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May 05, 2008
Shocker: Congressional GOP Weak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Operating outside public view, the House Democratic majority is taking extraordinary steps to maintain spending as usual while awaiting a Democrat as president. Remarkably, the supine House Republican minority hardly resists and even collaborates with its supposed adversaries.So I guess they weren't content with simply losing control of Congress. Now they're well on their way to allowing the Democrats to have veto-proof majorities. Only the GOP could give legislative victories to two of the least effective Congressional leaders in recent political history.There has been little or no public Republican protest over seizure of the appropriating process by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her clique. For the second straight year, no appropriations bill other than defense is scheduled for passage. Instead, spending details are crafted in the Speaker's Office, negating President George W. Bush's veto strategy. In a little-noticed maneuver April 23, Pelosi won passage of a bill preventing Medicaid billions from being saved through Bush administration regulations. Despite the GOP leadership's nominal opposition, House Republicans voted for higher spending by two to one.
Posted by slublog at May 5, 2008 02:29 PM
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That’s right, doses. Guess almost everybody that voted so far in the latest NRE poll is going to be disappointed if the GOP finds this post, but I can’t NOT comment on this trifecta.
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As a friend of mine would say, "That's why the GOP is the Stupid Party".
Posted by: steveegg at May 5, 2008 06:27 PM