Shouldn't that be "watchpig".....?
Posted on 01/05/2007 7:59:53 PM PST by mdittmar
In taking back control of the House, Democrats also are restoring the old names used for committees when they last headed them in 1994.
Republicans swept into power in that year's midterm elections had created their own monikers for several committees. As part of the rules changes adopted this week, Democrats reclaimed the old names for several committee and created a new name for one other panel:
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce was changed back to its pre-1995 name, Education and Labor. Tom Kiley, a spokesman for incoming chairman George Miller, D-Calif., said Miller "believed that the name change in 1994 was a deliberate swipe at the labor movement in this country. He wanted to reverse the insult."
• The House Resources Committee is now the House Natural Resources Committee — the name it received in 1993 and lost in 1995. (It started in 1816 as the Committee on Public Lands.) Incoming Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., said the new name shows Congress' "commitment to conserving our nation's unique natural and cultural heritage — including its natural environment, public lands and forests, and fish and wildlife."
• Returning to a name first bestowed in 1922, the International Relations Committee is once again the Foreign Affairs Committee. Holocaust survivor Rep. Tom Lantos D-Calif., wields the gavel.
• The Science Committee is now the Committee on Science and Technology to more accurately describe the committee's jurisdiction, Democratic counsel John Piazza said. He said the Republicans' 1995 change shortened the name from the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Tennessee Democrat Bart Gordon is the new chairman.
• Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., is chairman of the newly renamed Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which had been the Government Reform Committee only since 1999. Before then, it was the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Waxman revels in his reputation as a watchdog over the executive branch.
5 year olds with our money.
Sure, that will solve all the problems...
Who will be running the Chamberlain committee on appeasement, pacifism and hate America first?
They ought to call themselves "regressives".
The first two are the "ones" that piss me off: renaming them to fit liberal politics..
Exactly! Spoiled little brats! I swear they are trying to turn back the clock like it was the 80's.
They're changing the names back to more like they were before the Republicans changed them. I see five year olds on both sides of the aisle.
You have them pegged.
Sheesh...how petty.
Symbolism over substance.
What a joke.
Yes, these are 5 year olds appeasing other 5 year old, their base. We're doin' sumpin, you know what I'm talkin' 'bout?!
The Committee on Education and the Workforce was changed back to its pre-1995 name: The Committee on Dumbing Down Our Children and Workforce Committee
The House Resources Committee is now The House Committee Owned by the Environmentalists
the International Relations Committee is now the We Love the United Nations and France Committee
Rep. Henry Waxman , D-Calif., is chairman of the newly renamed Impeach President Bush Committee, which had been the Government Reform Committee only since 1999
When will they be done re-aranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
Taxation and Pork Distribution Committee
Wacky Ideeers Committee (Oh wait, scratch that, that's the subcommittee in every Committee.)
Some new committees:
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
Professional Leakers to the New York Times
Professional Leakers to Our Sworn Enemies
I agree.
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But seriously. Here's a potential upside. These crypto-communists, as clever they thnk themselves to be, won't help themselves in the end, and screw up so much in the next two years, that they'll pave a yellow brick road for a conservative candidate for POTUS in 2008. Get on your knees an pray now!
Shouldn't that be "watchpig".....?
If only they were so concerned with our well being as they are with their own self-importance!
"International Relations" is more PC than "Foreign Affairs" which sounds like it's FDR-era. The former better reflects commerce, economics and international politics of the 21st century.
The Rats are building a bridge to the past, get ready to see how HUGH the toll is going to be.
Me too. I was ticked until I read the story. Why did the repubs change them in the 80's and 90's?
I so dislike politicians.
Renaming things is what the left does. Thus:
"Surrender" = "Redeployment"
"Murder" = "Abortion"
"baby" = "fetal material"
"Discrimination" = "Affirmative Action"
"Non Partisan" = "Marxist"
"Stealing" = "Paying your fair share"
I could go on...
Might as well rename turds as truffles. Who cares.
I think I'll go back to being apolitical. At least my blood pressure was lower. Sheesh...
You've got that right. Besides, Teddy Roosevelt wants his adjective back.
<:yawn:
What really matters is the plan to redefine marriage.
It's because the Left knows how important it is to control the vocabulary to control the argument and ultimately Public Opinion.
Please do. In the meantime:
Communist = Progressive Pederasty = Gaiety
Ethnocentrism = RACISM!!!
Orient = Asia
Willful ignorance = Tolerance
Anything at all (according to Tom Sowell) = Social Justice
... and so on, and so on.
I wonder how much the stationery is going to cost us...and the plaques on the desks and the lettering on the doors, etc., etc.
A business associate of mine works at the Capitol. He showed me the buttons they were giving out on the first day of the new session.
It had the slogan "Looking out for the little guy" and a drawing of a baby-like person on the bottom.
I've tried to find a soft-copy but can't seem to locate one.
Let's hope it's temporary
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Let them DIG.....and keep digging......get the popcorn....
Anti-SUV and Recycling Policy Committee
ROFL!
You're insulting the 5 year olds of this nation! /sarcasm off
"I wonder how much the stationery is going to cost us...and the plaques on the desks and the lettering on the doors, etc., etc."
My first thoughts, too. Guess they will recycle them into next year's Christmas cards and then on to become linoleum tiles.
It should come as no surprise that the Democrats "New Direction" is nothing more then a full return to their failed policy's and antics that lost them both Houses in 1994.
Now, to wait and see if the GOP learns anything from their failure the last couple years.
Conservatism will win every time.
Yes, you would.
If you noticed, the Republican names were less cumbersome.
I generally view anyone who uses the words "both sides" in a political discussion to be a drooling moron.
So in other words, if you are a member of the workforce and not part of the "labor movement" you don't count. So who is insulting who? The Republicans weren't leaving anyone out with that name - by their own admission the Democrats are.
ROFL My side hurts now...
If you think pettiness is a quality endemic to only one political party, coincidentally always the one you oppose, I propose the drooling you see is in the mirror.
I'm glad our Congressmen worry about such important things.
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