[MENTION=20450]MarcATL[/MENTION] @
Howey
She announced that she would fill the five Democratic spots on the panel that was established earlier this month over Democrats' objections and even threats that they would boycott the investigations.
That's not my issue. I was against boycotting the panel.
You're avoiding my question.
Why was Pelosi only allowed to appoint five members of the committee instead of seven?
I answered your question, are you stupid or something?
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. Can you name me one committee that had equal representation by the Republicans when Pelosi was Speaker and the Democrats had the majority in the House? No you can't, because the Democrats wouldn't allow it.
You see, Congress wasn't actually set up for a two Party system. The House members elect a Speaker and it's the Speaker's duty to appoint members to committees, nowhere is it require that there be equal representation in these committees, because the Constitution doesn't recognize Political Parties, they didn't exist as such when the Constitution was written. Now, The Democrats have never given equal representation to Republicans and now they cry because they don't have it? Disgusting!
Remember the howls from the Democrats when the Republicans threatened to change the filibuster rules so they could get some Bush appointees approved after the Democrats blocked his appointees for over a year?? NO? Short memory?? Or just too young to remember it? Yet, Harry Reid, the loudest howler when the Republicans threatened to do it, changed the rules so Obama could get his far Left Radical appointees through.
You see? The majority Party get's the Speaker's seat because they vote for their Party candidate. The Committees are not set up in a for, and against configuration. the members are all supposed to be after the truth, but the Democrats are never after the truth, they always put Party ahead of the Country and the truth. example: the Clinton impeachment trial, not one Democrat entered the evidence room and viewed the evidence, not one!
The Republicans always go after the truth, examples: the Watergate Hearings, and the guns for hostages hearings. In these the Democrats had the majority but the Republicans still went after the truth.