Posted on 04/10/2023 8:14:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan
WHEN DEMOCRATS ATTACK DEMOCRACY. The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules. The constitutions also give lawmakers the authority to punish members for violating those rules.
Rules make a legislature run, which is why party leaders always stack their rules committees with lawmakers sure to side with their party on any heated dispute. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), for example, was widely regarded as a master of using the rules to further her party's ends. To see how she did it, look to January 2021, at the beginning of her last term as speaker, when Pelosi introduced a series of rules "reforms" that severely limited the rights of the minority, Republicans, to offer amendments to bills. "The rules all but eliminate what is called the motion to recommit," the Wall Street Journal editorial page noted at the time. "This legislative tool has existed since the first Congress, and for nearly 90 years it has allowed the minority party to offer the last amendment to legislation. The motions typically fail, but they are a way for the minority to highlight and provoke a debate on controversial questions."
Pelosi, working with a very small Democratic majority, shut down the minority's ability to focus on issues important to them. Her basic guideline was very simple: The majority rules. For this, Pelosi received lavish praise in the media as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, speakers in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Stop calling them democrats and start calling them what they are, commies who want to turn our constitutional republic into a Marxist hellhole.
When, pray tell, haven't the demoncrats attacked democracy?
She looks like the White Refrigerator that Lisa Lampanelli jokes about.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.