Because control of the House, Senate, and Executive just isn’t enough.
(H/T: MM)
Human Events claims:
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.”
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Pelosi’s proposed repeal of decades-long House accountability reforms exposes a tyrannical Democrat leadership poised to assemble legislation in secret, then goose-step it through Congress by the elimination of debate and amendment procedures as part of America’s governing legislative process.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
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Pelosi and Hoyer threatened something like this after the 2006 elections, if I remember correctly. They backed down at the time, but they may think that they can piggyback on Obamania to push it through now.
I mean, it’s not like the press will depict it as draconian or anything, right? It’s Democrats pushing for it, surely it’s for the best.
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