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 ...
LOL! Given enough rope....
Yeah - good thing Frist invoked the “nuclear” option...
Republicans need to stop bringing chocolates to a gunfight.
I don't know why people keep talking about this. Obomba has absolutely no history of being bipartisan in any elected office he's held. The 'Rats control everything. They have the votes to do whatever they want. They aren't going to be "bipartisan". Why should they? The sheeple elected them to the majority. Now they're stuck with it.
All we can do is hold them accountable. I know I have starting on election night. Everything that's happened since then is Obomba's fault. I'm going to treat them in the same manner they treated us these last eight years, give them the same respect they gave us. Who could be against that deal?
Republicans are “sending a letter” ?
How about standing up screaming at the top of your lungs?
How about some backbone?
.....Oh....never mind....
Will this “iron fist” translate on a global scale??
Wow: she does make a great Mussolini. Is it 1945 yet?
ya know, that is not a half bad idea.....keep half the chamber empty...
The vast majority of Americans will never even know that this happened.
HAHAHA!!! we’re really punishing those RINO’s now!
Nanny Pelosi to America: “I know what’s best for all of you two-bit peasants, now bow down to me or else!” Eva Peron would be proud of Nanny Nancy.
The audacity of tyranny.
Boehner has got to go...
WELCOME TO ONE PARTY RULE! Der commissar ist nicht verfügbar für Bemerkung.............
That is a picture of a real She Devil. What an ugly human being inside and out.
We have no one to blame but ourselves. Compromising ones principles in order to include dimwits too spineless to make up their mind is why McShame was nominated in the first place.
Jesus Christ is quoted in Revelation referring to moderates (New Age members of the church of the Laodiceans) as "Lukewarm" and his views on such spineless turds when he says, "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. "
This country is reaping what it has sown.
Not unless they cancel American Idol.....
ping
Marxism, fascism, very similar.
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