Politics are and will stay that way: politics! Nobody needs a PHD to know how to use the established rules in his favor whenever it is necessary and to paint his opponent as devil while trying to take advantage of these same rules. You laugh!
We learn that the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may ask the house to pass the United States health care reform bill by using the self-executing rule, H.R 3595. The House Minority Leader John Boehner calls it "the ultimate in Washington power grabs". His colleague the House Republican Conference chairman Mike Pense, R-Ind., named the option "a betrayal of the commitment of every member of this congress to the American people".
Now let's see how many times this rule had been used in the past either by republicans or democrats:
The self-executing rule started in the 1970s....the 95th-98th Congress (1977-1984 the rule was used eight times, 20 times under Speaker O'Neil in the 199th congress and 18 times under Speaker Wright in the 100th Congress (1995-1998). And under Speaker Hastert just before Nancy Pelosi there were 40 self-executing rules in the 106th Congress, 42 in the 107th Congress and 30 in the 108th Congress (1999-2007). Why politicians in Washington have to hide their own records while advertising their opponents' records? SN.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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