Pelosi Wants Ethics Probe of Deficit Bill

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded an ethics investigation Thursday into the passage of deficit-reduction legislation that President Bush recently signed, a new twist in an episode of Capitol intrigue that blends election-year politics and questions of constitutional law.

"Republican leaders chose to ignore House rules, precedent and even the Constitution itself" in sending the politically charged measure to the White House, said Pelosi, D-Calif.

She said the legislation was defective because it had cleared the two houses in different forms, and added that Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., "knew full well this was an invalid bill."

Republicans, citing an 1894 court precedent, say the measure is valid because top House and Senate leaders put their own signatures on the bill before it was sent to the White House.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_go_co/democrats_budget

[Atman]

1. Looks like job a for AlitoMan And Roberts!

:eyes:

Why am I not surprised?

[NanceGreggs]

2. "... even the Constitution itself."

Gotta love that Nancy - she's so old fashioned, she thinks the Constitution is still in effect.

[babylonsister]

3. It's been a bad week, as far as I feel. What happened?

I know you are a great writer, live in Canada, and care. Damn, come to think about it, you have it all figured out!

[NanceGreggs]

5. Hey, Babylonsister!

Haven't come across you in the treads for a while. How are you?

Yeah, it's been a bad week. Cheney walks away from a situation that would have landed the rest of us poor citizens in the Crowbar Hotel for the rest of our natural lives. The WH, incredibly busy illegally spying on US citizens, still finds the time to support Texas redistricting, even though it's been shown to be totally illegal.

Diebold gets a foothold in California, Katrina victims are getting thrown out of hotels while thousands of unused trailers become art sculptures ("An Ode to Rust" - appearing soon at a gallery near you), and Bush decides that the best way to keep a 'vigilant eye' on Arabs with Al Qeada ties is to let them control US ports -- "Well, at least we'll know where they are, heh, heh!"

The Administration still can't find Osama bin Forgotten, the 40-minute tape of a conference call on the day the levees broke, or a hairdresser that can make Donald Rumsfeld look like he's not a character in a 1940's B-movie, while he tells us we're not up-to-date enough to deal with the 21st Century propaganda tactics necessary to win the hearts and minds of the people we're torturing and killing.

The country is broke, the military is over-extended, the entire globe is unified in their hatred of our country (Well, he said it best - he's a Uniter, not a Divider), and while Greenland is melting it's comforting to know that there's no such thing as Global Warming - it's just some scientifical crapola being put out there by tree-huggin' hippies who know nothing about environmental strategery.

Other than that, everything is peachy-keen.

"But tomorrow is another day," said Scarlett, and so do I -- although she said it in a lilting southern accent, and a much better dress.

[babylonsister]

7. Well, there you go, NancyGreggs!

The country is broke, and you silly person you, you're outa here but feel our pain.
I feel our pain but have to think it's not "that" bad. But please, submit your writings
to every place you can because you tell the story as I would like to. And might I add,
you are not only prolific, but funny? I really admire your writing, Ms. Gregg!

And as far as TX redistricting, it ain't over til it's over. I was told that that's a
cursory thing the Feds do when it's a federal case. We shall see. And here's the thread:
David Van Os is the guy running for AG who enlightened me:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x26653

[understandinglife]

4. K&R.

Peace.

[madmark]

6. bring the damn suit

[Up2Late]

8. Good for her, this sort of crap has to be stopped!

You folks who still have your vote counted need to do something, before you end up like us here in Georgia. We can cast votes till the cows come home, but with Diebold counting them, these votes are completely meaningless.

[SammyBlue]

9. An arcane 1894 court precedent is what they use? Interesting

They want to undo a 1973 court precedent, and all the 1960s Warren court precedents on the rights of the accused.

Funny how these Republican cocksuckers use the court when it suits them!

[jamesinca]

10. I am curious what that 1894 law was

Where would I find that? I am sure I could read through the transcript of the House, but that is a lot of reading if I don't know the day that it was cited on. If there is an 1894 precedent, does the Honorable N. Pelosi have a case?

[salin]

11. It must be something that

has been classified that Dick Cheney declassified just in time to be used as a justification for the House GOP.

[Spinzonner]

12. Republic Party - the Extra-Constitutional Party

[reprobate]

14. Republican Party-the RICCO party.

[enough]

13. Kick for Nancy P.

[2QT2BSTR8]

15. And the top 10 worst presidential blunders are...

Doesn't this story just make you sick?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/18/president.mistakes.ap/index.html
posted: Saturday, February 18, 2006; Posted: 7:00 p.m. EST (00:00 GMT)

It is obvious that the University of Louisville's McConnell Center has no knowledge of a man that 40% of American citizens think is a complete idiot. Can someone put this story to header, as I would like my fellow DUers list all of the blunders that King George has done in his so called Presidency?

[central scrutinizer]

16. Why not just vote on blank pieces of paper

then let the corporate lobbyists and Bushco pioneers fill in the annoying, irrelevant little details later. It's not like the MSM will wake up and call them on it.

[schrodingers_cat]

17. It gets worse...$2 BILLION worse.......

Budget glitch ignites partisan battle in House
GOP squelches bid by Pelosi to probe how bill advanced
Edward Epstein, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, February 17, 2006

Washington -- A clerical error, albeit a whopping $2 billion one, became the latest focus Thursday of bitter partisan tensions in the House.

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, was stifled in her attempt to get the House Ethics Committee to investigate how the House approved and sent to President Bush for his signature earlier this month legislation she says Republican leaders knew contained a provision the chamber had never voted on.
<snip>
In the back-and-forth between the two houses, the Senate voted for a 13-month provision, which House and Senate negotiators had agreed to in the $39 billion cost-savings budget bill. But a clerk in the Senate incorrectly wrote 36 months as the bill was prepared to be sent back to the House for final passage. "They know this is wrong,'' Pelosi charged. "If this isn't stopped, they can send anything to the president. This is unconstitutional.''
<snip>
Democrats charge that the House Republican leadership doesn't want to reopen the legislation because the controversial bill, which involved cuts in many popular programs, passed barely on a 216-214 vote.
<snip>
In the Senate, the bill passed only with the tie-breaking vote cast by Vice President Dick Cheney.
<snip>
The latest mess is already the subject of a lawsuit brought by an Alabama attorney who says that any schoolchild who has taken a civics class knows that the president can only sign a bill with identical wording in its House- and Senate-passed versions.

edit to add link.....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/17/MNGEVHA7BC1.DTL&hw=Pelosi&sn=001&sc=1000