Senator ‘Educate yourselves or you’ll get stuck in Iraq’ Kerry (D-MA): ‘Everybody knows’ most legislators don’t read the bills they sign.

Remember in 2006 when John Kerry infamously told students:

You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

So, Senator Kerry should be all for giving legislators (and the public) 72 hours to read sweeping legislative bills before they are voted on, right? Well, not exactly. This is what he said to the members of a Senate Finance Committee last week:

This is fundamentally a delay tactic. I mean, let’s be honest about it. The legislative language, everybody knows, is relatively arcane, legalistic, and most people don’t read the legislative language.

Doublespeak much, Senator Kerry?

I wonder when Stephen King will weigh in.

 

Photo: FreeRepublic.com

 

Congress demands hearings after President’s talk with Schools

The House Majority Leader stated:

“The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students, And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”

Of course this is not the current congress asking why President Obama is once again in front of the cameras, this time broadcasting to millions of school children. No the above quote was from then House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt when H.W. Bush spoke to children in 1991.

Hat Tip: McClatchy Watch

 

Bend Over: The New Congress is Coming

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!