GOP Walkouts Out in Protest

On a prior post this morning, we commented: "This Democrat Congress’ continued mismanage of critical national security questions is beyond belief and reason. Reid & Pelosi have continued to be absolute failures as leaders. They speak with deceit and malice and are totally inept!"

Yesterday and today, House Democrats "fiddled" and allowed national security to be placed at risk. They discussed inane issues of no importance to our Nation while refusing to address FISA. Tonight they left Washington D.C for a 12 day recess,allowed FISA to expire, and placed our country at risk without the ability to legally monitor international terrorists’ calls to and through the United States. The FISA bill passed by the Senate was bi-partisan but the House leadership refused bi-partisan action. President Bush, scheduled for a trip to meet with several African leaders, offered to postpone his important trip to work with Congress on FISA. But, the House Democrat leadership refused. And to top it off, even though the House will recess for 12 days, the Democrat leadership established a devious method to prevent President Bush calling them back into session to work on the FISA bill. The Democrat Congressional leadership is having one or two members of Congress to appear every three days to call the House or Senate back into session and to then close the session. Thus, they prevent themselves from being called back to work and prevent the President from making recess appointments.

Today, the House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republicans walked off the floor of the House in protest of the Majority's refusal to schedule a vote on the bipartisan, Senate-passed bill to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) while voting on meaningless actions this afternoon. Video follows:

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