Posted on 07/29/2014 4:20:45 AM PDT by servo1969
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington, D.C.'s non voting delegate to Congress, has a novel definition of the separation of powers. Becoming exasperated at House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's insistence that a subpoena to David Simas, director of the administration's Office of Political Strategy, should go forward, Holmes Norton dressed down Issa by claiming the Oversight Committee, which oversees the executive branch, didn't have the right to investigate the White House.
Washington Examiner:
"You don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend. That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government," Norton said during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.
It was, to put mildly, a significant departure from the more traditional liberal stance that openness and transparency are must to prevent abuses of power by government officials. Instead the leading advocate for statehood for the District of Columbia literally argued that even the congressional committee charged with oversight shouldn't be asking questions in the first place.
She made the comments while protesting the committee's Republican majority for voting to ignore a claim by the White House that David Simas, director of it's Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, was immune to a congressional subpoena to testify. Republicans believe the office is being used a political campaign operation, a violation of federal election law.
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I am immensely happy this woman, nor any other DC Congressional representative cannot officially vote in Congress.
Dear God, they really do think Obama is King.
Give DC to Maryland and be done with it.
I wonder what the intellectual giant would say if George Bush were president.
Sounds like Morrisseys latest song...
“World Peace Is None Of Your Business”
World peace is none of your business
You must not tamper with arrangements
Work hard and sweetly pay your taxes
Never asking what for
Oh, you poor little fool- oh, you fool
World peace is none of your business
Police will stun you with their stun guns
Or they’ll disable you with tasers
That’s what government’s for
Oh, you poor little fool- oh, you fool
World peace is none of your business
So would you kindly keep your nose out
The rich must profit and get richer
And the poor must stay poor
Oh, you poor little fool- oh, you fool
Each time you vote you support the process
Each time you vote you support the process
Each time you vote you support the process
Brazil and Bahrain
Oh, Egypt, Ukraine
So many people in pain
No more, you poor little fool
No more, you fool
Eleanor.....
Does you haircut really make it easier to pick the nits and find the lice as the African women say?
(her hair is racist)
“You don’t have a right to know”?
Since when? It is not like this is the Manhattan Project, and even that was at least partially revealed, after its purpose (to produce a working atomic bomb) had been fulfilled.
The need for secrecy when dealing with an enemy force that has ill intent and is actively engaged in warfare with you is one thing. For participation in the affairs of a government of men, secrecy is the exact wrong prescription.
When did “the most transparent of governments” become “the most lawless of governments”? And is there a way to reverse this trend?
Well, I can think of several, but most of them involve the use of sidearms and other weaponry and some crafty planning for strategic advantage.
This b!tch thinks we should all just bow down.
Not going to happen......We loathe her type and her “constituents”.
There are not enough Bags in the world....
Hiding much?
every time I see a pic of this broad she has her yap open.
Sweetheart - au contraire - you fascists have no right to hide such information.
“DC” = Dumb....uhhhh....Chick.
“When did “the most transparent of governments” become “the most lawless of governments”? And is there a way to reverse this trend?”
This token dope is the perfect tool to lead blacks to abortuaries and Planned Parenthood centers. Don’t question the government’s motives! /s
Then let’s bring back Dick Nixon!
I wonder what she will be sayin when she relize da Whitehouse going to takes some bennies from “her people in the words of Holder” to fund this minority wave?
I don’t care what she says as long as she cannot vote. She can bleat all she wants on Sunday TV shows when things get boring enough to start talking about how DC should be this or that.
These are the kind of arguments you can expect when people with IQs of 70 and below get elected as Congressmen, Senators and President. Pretty soon, they fill the judiciary and all the top spots in agencies throughout government. It is the worst kind of tyranny because there is nothing, no matter how dumb and irrational, they can’t emphatically convince themselves of. They parrot argumentation. They parrot reasoning, but are incapable of it. I mean, look at the woman’s face... Don’t tell me she knows or understands anything but her own hatred.
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