"I'll tell you what's fair, and what's not!"
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 ...
SIEG HEIL!....OR ELSE!.............
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Rats you beat me to it.
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"I'll tell you what's fair, and what's not!"
BINGO!
Well if they actually do this, I’ll give them credit for having the balls to do what the Republican’s couldn’t when they had the chance.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Spot on. It’s a bloddy shell-game!
"You have the right to free speech. That's if you're not dumb enough to actually try it." - Joe Strummer (The Clash), Know Your Rights.
Welcome to America 2.0. Our Constitution has been trashed by the Left.
Contrast that with the 'Pub style: "reaching across the aisle", "bipartisanship", "cooperation", "respecting the rights of the minority", "playing fair".
Now, of the two, which do the sheeple choose? And what does that say about what the sheeple respect and understand?
Oooh- a letter of objection form the House GOP “leadership”
THAT will get her attention
s-a-r-c
Frankly, why don’t the GOP lawmakers grow some stones and just GO HOME if we are no longer to have a bipartisan legislature? The “people” have spoken. Now is the time to let the democrats get all the “glory” for the gory mess Reid Pelosi Barneyfrank et al will make of what remains of the US government
I see nothing wrong with this. In fact, why wasn’t this in place when the GOP was in charge?
Did you see the poll of Obama voters?
The devil shoots Botox.
Nancy and Harry are not capable of leading a majority. They will go so far left they will fracture their own caucus.
A precursor to rewriting the Constitution. Wait for it.
Snort. Like there's been much difference of late.
What a bunch of fools. Sadly, decades of public education has apparently left a large portion of the voting public unable to see them for what they are.
I think the majority of true conservatives have come to the realization that electing another RINO would not have done anyone any good. The only thing these dumbed-down voters will understand is everything going to hell in a hand basket. I have, reluctantly, come to the conclusion that having the liberals in control of both Congress and the White House is the only thing that will make it apparent that the liberals are not capable of leading anything.
I hear that.
I just loooooove the fact that Stretch hails from Baltimordor...
Good post!
The market was heading back up until this news broke. Trending down now. From this point on, the rats are responsible for EVERYTHING.
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