What an absolute hot mess today in congress. A review begins with a reminder of the manufactured OrangeManBad outrage du jour. Obviously a cartoon is needed:
As typical in an era where outrage is generally promoted to the level of Moonbat crazy, the circle of stupid was fueled by the media, who fired-up the politicians… who fired-up the outrage protestations… who fueled the media… and thus the circle of stupid continued.All the way to Nancy Pelosi dropping all Speaker pretense of actual legislation, and instead choosing to bring a resolution to the House floor to advance Muh “racist” OrangeManBad.
The debt ceiling needs to be raised.Spending appropriations bills need to be resolved.
Immigration laws need to be fixed.
The border is in crisis.
Infrastructure spending needs to be resolved.
The USMCA needs to be ratified.
Forget all those issues that matter…. what does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi do?
Why, stop everything so she can advance a resolution to prove her squad doesn’t like President Trump.
Pelosi on the flr: There is no place anywhere for the president's words which are not only divisive but dangerous and have legitimized and increased fear and hatred of new Americans and people of color
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2019
Then Pelosi walks out.
Pelosi appears to have left the floor..which is a violation of House Rules themselves when someone’s words are taken down. That’s partly could be why this is taking so long. This is not just a rank and file member. This is the House Speaker.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 16, 2019
Speaker Pelosi turns the Chair over to Emanuel Cleaver.
That didn’t work out too well:
One Dem interviewed by Fox News admitted that they break Parliamentary Rules ALL the time!
That’s why nothing ever gets done.
The last Congressman who really understood and enforced Parliamentary Rule left Congress some time ago.
Not one of them really wants to do all the work of studying those rules and holding their body to those rules.
Now they’re just playing at governance.
In effect, the “Squad” won over Nancy who saw herself as having no viable option but to back them.
But it also proved Nancy can be had.
Maybe her days are numbered in the House.
Pelosi declared she was going to bring ethics back to the House, then she stands by while members of her party trample ethics and then she herself ignores House rules, protocol, decorum simply to show they are still butt-hurt over Trump winning the Presidency.
These people cannot even govern themselves; it would be criminal to ever give them national power.
@Nan G: Queen Nancy is trying desperately to herd her socialist kittens, even resorting to defending those who have no respect whatsoever for her, the House, Congress, the Presidency or the nation.
Turns out Nancy was ashamed (if a Dem can feel shame) because she got caught lying to all of America when she falsely claimed she had already cleared her speech with the House Parliamentarian.
She had not.
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/abandon-chair-house-floor-chaos-pelosi-speech-trump-tweets
Roll Call does not explore the contradiction between Pelosi’s assurance from the parliamentarian and the parliamentarian’s ruling against her. Roll Call simply notes that Collins then moved to strike Pelosi’s words from the record as per the Parliamentarian’s decision. The House defeated Collins’ motion, 190-232.
So, the majority in Congress are throwing out Parliamentary Rule simply because they don’t like how it limits their rabid hatred du jour.
This precedent is more dangerous than any tweet.
@Nan G: And Pelosi unequivocally aligns herself and the entire party with radical, left-wing, socialistic, anti-Semitic, racists that hate America and Americans. Trump played her beautifully.