Commissar Pelosi plans to muzzle any potential GOP opposition to liberal legislation proposed by Democrats. The mechanism she plans to use in order to accomplish this totalitarian form of rule is to abolish House procedures that require that the minority Party have opportunity to debate proposed legislation.
According to Human Events:
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.
The planned rules change was met with outrage by House Republicans, who drafted a letter sent directly to the Speaker, a letter which outlined their reasons for vehemently opposing the rules change.
Again, according to the article,
Pelosi’s proposed repeal of decades-long House accountability reforms exposes a tyrannical Democrat leadership poised to assemble legislation in secret, then goose-step it through Congress by the elimination of debate and amendment procedures as part of America’s governing legislative process.
This kind of behavior on the part of our elected officials should not tolerated in a society that prides itself on open government and dissent, particularly Democratic liberals who talk a good game but behave very differently when they are in power.
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