How can the current Congress meet on Jan 5th? Is it not a Constitutional requirement that the Congress first meet on Jan 3rd of the year after the election? I thought that this was part of the Amendment that moved the Presidential date from March 15th to Jan 20th.
Just remember Harry, when the Republicans are in control, THOSE RULES MAY VERY WELL STAY IN EFFECT FOR YOUR SIDE.....................
Fine, then in January 2013 when the Republicans take control of Congress and the Presidency they can ram back out all the crap that was rammed in during the Obama 4 year debacle.
I so hope they do this. In the next Congress, the Republicans have such a large majority in the House that there will be a de facto divided government. After the next election, we will most likely pick up another 5 to 8 Senate seats and the Presidency. Then we will have the votes to do what is needed.
I doubt Reid has the votes. There are a number of democrats who would worry about what will happen when the Senate changes control.
And just like usual mitch and the pubbies will be standing around scratching their balls instead of doing their 200k jobs.
Lame Duck politicians should not be empowered to “rewrite the rules” as they go out the door.
THIS is Pelosi and Reid’s “MOST ETHICAL CONGRESS EVER, MUTHERFUYER!!!”
They are scum. Socialst scum hellbent on ramming their agenda down the citizenry’s collective throat.
They should use their control of congress to freeze the president’s agenda. It takes both houses to pass a law; without the House they can’t push anything through.
So freeze everything. In fact, whatever the senate does, they should not allow one piece of the president’s legislation to see the light of day in the House.
And they should de-fund everything that has been pushed through over the last two years.
We are in revolutionary times; we have a president that doesn’t believe in the constitution and is prepared to rule without lawful authority. Nothing he wants should get passed through the House and nothing he wants should get funding.
Thus will be the greatest packing of the courts ever.
Removal of the scum they will appoint will still, however, be restricted by the Constitution.
It’s brilliant of the socialists.
This makes no sense at all. They are not going to get anything controversial through the Republican House, and they run a real risk of turning over the Senate to the Republicans in 2012. There is much to be lost and nothing to be gained by such an action.
Anyone remember “The Gang of Fourteen?”
We have the most f’d up government transition laws in the anglosphere! It’s nothing to wave the flag about or to be proud of. Just look at how American voters have been defied since Nov 2. It’s a disgrace.
Seems to me to be a great idea. Nothing can be passed without going through the House first, so the Senate will not be able to pass anymore of the DemocRAT agenda. With a lower threshold to pass the Repubs only have to get 4 Democrats on their side to pass what the House sends them. Might not be much of a problem coming up with those numbers with so many of the RATS facing a tough re-election bid in 2012.
The process of Cloture was proposed first in 1917 by none other than....
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....wait for it...(shhhhh, Glen don't tell them)
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. Woodrow Wilson
Republicans didn’t do it when they had an opportunity because those rules would have come back to bite them....these rule changes will ensure dems defeat in 2012.
Reid, at least, should have been excommunicated long ago. You cannot support baby murder and approve of homosexuality and be a Mormon any more than you can as a Catholic.
Look, grasshopper. The FR surrender monkey doom and gloom parade is unusually long tonight.
Clearly time for the 7.69 cure with a judicious application of the ground-temperature prophylactic...
Happy New Year to Harry Reid in Hell.
PING!