When Stephanopoulos showed Nancy Pelosi her own words stating “bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows open, full, and fair debate consisting of a full amendment process that grants the Minority the right to offer its alternatives,” and then asked why Republicans couldn’t have a vote on opening up offshore drilling, her answer was “they-th-th-eh-eh-ev-they they’ll have to use their imaginations as to how they can get a vote, and they may get a vote.”
So in other words, Nancy says Republicans are going to have to outsmart her to get a vote. That shouldn’t be too difficult to do.
Stephonopoulos asked her the question (why not permit a straight up or down vote) 10 times in that clip. The 10th time, she answers. This should be a lesson to all of us to persist in our own endeavors. Anyway, the 10th time, she said, “Because the President won’t allow any of these other things to go forward.” I didn’t watch CBS this morning, but I hope that Steph then asked her what the point was of this exercise if, when they get back, the President still won’t allow these things to go forward and, more than likely, they’ll have to vote straight up or down on the issue anyway.
She needs to be asked where in the Constitution it says they have to use their imaginations as to how they can get a vote. Not that she has any regard for the Constitution.