House Democrats Try to Rig, then Cancel Vote in U.S. House

UPDATE: House Special Committee to investigate! From the Washington Post:

The agreement to form a special committee was extraordinary. Such powerful investigative committees are usually reserved for issues such as the Watergate scandal and the funneling of profits from Iranian arms sales to the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s.

"I don’t know when something like this has happened before," said House deputy historian Fred W. Beuttler. He called the decision "incredible."

Showing total indifference to the GOP minority House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed GOP concerns: "They’ve just been deluged by the success of the Democrats on behalf of the American people," she said.

Once again, Pelosi is always good for a laugh. Thus far, the government in Iraq has shown more progress on it’s benchmarks than the Pelosi promise to pass a raft of Dem legislation in the "first hundred hours" of the new Congress. A period of time which expired months ago.

As encouraging as the establishment of a special investigative committee is, it can hardly be as reassuring as a totally independent investigation by a Special Prosecutor whose scope of work is broad enough to look at ALL the allegations of impropriety in the House under Democrat rule. I propose we apply the same standards of investigation and scope which Democrats in the Senate currently insist are necessary to investigate Attorney General Gonzales and the Bush Administration.

That would include unfettered subpoena power and the ability to call Nancy Pelosi and other witnesses to testify under oath.

All in favor, say Aye!
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Attempting to steal an election in Florida 2000 and now attempting to erase votes in the U.S. House of Representatives. Have Democrats NO SHAME?

Readers will recall that in the aftermath of the close result in Florida which decided the presidential election in 2000 Democrats insisted "Let every vote count." Well we did count every vote: again and again and again.

But just like the New York Times, who last week took a poll on Iraq and didn’t like the result showing increasing support for the surge and took the poll again (with the same result) Democrats seem to think that when they don’t get the result they want, it’s no big deal to have a "redo" and try again.

That corrupted mode of behavior is one thing when we are talking about a newspaper and quite another when we are talking about a recorded vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Should Illegal Aliens Get Federal Benefits?

But, Thursday night in the U.S. House of Representatives a vote occurred to send the Agriculture Bill back to the originating Committee and remove provisions which provided benefits for illegal aliens.

The vote initially showed that this motion had passed. Yet Democrats controlling the House reported that the vote had failed even though the unofficial tally showed it passing. For a time, Democrats refused to show the vote tally on the electronic House board claiming that the system was "down."

The vote which Democrats finally recorded showed the measure to reconsider extending tax payer benefits to illegal aliens as failing.

House Republicans Fight Back

The action of House Democrats is without precedent. In a Congress which incoming House Speaker Pelosi claimed would be the "most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history" this kind of monkey business has no place.

House Republicans were so incensed that they walked out on a vote to "redo" the previous vote which Democrats clearly lost.

The video of these shocking events is here.

The GOP Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri came back to the House Floor Friday morning and described his feeling of being ASHAMED of the behavior of House Dems.

The video is less than two minutes and highly recommended if you want to understand the issue: