Oh, and by the way, as long as we're on the subject of double standards, Time Magazine did it again this week, allowing Colorado rep Tom Tancredo to backpedal on the statement he made about bombing Muslim holy sites, a courtesy the magazine doesn't give to Dems of course ("but I wasn't talking about nukes, honest" - well, that makes what Tancredo said only slightly less idiotic than it really was).Hypocrisy in the House
The U.S. House of Representatives covered itself with shame by once again violating procedure during the vote on the CAFTA free-trade pact.
The House records members' votes for 15 minutes. That time limit was once considered virtually sacrosanct. When the Democratic majority in the 1980s once kept a House vote open for an extra 10 minutes to gather enough votes to win, the outraged Republican minority, led by whip Dick Cheney, assailed the Democrats with profanity. Where is the Republican anger now, when they are in the majority and have made a mockery of House rules by holding the vote-recording open for an additional 45 minutes to gather enough votes for passage of CAFTA? Previously, they kept the vote on the Medicare prescription drug program open for three hours so that their side would prevail.
Such rank hypocrisy should not be tolerated by the voters.
Jeremy Johnson
Malvern
For the record, here is what Tancredo did say (and believe me, if Fox reported this, then Tancredo is really dead to rights).
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