Here’s Norm Ornstein on “Deem and Pass,” which is going to be joining Ruby Ridge and the Trilateral Commission in the roiling stew of resentment and fantasy in these American Gothics’ (the one on the right is a dead ringer for the woman) camo-helmeted heads:
In the last Congress that Republicans controlled, from 2005 to 2006, Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier used the self-executing rule more than 35 times, and was no stranger to the concept of “deem and pass.” That strategy, then decried by the House Democrats who are now using it, and now being called unconstitutional by WSJ editorialists, was defended by House Republicans in court (and upheld). Dreier used it for a $40 billion deficit reduction package so that his fellow GOPers could avoid an embarrassing vote on immigration
Of course, to these yahoos, “unconstitutional” pretty much works out to “majority rule, when it isn’t us.”
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