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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We’ll have two years of gridlock. Nothing will get done.
I’m happy with it. It could have been a lot worse.
Obama had to deal the last six years of his presidency with a GOP House.
Now the situation is reversed.
Yup. The problem is, we have a choice between tax-and-spend Democrats or borrow-and-spend Republicans.
I can live with two years of gridlock. Meanwhile, the Senate should still be confirming judges and that may even include a Supreme jurist.
Sure, they can start the process. But the Dems’ majority is small enough that articles of impeachment might not even make it out of the House. And if they do, they still have to get a two-thirds majority in a Republican-controlled Senate for a conviction - which ain’t bloody likely no matter how much the RINOs detest Trump.
Einsatzgruppen’d
It isn't the parties, it's the people - the parties are just the reflection.
We've met the enemy and it is us...
"Ryan, you want to be VP?" "Eh."
"Ryan, you want to be Speaker?" "Eh."
"Ryan, you want to go the gym?" "OH YEAH!!!"
Oh yeah. Tomorrow is AOC’s ‘inauguration’ day. It’s gonna be a fun ride.
Well Taco girl can just go make tacos if she doesn’t like it...
It isn't the DC swamp water, it's the water out here in Heartland Springs, USA.
Politicians who tell the truth about the trade offs between taxes and services don't get (re-)elected.
The public wants to believe that we can have fully funded SS and Medicare, universal healthcare and a super-robust military and the other guy will pay for it.
The best we can hope for is politicians who lie to get elected but figure out how to break their promises gracefully enough to do the right thing yet get re-elected.
There are a few of them around but not many.
LOL!!
Looks like they have infused some piranha with the Siamese fighting fish.....bloodbath to follow.
The condemned Bolsheviks used to cry out “za ctoh!” What for.
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