Posted on 07/22/2010 10:46:24 AM PDT by Superstu321
Want a sneak preview for what the 2011 legislative calendar has in store?
The Intrade prediction market is giving the GOP a 57-percent shot of taking back the House of Representatives this fall, meaning it is more likely to happen than not. And a lot of polls seem to be indicating the same thing. But should that happen, then what?
According to Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., the House Republicans should exercise their power to subpoena and hold continuous hearings. Speaking to a gathering for the GOP Youth Convention on July 22 in Washington, D.C., she emphasized this point.
“Oh, I think that’s all we should do,” Bachmann said. “I think that all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another. And expose all the nonsense that is going on. And it’s very important when we come back that we have constitutional conservative leadership because the American people’s patience is about this big.”
Bachmann expressed her concern over the stake the government has in the private economy, which has grown since President Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States.
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A tip: invest in popcorn in 2011. It’s going to be a bad year for rats.
I just hope that IF the GOP gains control of the House, they have all their ducks in a row. To just start hearings the way D’Amato did in ‘95 with the Whitewater hearings will be as fruitless as his was.
Paybacks are a Mother, and it’s time the Democrats were on the receiving end.
I have absolutely no respect for any Republican who wants to live and let live after the way they were treated by pelosi and the Democrats.
Hearings hell! Guillotine Sessions if you axe me.
FREE THE LONG FORM!
I love Michelle’s thinking and am behind her 100%, however she first needs to get the ball-less, gutless, pansified metrosexuals passing themselves off as conservative representives on board. Since this dumba$$ Obamanation has been in power, I have yet to see one of them actually make any demonstrable effort to collectively “right” the ship. Cowards and pansies all...
I love Michelle’s thinking and am behind her 100%, however she first needs to get the ball-less, gutless, pansified metrosexuals passing themselves off as conservative representives on board. Since this dumba$$ Obamanation has been in power, I have yet to see one of them actually make any demonstrable effort to collectively “right” the ship. Cowards and pansies all...
Let’s sharpen the national razor, and put zero and the Dims’ necks in the hole. You go Bachmann and bring Issa along.
I essentially agree, but if the Republicans are smart, they will keep their mouths shut, get control of the House, and hold hearings using a moderated tone until they get something worth having. Then they can start pulling the dead cats out of the bag to show off.
Instead, what I am afraid we are going to see is every freshman Republican Congressman running his mouth everywhere he can, making promises about things he has no idea about, only to fall on his face in a very public manner.
The problem is that “our guys” in Congress, particularly the new ones, do not understand that for the most part the public is fed up with all politicians. The pubic does not want posturing. The public prefers politicians who “walk softly but carry a big stick”.
Haley Barbour is the perfect Republican politician in my view. Listen to him carefully. He cuts and slices the Democrats totally and completely, but none of them know how badly they are cut until just before they bleed to death from the cuts that he has inflicted.
Issa made a similar comment about a week ago. He’s on the right committee to do it.
Well, I guess I’m down with that...
What a stupid thing, to say this out loud.
My question is, what happens if the Democrats hold congress? Not sure if anyone realizes this but if the Republicans do not take congress in 2010, next up would be Fairness Doctrine, the takeover of more industries and the final destruction of the Constitution.
If we lose, by 2012 we will be Venezuela.
Darrell Issa has eye on subpoena team (we need more like this guy!)
"HERSHEY, Pa.— Rep. Darrell Issa, the conservative firebrand whose specialty is lobbing corruption allegations at the Obama White House, is making plans to hire dozens of subpoena-wielding investigators if Republicans win the House this fall.
Issa has told Republican leadership that if he becomes chairman, he wants to roughly double his staff from 40 to between 70 and 80. And he is not subtle about what that means for President Barack Obama...."
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Why is it the only ‘Pubbies who possess any b@lls also wear a skirt?
The Guillotine is to quick. I want to watvh the bastards twitch!
This could backfire. However, they could first start by calling the DOJ over the Black Panther crap. This is a lose/lose for the Obama administration.
Right On. Can you imagine the corruption & fraud in this coming election & the pubbies will not do anything about it. This is not any sure thing for the dumb party to take over & if so watch them blow it.
First up will be Eric Holder, unless he tries to defy the subpoena.
Trent Lott the progressive republican socialist, but I repeat myself, sold us out on that one.
Palin-Bachmann 2012
Dear God, please bless America one more time....
...and I’m Mme DeFarge.
You’re not far off.
Instead of hearings, they need to repeal or defund Healthcare and thwart Obama’s agenda any way they can; introduce bills that will help get us back on track ....this is ridiculous.
I weep for Representative Bachmann and the good people like her. Our Affirmative Action Kenyan Muslim Pres__ent has been ignoring subpoenas for months, and he now has all the legislation he needs in place. If the only challenges he faces are legal ones, he can stomp Michele Bachmann, you, me, and the rest of white America literally to death. And he’s too stupid to realize that when he “triumphs,” he will rule only rubble.
Republicans better start working on jobs and dismantling Obamacare. Endless hearings will be seen as the usual politics and could cost Republicans in 2012
Impeach Obama!!
Given the leadership Michelle has demonstrated in light of the GOP House and Senate collapse, she should be the next speaker of the house. We really need to put the tired old losers of the GOP in the back of the bus. We need new ideas and vision, power, enthusiam and people who can string two words together in front of a crowd and camera.
Michelle is THE ONE.
...and Senator Pothole was over-eager. Had he waited for the investigation into Foster’s “suicide” to be completed, a lot of avenues into the WH would have opened. Instead, it was, “We can’t say anything about an on-going investigation.” Many threads were left in the breeze and there was never a follow-up. Al, and the Republicans came out of it looking like jerks....not an inapt depiction.
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