Posted on 02/15/2011 4:06:52 AM PST by tobyhill
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and defenders of the health care reform law unearthed an unexpected and temporary ally Monday night: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC).
Politics makes strange bedfellows. But few bunking arrangements are stranger than this.
To be clear, there aren't many in Congress who have more antipathy for the health care law than Foxx. In fact, at a meeting of the House Rules Committee Monday night, Foxx could barely hide her contempt for the health law.
"It is an abomination that this bill was passed," scoffed Foxx.
But for a few moments, Foxx, and all seven of her Republican colleagues on the Rules Committee formed a short-term vanguard to preserve the touchstone of the Democrats' legislative agenda last year.
Here's what's going on:
On Tuesday, the House plans to debate a bill to fund the government through September. Republicans aim to use the measure to pare at least $100 billion in spending out of this year's budget.
There is no provision more onerous to conservatives than the health law. So if the GOP is set to cut spending, why not shave the money set aside to implement the health law, too?
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) planned to do just that, which would in turn cripple all government operations devoted to executing the health law. In other words, if there's no money, the government can't carry out the policy.
And that's when King ran into a buzz saw run by Virginia Foxx and the rest of the Republicans on the House Rules Committee.
All of those Republicans want to upend the health care law just as much as King does. But not at the expense of corrupting House rules that govern how to handle the spending measure on the floor.
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The Republicans were given the majority in the House specifically to repeal Obamacare.
They would do well to not lose sight of that fact.
Democrats use the rules to get whatever they want.
Republicans use the rules to protect whatever the Democrats want.
Same stuff, different day.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
So they are afraid to bend the rules for a law the Dems were ready to ‘deem passed’? Figures. And they wonder why they keep losing elections.
Says who?
If they change the rules before they vote then it’s not breaking the rules.
This is a shell game with the GOP hiding behind the same rules they could change.
It’s not even bending the rules since they have the numbers to change the rules first.
What do you mean it wasn’t passed by usual means?
The time being taken is the time required for the new house to understand the power that landed on their lap like a hot little bitch, ready to go.
Power is never relinquished without outright violence or imminent recognizable viability of such projection. Never. Ever.
Ask Mubarak.
Throw them out.
That’s right. The rules are whatever the Republicans say they are.
And whatever the House rules are, they ain’t Holy Writ.
The Democrats play this game with bayonets. The Republicans use spaghetti noodles.
These are the Republican House Rules Committee members:
http://rules.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=3&RSBD=4
David Dreier, CA Chairman
Pete Sessions, TX Vice-Chairman
Virginia Foxx, NC
Rob Bishop, UT
Rob Woodall, GA
Richard Nugent, FL
Tim Scott, SC
Daniel Webster, FL
How much pull would the chairman have in this? I don’t trust him simply because he’s a member of this merry band of RINOs:
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/index.php/ElectedMembers
They will find a lot of anger for these shenanigans. A lot.
Just what the hell are they thinking?
I’m getting on the phone dammit.
Part of me is like....
Oh my here we go with this ....”We’re taking the high road,” junk again. We’re Republicans and we play by the rules....
if it was such faux integrity ....
A Nation of Laws is what we’re supposed to be. The Courts have ruled this healthcare monstrosity unConstitutional.
If it is unConstitutional then it can’t be funded.
That should be our emails, faxes etc. to those members of the rules committee.
Heck...can it even be in the budget bill to begin with at this point?
...and the criminal democrat party laughs at the unbounded stupidity demonstrated by the “opposition” to socialized medicine.
I must take some action here. There will be a ton of phone calls made today. A ton.
What does this mean? Is there some principle here?
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