Posted on 07/01/2010 8:51:54 PM PDT by Lorianne
FDL has learned that in a last minute move, Nancy Pelosi sneaked language into the rule that the House is voting on tonight regarding war funding.
Embedded in the rule is the requirement that the House will vote on the deficit commission’s recommendations in the lame duck session if they pass the Senate.
The commission, co-chaired by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, is packed with members who favor the raising the retirement age to 70, means testing, and private accounts. Many also support investing 20% of the Social Security trust fund in the stock market.
It’s ironic that yesterday Pelosi sent out press releases criticizing John Boehner for expressing the very same positions on cutting Social Security benefits that Jim Clyburn, Joe Biden and Steny Hoyer have. She’s putting this language into the rule in order to deflect responsibility from herself when it comes to the floor for a vote during a lame duck session, since without her approval that could never happen.
Pelosi knows full well what the committee wants to do. The fix is in.
Happening on CSPAN now.
BTTT
Anything to steal more money from the taxpayer for their slush funds.
Why hasn’t Pelosi been arrested?
Fire Dog Lake is a leftist site, isn’t it?
They ain’t happy.
I support those SS changes 100%.
Not when they are only using the money to artificially prop up an ailing market.
I don’t understand why they don’t just let the American people know that they have stolen all the Social Security money and they don’t have any way to replace it except for taxing us again or allowing illegals to pay into the system without ever taking out.
Just WHO are the retards that haven't already figured this out?
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