldn't do that, we'd get a rocket, and deservedly so.

[grasswire]

3. doesn't sound like they got one

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. EXACTLY. It's not that they missed the freakin' FAX. There WAS NO FAX TO BE FOUND.

assholes.

[libertypirate]

4. Sounds like ....

engineering a outcome, and their likey going to blame it on an underling...

It's a wonder so many blame, so many criminal acts to commit...

How does only the pro-president group get the message? Things that make you go hrrmmm....

You've got to love our Monacracy!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Why aren't the Democrats SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER OVER THIS? That SOB is suppose to be the POTUS

NOT the President to the REPUKES ONLY. WTF? Why aren't they making an issue of this? Why do they always take this shit so lightly?

IMPEACH THE RAT BASTARD!

[karlrschneider]

7. Not to defend bushco's white house, but I heard about it on the news

last night...

[Bitwit1234]

8. Bet they didn't miss the republicans.