MD GOP Wimps Out

11:03 pm EST March 31st, 2006 | Democrats | 3 Comments

Looks like they’re all the same around the country

Republicans in the Maryland Senate unplugged their computers, picked up their belongings and marched out of the chamber yesterday afternoon in protest of a frantic push by Democrats to pass a stack of hotly contested bills.

Infuriated members strode up the marble State House staircase to the offices of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), who applauded them for the rare walkout and declared that four years of “monopoly frustration has come to a head.”

The display came on the most tense day of the 2006 General Assembly session, with just 90 minutes remaining for Democrats to get legislation to the governor’s desk and still leave time for a future override vote, should Ehrlich choose to veto the bills.

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3 Responses to “MD GOP Wimps Out”

  1. pgg2 says:
    March 31, 2006 at 11:03 pm

    Ah, what fond memories this brings. I am filled with warm, fuzzy love for those brave Democrats from Texas, boldly retreating from certain defeat to their hotels over the Oklahoma and New Mexico borders.

    It’s the same all over the country, all right.

    Cry me a river.

  2. Rheinhard says:
    March 31, 2006 at 11:03 pm

    Oliver, you left out this bit…

    There was a failed filibuster on the schools bill, a bitter parliamentary challenge of the House speaker on the measure to reconstitute the state’s Public Service Commission and a seemingly endless succession of procedural contortions over the others.

    Hmmm, what was that Republican mantra again, I seem to recall…. Oh yes!

    UP OR DOWN VOTE!
    UP OR DOWN VOTE!

  3. Rheinhard says:
    April 1, 2006 at 1:04 am

    Well, with the cheif architect of the disenfranchisement/power-grab (Tom Delay) that they were protesting against soon to be convicted (alongside the latest of his aides) for corruption, and hopefully the court review throwing it out once and for all, we can but hope the vile redistricting against which they were fighting will soon be a thing of the past.

    And it is at least worth pointing out, if we’re comparing these incidents, that I don’t think the Maryland Democrats are going to try to abuse law enforcement and Dept. of Homeland Security resources to forcibly bring the wayward Repubs back into the chamber.