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Itsdb |
05/16/07 |
From The Corner blog at NRO...
Boehner's office just sent this out:
DEMOCRATS TO CHANGE 185 YEAR-OLD HOUSE RULE TO ALLOW TAX HIKES WITHOUT HAVING TO VOTE
May 16, 2007
In a stunning move, House Democrats today revealed they will attempt to rewrite House rules that have gone unchanged since 1822 in order to make it possible to increase taxes and government spending without having to vote and be held accountable. House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today vowed Republicans will use every available means to fight this unprecedented change.
“This is an astonishing attempt by the majority leadership to duck accountability for tax-and-spend policies the American people do not want,” Boehner said. “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 Republicans will use every tool available to fight this abuse of power.”
Last November, House Democratic leaders promised the most open, ethical Congress in history:
“[W]e promised the American people that we would have the most honest and most open government and we will.” (Nancy Pelosi press stakeout, December 6, 2006)
“We intend to have a Rules Committee ... that gives opposition voices and alternative proposals the ability to be heard and considered on the floor of the House.” (Steny Hoyer in CongressDaily PM, December 5, 2006)
The rules House Democrats are seeking to change have not been changed since 1822.
Republicans have already achieved significant legislative successes on the House floor with 11 consecutive “motion-to-recommit” victories that exposed flaws and substantively improved weaknesses in underlying Democrat bills. But rather than living by the same rules which have guided the House of Representatives for 185 years, Democrats are proposing to change the rules in order to game the system and raise taxes and increase spending without a House vote. What are House Democrats afraid of?
Andy McCarthy responds:
Any chance the mainstream media will refer to Pelosi's procedural maneuver as "The Nuclear Option"?
I didn't think so. That's evidently only for right-wing maniacs who want to force an accountable vote on confirming Bush judges, not for right-thinking liberals who want to avoid an accountable vote on raising Americans' taxes. Good to get that straightened out.
The fox is guarding the hen house folks. Not six months into their "corruption sweep" the Democrats are pulling out all the stops and doing every single thing they've complained the Republicans were doing - and then some.
When will the drive-by media to get off their asses and start hammering the Democrats like they've hammered Bush and the Republicans? I'm just hoping the American people aren't so gullible as to fall for their dirty tricks like they fell for their Trojan horse campaign last year.
And maybe they're catching on ... it was just a few weeks ago the papers were reporting that congress' approval rating was higher than Bush's. Last I heard congress' approval rating was 29 percent - and yet they still preach of some alleged mandate from the voters. Apparently all of those voters wear tin foil hats... |
Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 05/17/07 3:03 pm:
The Corner says Pelosi caved. Congressman Eric Cantor said House Democrats wanted to change the rules to make it easier to raise taxes. They wanted to hide their Members from a direct vote on the tough issues. They wanted to change rules on minority floor rights that have been in place since 1822. They failed.
Today, House Republicans stood united and successfully fought against the House Democrats’ ill-advised rule changes, by reducing all business on the House Floor to a crawl. We used a creative set of motions and other parliamentary techniques to bring the fight.
In the end, House Democrats lost and the American People won.
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