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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris on January 06, 2009, 11:31:41 PM
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Pelosi Reverses House Fairness Rules (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30143)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.
After decades of Democrat control of the House of Representatives, gross abuses to the legislative process and several high-profile scandals contributed to an overwhelming Republican House Congressional landslide victory in 1994. Reforms to the House Rules as part of the Contract with America were designed to open up to public scrutiny what had become under this decades-long Democrat majority a dangerously secretive House legislative process. The Republican reform of the way the House did business included opening committee meetings to the public and media, making Congress actually subject to federal law, term limits for committee chairmen ending decades-long committee fiefdoms, truth in budgeting, elimination of the committee proxy vote, authorization of a House audit, specific requirements for blanket rules waivers, and guarantees to the then-Democrat minority party to offer amendments to pieces of legislation.
Pelosi’s proposed repeal of decades-long House accountability reforms exposes a tyrannical Democrat leadership poised to assemble legislation in secret, then goose-step it through Congress by the elimination of debate and amendment procedures as part of America’s governing legislative process.
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Welcome to
Democracy Despotism courtesy of the Democrat Party.
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c-span is about to become must watch tv.
:popcorn:
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Sigh. I'm not surprised. The most open and ethical congress hasn't been able to get an approval rating above single digits. Going this is certainly going to help. NOT!
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After this, they'll be lucky to have an approval rating in positive territory.
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After this, they'll be lucky to have an approval rating in positive territory.
But we'll never know cause the MSM will never report it.
Get ready for four years of "Dems can do no wrong" reporting
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...and we don't call him the Big Zero for nothing. The One needs to have a little talk with Bella Pelosi and let her know who's about to be in charge. If he doesn't, she'll be running things and he will truely be the "house :censored: ".
:censored: idiot.
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...and we don't call him the Big Zero for nothing. The One needs to have a little talk with Bella Pelosi and let her know who's about to be in charge. If he doesn't, she'll be running things and he will truely be the "house :censored: ".
:censored: idiot.
You're assuming that she's doing this without his knowledge and/or approval.
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This is how they will sneak anti gun and ammo provisions into obscure bills.
All the things that the left wants but knows the public won`t support will find their way into legislation.
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You're assuming that she's doing this without his knowledge and/or approval.
Actually I just don't give him credit for being smart enough to know what's really going on.
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I Pegged the O man as going to be a puppet President ever since he won the election. No Idea who the puppet master(s) are but they are out there with no shortage of likely suspects.
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But we'll never know cause the MSM will never report it.
Get ready for four years of "Dems can do no wrong" reporting
Maybe not...The MSM *needs* dissension. They'll attack the dems pretty soon, I think.
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Maybe not...The MSM *needs* dissension. They'll attack the dems pretty soon, I think.
If it bleeds, it leads. That has always been true. If the MSM needs to, they'll create the story. In this case, I think they'll cover things of interest to conservatives, just to sell papers or ratings for TV news.
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c-span is about to become must watch tv.
:popcorn:
Wouldn't surprise me if the Botox Queen tried to shut that down as well.
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Wouldn't surprise me if the Botox Queen tried to shut that down as well.
That won't make a lot of DUmmies very happy, since it seems a good majority of them subsist on nothing but Cheetos, CSpan, and welfare checks.
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What goes around comes around. I just hope that in that distant day when the GOP regains the House, they don't go all gushy and bipartisan, but feed these bastards what they're trying to give us, with interest.
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i view it as let them have their rule changes, then when unemployment is up, inflation is up, and people are pissed off, there is no way anyone can point at a republican... even though they will try. the argument would be "how can we be the problem? we can't even propose alternative solutions"
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They'll still try to blame Bush for "getting us into this mess in the first place". Even though we know better, there's still a lot of gullible lunkheads that will believe it without question (namely the Flavor-Aid drinking, zombified, cult-like Obama followers).