Posted on 11/09/2010 10:34:54 AM PST by Andrea19
...While it is not unusual for lame duck sessions to deal with routine, noncontroversial bills, or to legislate in times of national emergency, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid are convening congress with the explicit intention of ramming their noxious initiatives through while they still have the votes to do so. They are relying upon the votes of their colleagues who will not be returning next year due to massive public distaste for these very schemes. These defeated representatives are the walking dead, rising once more from the political graves they dug for themselves to feast upon the tax-dollars of the living. On November 15th, less than two weeks after their “demise,” they will return for the lame duck session becoming known as the “Zombie Congress.”
The coming Zomb-gress raises the danger that Americans could awake on Thanksgiving morning facing a newspaper full of putrid laws...
Read more: http://www.atr.org/zombie-congress-staggers-back-washington-a5596#ixzz14oGZnykI
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How many rat-corpses would have to join the Republicans and stay away to make that happen?
Can the dems spell ‘Congressional Subpoena’
How about ‘Contempt of Congress’
We need a constitutional amendment to the effect “No incumbent whose reelection has not been certified by their respective Secretary of State shall be permitted to vote in a lame-duck session”.
I suspect many of the long termers that were defeated won’t want to soil their nest for 2012. I don’t see them cooperating.
They’ve got “grief counselors” coming in to treat them. I don’t know what stage of it they’re in presently; most likely anger.
2. Cap and Trade (aka Massive Consumer Tax Initiative)
3. Individual Retirement Account Conversion (aka Union Pension Benefit Guarantee Fund)
4. Value Added Tax (aka Miscellaneous Cleanup of Taxpayers' Extra Money Initiative)
My bet is two of the four pass before the real Congress convenes.
This is not about a difference of political opinion. It’s a fundamental battle between Good and Evil. Unfortunately, Obama’s and Pelosi’s side still retains enough power to continue to damage our country, which seems to be their goal.
If I had just lost my job due to my support of the house speaker, I sure would not be in a hurry to help her along anymore! Give San Fran NAN the finger for what she did to you DEMS! She KNEW her seat was safe, so she SACRIFICED ALL OF YOU BLUE DOGS TO FULFILL her selfish, supreme ego and goals...
If I had just lost my job due to my support of the house speaker, I sure would not be in a hurry to help her along anymore! Give San Fran NAN the finger for what she did to you DEMS! She KNEW her seat was safe, so she SACRIFICED ALL OF YOU BLUE DOGS TO FULFILL her selfish, supreme ego and goals...
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