I'd laugh, if I didn't feel so much like sobbing into my pillow these days...
Posted on 04/28/2009 4:59:25 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: now we don't have to 'explain process' @ 7:44 pm by Eric Zimmermann
Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties will make it easier for Democrats to move forward with their agenda, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday.
Specter's switch will give Democrats 60 caucus members in the Senate (assuming Al Franken wins his legal battle in Minnesota). That is enough votes to end debate on a bill and overcome Republican filibusters.
"Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process," Pelosi told CNN's Candy Crowley.
Specter has said that he will not be that "automatic 60th vote."
Pelosi added that Specter's decision should prompt some reflection on the part of Republicans.
"You know what, they're going to have to do their own self-analysis," she said, adding that Democrats had worked harder to be bipartisan. "Hopefully now [Republicans] will also extend the hand of friendship so they can work together in bipartisan way."
Pelosi also defended her claim that she was never informed that waterboarding would used on suspected terrorists. She added that her Republicans critics might be revealing classified information by revealing more specifics from the interrogation briefings.
"[F]or some reason the Republicans, while I am barred from talking about what goes on in meetings and I could be charged for revealing classified information, they seem to feel at liberty to talk about everything that went on at every meeting as they saw it," Pelosi said.
The Speaker indicated that she won't push for an independent "Truth Commission" to investigate Bush-era interrogation policies, instead ceding to President Obama's desire to leave the matter co Congressional committees.
"It's pretty clear–the president has been pretty clear that he doesn't want any Truth Commission on Torture and so has Harry Reid," she said, "so the attention to that will probably be done in a more regular order way by the committees in the House and in the Senate." Pelosi added that she would personally prefer a commission.
That is one of the scariest photos I’ve ever seen here! We really are not that far away from this, are we?
*SHIVER*
That was a stellar day, wasn’t it? And I don’t even live there. ;)
I'd laugh, if I didn't feel so much like sobbing into my pillow these days...
I expect we will see some supreme court appointments shortly.
“Very exciting, very exciting for the American people, because now we can get things done without explaining process,” Pelosi told CNN’s Candy Crowley.
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I hope that evil bi*ch dies in her sleep tonight.
You do understand how Goodwin’s law works don’t you?
Actually, it is quite frightening for the American people, because the Democrats now have the ability to rocket us forward into pure socialism, while establishing one-party rule and extreme authoritarian policies.
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Actually if they try to violate the Constitution and move us toward Marxism, they leave MILLIONS of Americans no choice and I fear there will eventually be a massive tax revolt or civil war.
Not so fast, this is the 111th Congress! The rat's will simply vote to waive the rules and "without objection" proceed to tickle our tonsils from our collective anus.
Not fast enough.
“We have no fillibuster”
This scam about the filibuster is still going on circa 2004.
The dems wanted the 60 vote rule to cut off debate when they were in the minority in the Senate. It is not a filibuster.
A filibuster occurs when one, just one senator takes to the floor and holds it by talking endlessly about anything they want.
See “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/
The Communist Oligarchy owns America, its debt, its wars, its unemployment, its failing economy, and Republicans need to make sure the hope and change morons know who to blame. Things are going to get very nasty.
LLS
I hope the American public gets excited enough to take to the streets. In 1918, the Russian Revolutionary government didn't have the explain process any longer as later Nazi Germany didn't.
Yup, now the Dems can drive their 2009 Agenda in a New Direction unimpeded. Off the cliff..
That is one of the scariest photos I’ve ever seen here! We really are not that far away from this, are we?
*SHIVER*
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Only if we allow it and submit.
‘kay. Call it xlib’s corollary: the more one invokes Nazis in describing one’s opponents, the more it sounds like Kos & DU with their Bushitler crap.
I’d laugh, if I didn’t feel so much like sobbing into my pillow these days..
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I know the feeling. As much as we hate to do it, it looks like we may leave the country we love and live permanently elsewhere. The deal breaker will be health care. Socialized, we can’t have private health care, we are ready to leave in 30 days.
Maybe not: I thought it was Godwin’s law.
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