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Nancy Pelosi’s Heavy-Handed Reign
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... 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. ( ...

Pelosi's Power Play: Do the Blue Dogs only bark?
The Next Right — ... The news reports today detail how Madame Speaker has, with the likely tacit approval of the incoming president, decided to embrace her own versions of "Hope" and "Change": changing the rules of the House of Representatives back to the pre-Newt days in the hope of quashing all dissent and opposition in order to protect her caucus from politically tricky votes, and ...

Institutions and Health Care
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... For this reason, it's good that Pelosi is taking away tools allowing for minority vetoes in the House of Representatives, and it's black comedy for Congressional Republicans to claim that making it more difficult to quietly thwart majority-favored legislation without an up-or-down vote is a blow to "transparency" and "fairness."

Pelosi’s power move leaves House Republicans fuming
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Joe is off dealing with a very nasty cold that has been going around, but he asked me to post about this. He says this is big. The article in the The Hill doesn't really explain what the rule changes do. Pelosi ...

Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog — Ross Douthat on just war and modern warfare. Nancy Pelosi abolishes term limits for committee chairmanships. Jeb Bush won't run for Senate in 2010. Obama predicts "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come." Gallup reports that a majority of Americans think Burrris should be blocked. Arlen Specter blasts AG nominee Eric Holder.

What Came First, The DeMint Or The Madoff?
DownWithTyranny! — ... House Financial Services Committee has come to the conclusion that SEC field personnel shouldn't be blamed for not uncovering Madoff's scheme, even though a whistleblower raised concerns almost 10 years ago, concerns that were not pursued by the agency's enforcement division. The Democrats want to put more regulation and more law enforcement into place while Republicans, of course, are resisting and trying to place the blame on "bad apples." And so it goes. Let's hope that the House rules changes implemented today by Nancy Pelosi-- which, despite GOP whining and ...

Baroness Pelosi Reverses Reform
Stones Cry Out — ... Nancy Pelosi has approved new rules for the House that will keep the old boy (or girl) network firmly in place.  In 1995, when the Contract With America propelled Republicans into Congress, one of the points of the contract was to limit the terms of committee chairs so that you remove the ability of one Representative to rule the roost until they retired or died.  This reduces the opportunity for corruption to build up over time or last for decades. It brings in new blood to bring new eyes to the issues.  ...

Laugh Of The Day
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... since that article was written, with the Speaker taking away the ability of Republicans to engage in motions to recommit and cutting Republicans completely out of the process when it came to crafting a stimulus package. Either the Speaker should stand up a proudly embrace her partisanship or she should strive to be the non-partisan figure she claims to be. But she shouldn't lie to people.