Posted on 05/16/2007 11:52:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
PELOSI LOWERS THE BOOM Wed May 16 2007 14:43:59 ET
After losing a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority.
The Democratic Leadership is threatening to change the current House Rules regarding the Republican right to the Motion to Recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit. This would be the first change to the germaneness rule since 1822.
In protest, the House Republicans are going to call procedural motions every half hour.
Developing...
They don’t plan on being in the minority again - EVER.
And they will take steps to ensure this.
Who are you?
you can PM me.
The Demorats scream for fairness when in the minority and the Gutless republicans coddled them, now they have the power, and They know how to CRUSH! the opposition....
This is what the Stupid republicans get for trying to Play with Vipers.
Every day Average Joe America needs to get on the ball and vote these liars and idiots out of power. That’s the only way we’ll be able to get our country back.
No, it's worse. She already is refusing republicans access to bills in a timely manner, shutting out amendments, and the like.
This new rule would change rules that have been in place for almost 200 years, rules that the democrats had available to them but were unable to use to their advantage.
Nancy is having trouble keeping her side together the way the republicans did the past 6 years, so she has to deny the opportunity for her democrats to vote with republicans on anything.
She won because a huge percentage of posters on this forum said conservatives should sit out the election to "teach the GOP a lesson".
Great move, folks. I hope you're satisfied.
I'm still waiting for our party to take off the gloves. I suspect it won't be any time soon though, as all I can see is more and more caving in to the MoonBats.
Good
Absolutely not. Rules are rules and the RATS should adhere to the same rules that the GOP operated under with slim majorities from 1995-2006.
If Pelosi and her team cannot keep her own members on board, that's too damn bad. Given that her agenda is purported to be so popular, let the media explain to the American people why she cannot run the House. Please, MSM, explain this apparent inconsistency to us. Do tell.
Protection of minority rights in either chamber is too important from a Constitutional standpoint than to let Fancy Nancy have her way.
The GOP must raise continued Hell, and we have to help them.
>Who in the world is advising her?<
It sounds as though there has been a completed takeover of the government. How could this hairbrained woman have the rocks to pull this without a very strong backup? The Dinorats have been very brash and brazen with their rekindled power, acting extremely anti-Constitution. Acting very fascist or very communistic.
There's a sucker born every minute, and those who followed that advice are proof of that.
“Republicans have thrown the House floor into chaos...”
For the thousandth time, the GOP base did turn out last year. We lost independents 3:2, and with it the House and Senate.
Were you going to vote republican in spite of Iraq? Were you doing so just because you love the “R”, or because you thought in the end Republicans were still better for the country?
If you could figure out republicans were better, don’t you think we could convince the average voter to agree with you?
Don’t lose hope.
All this gridlock in Congress is music to a conservative’s ears.
Legislative gridlock is a good thing...a really good thing.
PING!
That depends on how they’re defining “fair and square”. Nevertheless she’s holding the gavel for now.
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