Posted on 04/29/2008 8:17:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Congress: On the heels of a rules change that iced the Colombia free trade treaty, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is scrapping the appropriations process in a new war funding bill. Something new and anti-democratic is afoot.
She's altering and contorting long-standing congressional rules to get her agenda through instead of trusting the voting process. This gives clout to special interests and makes her powerful as a political boss, but it undermines Congress as an institution, making voters the losers.
Pelosi's latest move is to link a $108 billion supplemental bill for U.S. troops in Iraq to an extra $70 billion in pork spending in a tacked-on economic stimulus package. It's a bad idea, one that wouldn't make it through a congressional vote. So she's getting around that by changing the rules.
Instead of submitting the package to a subcommittee vote, moving it to a full committee, and allowing debate until consensus is reached, Pelosi's skipping the appropriations process altogether. This has been done only a few times in the last 20 years — mostly in times of national emergency, like 9/11 and Katrina.
Now, it's just business as usual with Pelosi in power.
Pelosi seems to have been emboldened by her success in halting Colombia's free-trade agreement this month — again, not through votes, but by changing house rules to end the 90-day requirement to schedule a vote.
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You go Nancee, teach them Rino’s a lesson!
The problem is that the American sheeple don’t recognize Pelosi or know anything about her. Most still think the Republicans control Congress and can’t wait to vote Democrat to “show” the GOP.
You know the whole country suffers because of her and you support her? You are nuts
you hafta be grateful that it’s taken her this long to get around to a power grab!
she and harry reid have been rather useless to the dems.
Nothing new for a 'Rat. Now all she needs is a Rat president and the ruling triumverate will be complete.
yitbos
[Nothing new for a ‘Rat. Now all she needs is a Rat president and the ruling triumverate will be complete.]
And the Constitution to be shredded!
Barlf might be nuts, Kaslin, or maybe he/she/it might just be hoping for increasing contradictions, as Lenin & Co. did in WWI Russia. Looks to me like things will have to get worse before they get better. For the great unwashed to take notice, Nancy, Harry, and/or Hill/Bama will hafta work some real liberal Democrat miracles, the kind that sound wonderful to the stupid, but actually make money disappear out of people’s pockets.
Gas price controls, “free” health care... something big and showy like that, eh?
And this surprises who???
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Excellent, too! I’ve never seen that one before.
None of the democrat congress, Lieberman an exception, will ever admit we are winning in Iraq. Their hatred for President Bush will never permit them to support our country and our military as should be done in time of war. Do they ever mention there has not been another attack on our country because of the policies put forth by this administration and congress? No. I even believe the democrats want another 911 to happen just to lay the blame on the Bush Adm. Had they worked with this president from the beginning this war in Iraq would have been over some time ago. I think the democrats are pure evil. 10 posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 9:33:10 PM by BARLF [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
Anyone remember 2004?
The theme here on FR was,"Teach the Rino's a lesson, vote em out" That happened and this is what we got. My state lost a good conservative senator in that election and I have not forgotten all the people on this forum that supported, "Teach the Rino's a lesson".
Mojo you go pound sand.
See post # 15
I appreciate your comments on the 27th of April, however it would have helped if you had an (s) after your remarks of today the 29th of April. You have have no home page I could can tell what you are thinking unless you are explicit about sarcasm
That gave you no cause to say what you did about donating to FR.
liberal democrats;
snarky, puerile, sophomoric, adolescent, arrogant, totalitarian wannabes who will sacrifice the “masses” at the altar of democrat dictatorship.
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