Pelosi Erases Gingrich's Long-Standing Fairness Rules

[WillowTree]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.

Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”

In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. These procedural abuses, as outlined in the below letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, would also include the repeal of six-year limit for committee chairmen and other House Rules reform measures enacted in 1995 as part of the Contract with America.

Pelosi Reverses House Fairness Rules - HUMAN EVENTS




I spit on Democrats!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.

Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”

In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. These procedural abuses, as outlined in the below letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, would also include the repeal of six-year limit for committee chairmen and other House Rules reform measures enacted in 1995 as part of the Contract with America.

Pelosi Reverses House Fairness Rules - HUMAN EVENTS




I spit on Democrats!

Remember how the press was all up in arms about the republicans when the Senate said they may eliminate the Filibuster because of the stonewalling the Democrats were doing? Wanna bet the press doesn't even report this much at all? ANd wanna bet the Liberals on this board defend this action?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

If this passes I suggest the Republicans in the House boycott the Congress. Have a picket of the House, FORCE this into the news.

 

[DiamondDave]

BUT.. It's in the spirit of bi-partisanship...

Pelosi is a waste of carbon and oxygen

 

[driveby]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to re-write House rules today to ensure that the Republican minority is unable to have any influence on legislation. Pelosi’s proposals are so draconian, and will so polarize the Capitol, that any thought President-elect Obama has of bipartisan cooperation will be rendered impossible before he even takes office.

Pelosi’s rule changes -- which may be voted on today -- will reverse the fairness rules that were written around Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.”

In reaction, the House Republican leadership is sending a letter today to Pelosi to object to changes to House Rules this week that would bar Republicans from offering alternative bills, amendments to Democrat bills or even the guarantee of open debate accessible by motions to recommit for any piece of legislation during the entire 111th Congress. These procedural abuses, as outlined in the below letter obtained by HUMAN EVENTS, would also include the repeal of six-year limit for committee chairmen and other House Rules reform measures enacted in 1995 as part of the Contract with America.

Pelosi Reverses House Fairness Rules - HUMAN EVENTS




I spit on Democrats!

I'll keep this simple, Pelosi is a **** and a hypocrite, thank you.....

 

[Andrew2382]

Awaiting for partisan hack response from Sealy.....

"The gop sucks, I want to lick Pelosi's ass"

 

[driveby]

Awaiting for partisan hack response from Sealy.....

"The gop sucks, I want to lick Pelosi's ass"

 

[WillowTree]

If this passes I suggest the Republicans in the House boycott the Congress. Have a picket of the House, FORCE this into the news.

if this passes there is actually no reason for the opposition to be there is there? Nope!

 

[rayboyusmc]

To post Gingrich's name along with fairness and then criticize Pelosi is about as right wing partisan bullshit as you can get.

Newt is rightly named for his level of bi-partisan evolution.

I will wait and see what if anything Pelosi writes before I jump on this bandwagon.

Gingrich, after all, was the architect of the so-called K Street Project, which is at the center of the current corruption scandals. As the Post reported in 2002, "Starting in the mid-1990s, some Republicans, including then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and [Representative Tom] DeLay, have advocated tracking the political affiliation of lobbyists, as part of an effort to place more conservatives on K Street." In return, K Street would help the GOP ram through corporate-written legislation and fill GOP coffers with campaign contributions. It worked perfectly. The American Prospect reported in 2000 that within the first six months of Gingrich's tenure as Speaker, "the Republican leadership introduced a spate of controversial bills gutting regulatory agencies" and that "business contributions more than doubled from what they had been during a comparable period in 1993." By 1998 Gingrich wasn't even trying to hide the K Street Project, as he "held up a vote on intellectual property legislation in protest of the Electronics Industry Association's plan to hire a Democrat to run the group," according to the Post. In fact, when Gingrich resigned at the end of 1998, the Hill newspaper ran a story headlined NEWT'S DEPARTURE DEFLATES KEY LOBBYISTS, which detailed the unsuccessful effort by Gingrich and corporate lobbyists to help him hold on to power and preserve K Street's bridge into Congress.

Newt's New Con

 

[WillowTree]

I'll keep this simple, Pelosi is a **** and a hypocrite, thank you.....

grin and bear it buddy, the whole Democratic party is a posse of pussy!

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Notice only the shit stain responded , none of the other liberals are gonna touch this, or will claim it is fair.

But yes if this passes it means the Republicans need not even attend and I suggest they do not, rather make signs and protest in front of the House.

 

[doeton]

I spit on Democrats!

i spit on traitors.

 

[doeton]

Notice only the shit stain responded , none of the other liberals are gonna touch this, or will claim it is fair.
.

it is funny who responded alright.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

it is funny who responded alright.

So you support the Democrats effectively REMOVING the Republicans from the workings of Congress in the House? Figures, you never were to bright. as I recall you are senile.

I suggest if this passes the Republicans take it to Court.

 

[KMAN]

Good ole Nancy Pelosi changing rules so the US people don't have time to find out what's going on... What a bitch! So much for the openness and transparency she promised...

Sad thing is liberals out there think this is good as long as they get their way... Sad.


Also on Tuesday, Democrats — who hold a 257-178 majority in the House — approved a measure to eliminate the six-year term limit for committee chairmen, one of the reforms of the “Contract with America” agenda adopted by Republicans after they took control of the House in 1995.

Rep. Boehner said in a letter to Pelosi that eliminating the 6-year restriction “will entrench a handful of members of the House in positions of permanent power, with little regard for its impact on the American people.”



Newsmax.com - Pelosi Power Grab: Her Plan to Shackle the GOP

 

[driveby]

Liberals are right, everyone else is wrong.

Lather, rinse, repeat .....

 

[KMAN]

To post Gingrich's name along with fairness and then criticize Pelosi is about as right wing partisan bullshit as you can get.

Newt is rightly named for his level of bi-partisan evolution.

I will wait and see what if anything Pelosi writes before I jump on this bandwagon.



Newt's New Con

I know.. more right wing lies... Gingrich didn't do anything for Democrats....you're pathetic dude.

Pelosi to erase Gingrich Fairness Rules to silence Republican minority at osmoothie

 

[WillowTree]

i spit on traitors.

don't spit upwind!

 

[Lycurgus]

Commie Comrade Pelosi is sending us a huge message of what will take place over the next 4 years.

This centrist claim is a smoke screen.

How many American's are now not properly represented? ahuh

Climb the mountain and yell it loud .............

Socialism / Marxism

Oh oh and The Bank Queen Barney Frank on MSLSD was too funny!

 

[Charles_Main]

Some of this have been warning of this coming for some time. We will be lucky if when the next 4 years is over we are still anything close to a republic. Unless Americans wake the hell up and take care of business at the poles in 2 and 4 years. The far left will stop at nothing to transform the USA into their Socialist Vision, and right now the Far left appears in full control of nearly our entire government. Once Obama gets to make a couple Supreme court appointments it will be over for Democracy in America.

You can see this coming not only in the Actions and Words of the leaders of the Left in America, but also in the Words, and Attitudes of the Far left posters on this board.

An Attitude of We know whats best. Republicans and Conservatives are Evil and stupid. People who voted for Bush or Republicans, Are stupid and therefore should not even be able to vote. Basically Self righteousness on a scale of lunacy.

Wake up Americans we are in the midst of a Revolution believe it or not.