Bend Over: The New Congress is Coming
January 9, 2009 by Orlando
Filed under News and Opinion
Nancy Pelosi in 2004 unveiled a “Bill of Rights” to protect House minority interests. Bend over and kiss that goodbye.
This past week, the Democratic controlled congress put the screws to the minority opposition. According to the Wall Street Journal, Nancy and her colleagues created a set of rules for more control and suppression of Republican ideas. Included are the following:
- Abolished term limits for committee chairmen.
- Eliminated cost containment measures on Medicare.
- Made tax increases easier to pass.
- Made it difficult to have tax cuts: the only way to have a tax cut is to have a tax increase.
- Eliminated the “motion to recommit” which was a procedural safeguard to block tax increases by the GOP.
- Buried the “pay-go” rules requiring new spending be balanced with additional revenue or cuts.
What was their reason for these new blocking and manipulation strategies? According to Barney Franks, it was to avoid “game playing.” It sounds more like the Democrats playing the game–hardball!
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No one should be surprised. This was predictable and predicted. Let’s have a few years of this and see if the American people continue in their slumber.