Two Democrats got into a verbal altercation — and according to one a physical one — on the floor of the House on Thursday night over an appropriations earmark one was seeking.She wants to steer money to a training center in L.A. named for her. There's a rule against steering money to places named for the person seeking the earmark. Right. That's why Charlie Rangel was able to steer $1.9 million to a center named for himself at CUNY.
After the House floor had largely cleared following a series of votes, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) split apart from a heated conversation and began yelling at one another.
“You’re out of line,” Waters shot while walking down toward the well.
“You’re out of line,” Obey shot back before turning and walking away.
But then Obey stopped, turned back toward Waters, and shouted: “I’m not going to approve that earmark!”
Obey turned away, but Waters went to go huddle with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She could be over heard telling them: “He touched me first.”
Now Waters is complaining that Obey pushed her. Oooh! Send him to the principal's office. I'm sure Principal Pelosi will deal with him. Of course, if this were truly middle school and not just a political approximation of it, the surrounding congressmen would have thrown down their bookbags and swarmed around Obey and Waters changing "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Now that would have been a C-Span session to watch!
As Glenn Reynolds writes,
The country’s in the very best of hands.
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TERM LIMITS! Or we could just handout hammers to all members of Congress along with a note about who is backstabbing them on their favorite earmarks.
Now if it was choreographed by Jerome Robbins that would be pretty neat. But the opening shot of a bunch of geriatric pols climbing over a chain link fence might take days and several casualties.
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