Posted on 01/02/2019 5:05:20 PM PST by EdnaMode
House Democratic leaders are set to advance sweeping internal rules changes Thursday that would attempt to bring more sunshine to congressional governance and defuse a pair of political powder kegs that wreaked havoc on GOP leaders during the past eight years.
But in their first day of power in the new Congress, Democrats must stave off a liberal rebellion after prominent Democrats said they would oppose the entire rules package that has been carefully assembled by Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a top lieutenant.
Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) and Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) said they would vote against the rules changes — in the second vote Democrats will take in the majority after ostensibly electing Pelosi (D-Calif.) as the new speaker — because of the inclusion of a fiscal measure known as “pay as you go,” or paygo. That rule, echoing a provision in federal law and in the Senate’s rules, would require the House to offset any spending so as not to increase the budget deficit.
So far, Democrats have given no signs of needing to revise the measure to win votes — and assuming its passage Thursday afternoon, Pelosi plans to move quickly to vote on legislation that would reopen portions the government that have been shut for nearly two weeks amid a standoff over money demanded by President Trump for a border wall.
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It’s not the only threat they face. There is one more terrifying that they can imagine.
Girl fight!
Sarah was right about lipstick on a pig.
In a pigs eye.
AOC probably does not realize the rule is meant to jack up taxes, not reduce spending. The party of looting and lies is not about to concede any power back to the common American.
The commie pigs at the Washington Post are hoping for a Pol Pot revolution without realizing that they’ll be the first group shot.
I love it when leftists fight each other.
AOC is gonna be PIZZED when she is TUTB by the prolib party trying to shut her up.
Popcorn, popcorn and more popcorn!
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The commie pigs at the Washington Post are hoping for a Pol Pot revolution without realizing that they’ll be the first group shot.
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That’s right. Useful Idiots seldom realize that after they are no longer useful, they’re done away with.
Good luck with the spending bills. They’re dead on arrival in the Senate.
Is it possible to be less fiscally responsible than our last Congress, which decided not to have pay-go BTW?
Nancy will ‘cut there heads off and they won’t even know it’, ad her daughter likes to say.
The politicians in wdc are a pathetic, sad lot. What degenerate wastrels and goons.
“”The terms of the current Congress will end at noon on January 3, 2019 as specified by the 20th Amendment. The new Congress meets at that time and will be sworn in then. They won’t actually start the impeachment process for awhile as they’ll need to set up their committees and the like.””
Are they kidding? Someone actually imagined them being sworn in and starting the impeachment process immediately? Is there no common sense left in this country - is there no one with common sense that will take the oath of office tomorrow?
And when they’re led to the edge of the ditch to be shot, they cry: I’m one of you. Please don’t kill me. I helped bring you to power!
BANG! Dead.
The stupidity of leftists is monumental.
When has it been there in the first place?
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