CELEBRANTS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared a signed copy of the Wall Street bailout plan Friday with Rep. Barney Frank (left), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. Other pleased with their work are Reps. James E. Clyburn (second from left), Steny H. Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times
Celebrating at our expense. That’s just the beginning:
A landslide victory next Tuesday would give Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshape government policy dramatically.
By controlling the White House and expanding their Senate majority, Democrats would remove the most reliable weapons used by the GOP to block their agenda: the filibuster and the veto.
Those tools have thwarted Pelosi (Calif.) and Democrats since they won the majority in both chambers, leaving bills affecting labor law, healthcare and other issues to die in the Senate or on the president’s desk.
With those obstacles removed, Democrats could quickly push forward with legislation allowing labor unions to organize without secret-ballot elections and a bill expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Other possibilities include the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which would overturn a Supreme Court decision restricting equal pay lawsuits; a measure that would narrow the role of a “supervisor” for collective bargaining purposes; and a mandate for paid sick leave for companies with 15 or more employees who work at least 30 hours a week ” all left over from the last Congress.
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“The most reliable weapons used by the GOP to block their agenda: the filibuster and the veto.â€
Um, didn’t Senate Republican’s almost get rid of the Filibuster a couple years ago? And didn’t almost everyone this web site support their effort?
Just curious:..
It was only you and I in the discussion Zelda.
Democrat post-election agenda:
1. Gas to reach $6/gallon
2. saddle U.S. industry with new taxes, costs of Global warming initiatives, and other nonsense to damage them further. The industries that can’t leave will be even less able to compete in the global market.
3. Destruction of talk radio and Free Speech by reviving the “Fairness Doctrine”.
Thank you Pam or Peejz. Whatever you like to be named.
As I remember there was far more discussion then the one debate you listed. But alas I can’t search the archives like I used to so I must depend on my memory of a debate from 3 1/2 years ago.
Either way. I think it’s good that the measure didn’t pass. What do you think Pam?
Zelda, it is impossible to get rid of the filibuster on legislation. It’s in the Constitution. The ONLY discussion about getting rid of a filibuster was the Democrats using it as an unconstitutional means to interfere with the President’s Constitutional ability to appoint judges to the federal benches. While the Senate has the duty to approve all judicial appointments, it has been historically customary for the judiciary committee to review the person’s qualifications, NOT THEIR POLITICAL LEANINGS, and then recommend approval for anyone qualified. The Democrats, instead of allowing a simple yes or no vote on nominees (which they knew they would LOSE) were filibustering nominees to prevent them from even getting a yes or no vote based solely on their political leanings. i.e. strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution, or a liberal judicial activist in a black robe. It was unprecedented, it was unconstitutional and should’ve been stopped as it kept perfectly qualified people from being appointed solely because the Dems didn’t like that the people wouldn’t legislate from the bench.
If you think the economy sucks now, let the Libs have their way for two more years. This country will be so far into the crapper that these will be the good old days. Here come those double digit unemployment figures, double digit inflation, gas shortages, food shortages, and 21 percent fixed rate mortgages. Ah yes the policies of the Carter Administration return. They’ve been gone just long enough for enough voters that didn’t live through them the first time to reach voting age to try those failed policies ONE MORE TIME.
Hey Robert. Will you do me a favor? Don’t start the revolution without me. Then again, I have been offered a job in India and it is getting more and more tempting every day.
“If you think the economy sucks now, let the Libs have their way for two more years.”
I agree, and it might be worth if we chalk it up to the cost of lessons learned, i.e. the sheeple being reminded again what happens when Democrites have a death-grip on the Gov’t. But I am afraid they will successfully (with the help of the MSM) blame it on Bush as a legacy and the new Obama generation will be too dumbed down to figure out they are being lied to. Then we will be SERIOUSLY in trouble.
India? What would you be doing there?