Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Queen Pelosi Changes the Rules

It truly was too much to ask that Queen Pelosi allow the peasants to have a say in how legislation is written. That would be the reason for rules changes designed to silence the minority. Remember, Queen Pelosi said that the election of more Democrats would create more bipartisanship. I guess shutting up debate is her idea of bipartisanship.

Why, exactly, is Queen Pelosi changing the rules? Because she didn't get to raise taxes enough over the last two years. Republicans effectively used procedural rules to block several tax increases on businesses (which, of course, get paid by consumers) totaling $81.5 billion.

As RedState notes, there's little Republicans can do to block the measure. But what this shows is that "bipartisanship" means "obeisance" to Democrats.