Who knew? Brother, this sure is a surprise!! The new head of the shadow government, Nancy Pelosi, that has come out of the darkness were she has be hiding and running an organization that is dedicated to stopping anything the Republicans try to accomplishment by legal or illegal means.
Witness the leaks in the New York Times, stark results of Democrat operatives in the CIA and the State Department leaking state secrets to embarrass George Bush. That these leaks have killed government agents or soldiers means little to Pelosi. After all, what's more important, national security or getting back into power?
She has decided to take control of the country by setting up new rules that will effectively close off debate and render the Republican minority powerless. She wants a complete lock on anything that she wants to accomplish. This, of course, means the Obama Chicago gang will not be a significant factor in how things get accomplished.
The conventional wisdom here is the congress can do what ever they want as the new president doesn't have a clue to what's going on. I believe this is true, but even so, given how Obama got elected and his Chicago background of gangland thugs and terrorists, and as things go in Chicago, out comes differ from those Pelosi is use to coming from San Fransisco. Maybe one morning Pelosi will wake up and find she has been fitted with a concrete overcoat and will be going 'swimming with the fishes'.
Is Obama powerless here? hmmm Time will tell, but in any event, the rules for minority rights that the Republicans set up when they took power in 1994 are about to go by the boards now that the Democrats are in power. This is just one more sign of the liberal grab for complete power to control all aspects of our lives.
Keep the faith - we are getting more reinforcements every day to do battle.
John Fund Blasts Speaker Pelosi on 'Reforms'
Friday, January 9, 2009
By: David A. Patten
The rule changes Speaker Nancy Pelosi is steamrolling through the House of Representatives contradict President-elect Barack Obama’s bipartisan promises, and also fly in the face of Pelosi’s own pledge to “insure the rights” of the minority party.
That’s the view of Wall Street Journal columnist and author John Fund, who documented Friday how Pelosi’s tune has changed in a bid to drown out the voices of Republican minority opposition in Congress.
The recent rule changes engineered by Pelosi, for example, end term limits for committee chairmanships. This is a major reversal of GOP reforms ushered in by the 1994 ”Contract With America.”
Term limits, Fund writes in a commentary titled “Pelosi Turns Back the Clock on House Reform,” helped “inject new ideas and merit into Congress.”
Pelosi’s rule changes partially restore the old Democratic, seniority-based system of chairmanships.
“Can this really be the ‘change’ that voters wanted last November?” Fund asks rhetorically. “Wags are already joking that Democrats are really delivering ‘senility you can believe in.’”
The rule changes passed Tuesday also severely restrict the legislative maneuver called a “motion to recommit” - a century-old maneuver that the minority party uses to send bills that reach the floor back to committees, where they can be endlessly debated.
GOP representatives used the tactic 50 times in the last session, mostly to stave off hidden tax hikes buried in larger bills.
Fund points out that Pelosi’s new rules sharply contradict positions she took before Democrats came to power. In 2004, Fund says, Pelosi rolled out a "Bill of Rights" to protect the interests of the party not in power.
"When we [Democrats] are shut out, they are shutting out the great diversity of America," Pelosi warned at the time. “We want a higher standard."
Just prior to becoming Speaker, Pelosi spoke of "bipartisanship" and her plans "to ensure the rights of the minority." Now that Democrats have consolidated their power, however, things are obviously different.
One of the ironies of Pelosi’s power grab, Fund points out, is that conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats are among the losers under the new rules because they often lack seniority.
Fund quotes Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, who observes: "All those nice pro-life, gun-owning young Democrats recruited to run by Rahm Emanuel will never have any real influence now. They were useful in getting Democrats a majority, but now they'll be in the back of the bus."
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