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Nancy Pelosi’s Heavy-Handed Reign
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her Democrat allies are poised to rewrite House rules today, ending term limits for committee chairmen and curtailing a procedural motion for Republicans to offer alternative legislation. Changing the rules will make it easier for Democrats to raise taxes without opposition. Republicans successfully used the “motion to recommit” several times in the 110th Congress, often frustrating Pelosi. The GOP’s crafty efforts on the House floor halted tax increases by forcing the legislation back to House committees. (See the table below for some examples.) ...

What Came First, The DeMint Or The Madoff?
DownWithTyranny! — ... implemented today by Nancy Pelosi-- which, despite GOP whining and squawking still allows them to offer amendments, just doesn't let them kill bills on a whim-- will help move bills along that might reinstitute sane regulatory guidelines trashed by Bush and the Republicans, to such disastrous consequences, over the past decade.

Giving Obama ‘A Chance’… Or Not
RedState: Conservative News and Community — America has always had a great tradition, one mature for it’s age and true at birth, of the peaceful turnover of power from one faction to another. Never have Americans rioted when a president of another party took his seat in the White House, never has the military been called in and never has government been wholly shut down during the turnover of power because of political strife and unrest. This is, it cannot be denied, a good thing. It is one of the things that makes the USA’s unique among the history of nations. But, does this relative good sense include the necessity of one party giving the new president of the opposing party ...