Posted on 01/05/2009 7:54:23 AM PST by Clinton's a liar
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.
Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”
In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. These procedural abuses, as outlined in the below letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, would also include the repeal of six-year limit for committee chairmen and other House Rules reform measures enacted in 1995 as part of the Contract with America.
[TEXT OF LETTER AT LINK]
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
You are spot on...........
Just a warm up for the fairness doctrine.
It’s their nature.
It's what all good little communists do..........
this will be the only way that the war will be won.
I think the Dem’s need to be invaded from within and their most loathesome liberals flushed out. I think Republicans in NY, California,Minnesota, Wisconsin and New England should go exclusively Democrat party in terms of registration and turn the primary systems in these states completely on their ears and liberals out on their rears. Conservative can then vote for conservatives in the Generals.
As for the congress, why not...if Pelosi had 100 per cent Democrats...the power balances who certainly shift away from her since more moderate Dem’s would have political cover to oppose the more aggregious of Dem legislation. The “conservative” Dem’s could then offer input on legislation. THE MSM would be sucker punched and couldn’t mount a response for weeks.
Now, if the Conservatives would have the balls to consider this change should Pelosi make good on her threats, the political jiu jitsu effects would be a wonder to behold.
Conservatism and America are what need to be saved, forget the two party structure!
Trust me. There are so few Republicans that the Democrats won’t be able to deflect. Our local Democrat mouthpiece has started to push their agenda, blaming any unwillingness by the Democrats as “timidity”
So instead of criticizing Congress, they just tell them what to do and chastise them if they don’t do it. Here’s what to expect:
1) On Jan 20, the Recession is over. Prosperity springs from the presence of The Dear Leader Obama.
2) Taxes are too low
3) The War on Terror is good.
4) People are happiest when they are serving The Dear Leader and his policies.
5) All of The Dear Leader’s policies will take 5 years to implement. We must be patient.
It’s going to be great having the Clown Prince of the Senate, Al Franken, leaving flaming shit bags at Harry Reid’s doorstep.
Newt will probably be the next RNC chair............
LOL the Progressive liberals are jumping for joy. This is exactly what they want. Welcome to the Obama Plantation folks...
They are gonna run a good cop bad cop scenario to try and make the public think Obama is Centrist when in fact the far left agenda will get forced down our throats...
Its over I knew this was going to happen..... and the play is for Obama to pretend like his hands are clean...
Right....
Republicans need to get out front now... Get on Camera stage protests on the Capital steps do the very things that the Rats did or we are going to pay and pay big.
bump
Not a peep from MSM
Change you can believe in.
Right,,, what a bipartisian thing to do!
HEY HEY! HO HO! THE BOTOX BITCH HAS GOT TO GO!.......
typical woman with power.....
now if only Sarah were president I could say that happily..lol
Shrieker Pelosi shows her fascist true colors.
You just remided me of something. The first election that I was eligible for was in 1980. I was 18 or 19 or so. I was excited about it, liked Reagan and detested Carter in spite of being raised in a family of solid wall-to-wall Democrats.
When voting day came around, I took a look at the sample ballot, and realized that I had no idea what the hell I was doing. In addition to the Presidential candidates, there was a swarm of Congress candidates, Senate candidates, candidates for various local and state offices, and a long list of ballot measures and initiatives. I was stunned. I had no grounding on the facts of the election. I felt that I was way out of my depth- and I finally decided that voting while so ill-informed was tantamount to blindly shooting in a residential neighborhood. I couldn’t do it in good conscience. I sat the election out, and vowed that next time, I’d know exactly what I was doing.
That’s what I did. From then on out, I made it a point to understand what was on the ballot, before it arrived. I remember in 1988 sitting with my then-fiancee in the kitchen for several hours with a sample ballot, while we hashed out how we were going to vote and amicably debated the various points of the issues. We made crib notes, and walked off to the polling place.
But I just couldn’t make myself vote in that one election, in 1980. I don’t think there are many people who think like that, anymore. I still feel badly about it.
Stop slandering Eva - she's probably spinning in her grave at the comparison.
Just got here and haven’t read all the comments.
Has McC commented on this travesty or is on board with it?
John fund at the WSJ predicted prior to the election that the dims would change the rules to make it more difficult for Republicans to affect legislation and regain seats. It’s what communists and dictators do to retain power.
They never take any blame. Don’t you know?
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