Posted on 02/16/2011 5:29:43 AM PST by Conservative Vermont Vet
Edited on 02/16/2011 6:15:08 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and defenders of the health care reform law unearthed an unexpected and temporary ally Monday night: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC).
Politics makes strange bedfellows. But few bunking arrangements are stranger than this.
To be clear, there aren't many in Congress who have more antipathy for the health care law than Foxx. In fact, at a meeting of the House Rules Committee Monday night, Foxx could barely hide her contempt for the health law.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but does not each Legislative Session—as has been the norm forever--adopt their own “Rules” based upon who is in the Majority?
You would think someone has suggested they (like Dear Leader and the Dems have) ignore or usurp the Constitution as opposed to a simple granting of a “Waiver.”
SHEESH!
Moreover, like the State Run Media is NOT going to pillory, impugn, denigrate and attack the R’s no matter what they do?
I doubt that most of us who worked to change control of the House in our favor intended the Pubes to “Make nice-nice” and "go along and git’ along” as opposed to kicking some butt and not bothering to take names as they dismantled some/all of the Community Agitator’s abominations.
IF, as has the last Court Decision suggests, O’Bozzo’s “Death Care” is Unconstitutional, is there any reason to worry about a minor “Waiver” in the “Rules” for crying out loud, if the House can “Defund it?”
It’s enough to make make a person want to turn to the demon rum, so early in the day! lol
My head is exploding this AM, too much insane news, and now this!
Grasping DEFEAT from the JAWS of VICTORY!!!
Apparently some RePUBICans failed to learn the Lesson of 2010. Hope the rest of the TEA PARTY has taken notice of this.
Why dont they just pass a resolution saying that any law passed “outside the rules” is null and void. Rules are rules, right?
For us, rules are rules.
For them “more of a guideline really”. Like the Pirates code.
I think a lot of the problem is that many of these representatives have been popular all their lives. They were elected to student councils in high school, on the football team or cheerleading squad. They have sought, and received, attention from others since childhood. They have learned not to do anything that would reduce their social standing.
Now they are in Congress, having won the ultimate popularity contest, and they don’t want to lose the acclaim.
And now the media would be mean to them??? Oh, no! We must appear to be open-minded and flexible!
It is all about popularity, about being invited to the right parties, about having the right friends.
We need to look at candidates and ask if they have been one of the chosen ones all their lives... and not vote for them.
I called Sessions last night. Should we call Foxx? What the hell is going on.
Strip this woman of all committee assignments and stick her in the smallest, closet sized office you can find.
the GOP came to box. The dims came to street fight
So long as I think of the GOP as the other big gov, big debt, big tax party......I’m never disappointed.
The Gutless Old Party strikes again.
Who can claim surprise?
We can tell Democrats to respect the Constitution, but they don't care. It does no good. But if we can make it clear to the Republicans that they must support limited government or lose our support, they might actually listen.
Plan on these clowns being responsible for losing in 2012.
Gutless, spineless wonders.
A pox on both their Houses.
“Ms.” Foxx is surely no Jesse Helms. NC can no longer pick decent leaders. Jesse was the last shining light from the Tarheels. Republican primary voters in NC are not what they were in March 1976, when they rescued Reagan.
Give her a ring and a piece of your mind. I will.
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I think you have nailed it. We need to eliminate people like that from the Congress. We need CITIZEN legislators who want to go do their stint, then return to their lives.
Most TEA Party challengers get nowhere in Republicaqn primaries because primary voters think they are required to rubberstamp the incumbent. Even in DE, when the TEA party choice prevailed in the primary, she did not defeat an incumbent, at least technically. Primary voters are truly a confused lot.
For those who voted GOP hoping they’d get something other than the same old BushIDoleBushIIMcain mush this time...
Suckers.
The GOP is not a conservative, free-market, limited-government party. It only plays one on TV.
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