Rep. Alcee Hastings: "There ain't no rules ..."

And then of course (as Dan notes below) there was Alcee Hastings’s comment in defense of the Democrats’ approach:

"I wish that I had been there when Thomas Edison made the remark that I think applies here: 'There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.' And therefore, when the deal goes down, all this talk about rules, we make them up as we go along."

Hastings is, needless to say, a longtime member of the House Rules Committee.