Posted on 02/04/2009 12:19:39 PM PST by Lorianne
Congress just started the 111th Session just four weeks ago, and already some Democrats have had enough of Nancy Pelosi’s ham-handed tactics. A rebellion has begun to brew among moderates in Pelosi’s caucus that wants a return to “regular order”, in which the committees return to their normal process of crafting and modifying legislation instead of a select group of elites ramming it down their throats. They may draft Steny Hoyer, the Majority Leader, as their savior:
A group of more than 50 House Democrats has penned a letter to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) imploring him to “restore this institution” and see that the House returns to a “regular order” process of legislating.
The letter, signed by a large number of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the centrist New Democratic Coalition, has not yet been sent. Members are still gathering signatures in an effort to send the strongest signal possible to all top House Democrats that the caucus is up in arms over the top-down method of legislating employed by Democrats since late last year. …
Since last year, many senior House Democrats — many of them subcommittee chairmen — have grown overly frustrated with how only small and select bands of legislators have been responsible for writing bills, such as the $700 billion Wall Street bailout as well as much of the $819 billion economic stimulus bill.
Democratic leaders have acknowledged that the “regular order” process of methodically developing and writing bills in subcommittees and committees has been abandoned recently. But they have defended the handling of such sensitive and important legislation by only an exclusive group of leadership and senior lawmakers as a necessary tactic during exceptional times.
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Its always fun watching liberals eat their own. Now lets see how long it takes for Nancypants Pelosi to react in exactly the wrong manner....
We’re gonna need a lot of popcorn!
We’re gonna need a lot of popcorn!
I’m sure Collin Peterson from NW Minnesota is one of them. One of the few Democrats worth a $$!&#!
I guess having huge majorities in both houses and having the White House at the same time is pretty heady stuff.
The top leadership simply can not resist the opportunity to “Really Run Things”
These are exceptional times.
Ironic, isn’t it...these Dems must feel a twinge of guilt for talking the bribes and grease they do when someone else is apparnently doing all the work.
As someone who actually fell for the PUMA gag the Dems pulled on us just before the election, I will NOT be fooled again.
That party sticks together, no matter what.
I don’t know what the agenda is behind this particular story, but you can be sure that this is TOTAL BS.
Always remember, Dems stick together no matter what.
I’m not sure there is that much corn in the world!
I wondered how long it would take them to get enough of her!!!
To paraphrase: The Democrats are Revolting!
Don’t know if anyone is listening to the Gibbs press briefing. We are in big trouble, folks. These people are totally incompetent.
SCOTUS needs to check this Birth Certificate question in order to save us.
OMG, this guy has just engaged in gobbilty gook.
If only a "select group of elites" is responsible for legislation, then only the elites need to be paid off in order to influence the legislation. This bothers the regular Congressmen who are thus shut out of the graft process. This pleases the graft providers, since they have fewer people they need to bribe.
Nancy sure makes it easy for Repubs AND Dems to look good!
heh heh—
This could be the fastest implosion after a victorious election in history. Obama’s reeling, Cabinet nominees are withdrawing, the “stimulus” is a joke and has fallen below 40% support, Congress is coming apart at the seams, Rush and Hannity are forming a formidible Republican resistance, and even Peggy Noonan is getting tired of the Obama hype.
Ha!
SnakeDoc
No way. The Congressional Republicans are STILL pantywaists.
From your lips to God's ears.
uh— that was my point...
Nancy makes idiots, fools, and spineless cowards look good....
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