Pelosi Breaks the House

She’s only been in power for about 4 months but like a bull in a China cabinet she has managed to break up the all ready frayed working relationships in the House of Representatives.

I'm not sure why you would only include a portion of it, when we have room here to read it. The other factor is that links on the Internet disappear and thus make this post invalid for the content of the link. We have things on Free Republic that go back for over 7 years or more (and links are dead for that length of time). That's why things should be included here. So, I post this for everyone's reading and for historical context, for future readers...

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2007

She’s only been in power for about 4 months but like a bull in a China cabinet she has managed to break up the all ready frayed working relationships in the House of Representatives.

Frustrated that the House is not a dictatorship Nancy Pelosi signaled that she would act to make it one and in an outrageous authoritarian act moved to change House rules that have been in place since 1822.

The house rules that Pelosi as decided to change are current House rules regarding the minority party’s right to the Motion to recommit or the test of germaneness on the motion to recommit.

It is called the Germaneness Rule, which gives the minority party the ability to challenge provisions in a bill on the floor. What this rule does is it insures that the no bill is brought up for vote in the House that the minority has not been able to read

According to the Drudge Report this Pelosi’s decision to change the 185-year rule developed after Democrats continued to lose a string of embarrassing votes on the House floor because of procedural maneuvering. Democrats had bragged that a new Congress was in town and things were going to be different.

So according to Drudge Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to change the current House Rules to completely shut down the floor to the minority. Dictatorship instead of democracy I’d say that, that is definitely different Ms. Pelosi!

Mind you, the Democrats were in the minority recently for twelve years and the Republican Majority did not even think to enact such a draconian measure.

“This is an astonishing attempt by the majority leadership to duck accountability for tax-and-spend policies the American people do not want.”
“The majority leadership is gutting House rules that have been in place for 185 years so they can raise taxes and increase government spending without a vote.” -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio)

Pelosi has shown panache to travel halfway across the world to speak with enemies of the United States, it is indeed surprising that she cannot negotiate or talk to fellow American Congresspersons.

No doubt Democrats would be crying through the media if the situation were reversed and the media would be calling the Republicans the second coming of the third Reich but this Democrat deconstruction of American democracy will be reported as a mere bending of the rules by the Democrats at the least or some Republican threat to shut down the government at worst.

Understand that this act by a Pelosi lead Democrat control House of Representatives is typical of a tyrannical and ideological run political party that wishes to force its beliefs on the American people at the cost of destroying the American institution of democracy in order to achieve the Democrat’s goal of power and control in America.

Regards,
Star Traveler

You said on your web page --

Fellow traveller and word mystic attempting to bring attention to the Orwellian world that Liberal speak has created.

It would seem that the Orwellian language of "Newspeak" is alive and well on the FReeper board, too, as I was saying in my post over here.

I was referring to the idea of "support the troops" in that one can do that, and on the FReeper side of things, and evaluate what the political situation is, at the same time, in that the "winds of change" is happening for a pull-out from Iraq. It's pretty apparent that this is going to begin, in earnest, coming up on the 2008 Presidential elections.

I was referring to (in that above post), to this "Fifth Point" in this post on the same thread.

And so, if you wanted to examine the Orwellian language of Newspeak, you might also take a look at it here on Free Republic, in terms of what the issues are going to be in terms of "supporting the troops" while a pull-out is going on in Iraq (coming up in the 2008 Presidential elections), and if it is even possible to discuss the political ramifications of this, without forcing everyone's "speech" into the "Newspeak" category, instead of "Oldspeak".

We can see the "principles of Newspeak" here from George Orwell, himself.

Regards,
Star Traveler

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