From Ann Althouse yesterday:
Is this what it all comes down to in the end, something that we must struggle even to comprehend, let alone swallow?
If it does, how will the members of Congress, when they go home to their
constituents, even begin to explain what they have done?
Citizens are already angry and resistant to the health care bill. Can
you imagine the shouts of derision and outrage that will drown out any
attempt to describe what the hell it means to deem and pass?
ADDED: Think of the legislative process as a long drive through the
mountains and... Oh, no! Up ahead! It's Demon Pass!
AND: Let's start pronouncing the word "Democrats" with a long "e":
Deemocrats. Alternatively: Demoncrats or DemonPassCrats.
This about sums it up.
Funny how when democrats use procedures needed to pass what they want you guys get all upset; but never a peep when Repugs do the same thing.
"Any veteran observer of Congress is used to the rampant hypocrisy over the use of parliamentary procedures that shifts totally from one side to the other as a majority moves to minority status, and vice versa. But I can't recall a level of feigned indignation nearly as great as what we are seeing now from congressional Republicans and their acolytes at the Wall Street Journal, and on blogs, talk radio, and cable news. It reached a ridiculous level of misinformation and disinformation over the use of reconciliation, and now threatens to top that level over the projected use of a self-executing rule by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi."
Posted by: Rand | March 17, 2010 at 03:16 PM
Who are you quoting Rand?
Posted by: Diane | March 17, 2010 at 03:59 PM