Unbelievable. Facing a 215-213 victory in the House for the Republicans, Democrat leadership called it a 214-214 tie and threw the vote out the window. This is an unprecedented trampling of Democracy, and there's absolutely nothing being done about it. CBS calls it chaos:

The rancor erupted shortly before 11 p.m. as Rep. Michael R. McNulty, D-N.Y., gaveled close the vote on a standard procedural measure with the outcome still in doubt.

Details remain fuzzy, but numerous Republicans argued afterward that they had secured a 215-213 win on their motion to bar undocumented immigrants from receiving any federal funds apportioned in the agricultural spending bill for employment or rental assistance. Democrats, however, argued the measure was deadlocked at 214-214 and failed, members and aides on both sides of the aisle said afterward.

One GOP aide saw McNulty gavel the vote to a close after receiving a signal from his leaders – but before reading the official tally. And votes continued to shift even after he closed the roll call - a strange development in itself.

A key thing to remember is that details remain fuzzy, but there's a lot more to this case. An example is, the vote was removed from the record, and neither the Republican win OR the tie stood:

When Democrats finally moved to consider the spending bill as the last vote of the night, furious Republicans left the chamber en masse to protest the maneuver. The House eventually recessed at 11:18 p.m. But Republicans quickly discovered that there was no longer any record of the controversial vote and immediately charged Democrats with erasing the bad result.

“Obviously, the Democrats don’t want to stand up against illegal immigration – so much so that they’re willing to cheat in order to win a vote,” Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said in an e-mail. “They’re desperate – and it shows.”

The official House website did not show a record of the vote as of 1 a.m. Friday.

This is a lot bigger than a simple illegal immigration vote. Democrats destroyed the fabric of Democracy in the House, and simply erased a vote that didn't go their way. I have no clue how they intend to spin a complete breach of the American people's trust. From House Minority Leader John Boehner:

“A majority of the House last night voted to pass this Republican proposal, which deals with an issue of great importance to American taxpayers. But the Democratic leadership, which wanted a different outcome, overruled the vote and declared that the motion had actually failed. In our view, this was an astonishing and unprecedented abuse of power, defying the will of the people and trampling on the very fabric of American freedom and democracy.

NixGuy has video. This is an issue that needs play amongst the blogosphere and in the media. This comes as President Bush is ready to force the Congress to stay in session, and as Congress's approval rating hits a ridiculous low. The American people have unbelievably low trust in the President to handle this war, and unbelievably lower trust in our new Democrat Congress. Democracy in the House is being stabbed in the back by Speaker Pelosi and her minions.

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