"Regular disorder..."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-ryan-abandons-his-promise/2015/11/18/2512fdc6-8e3e-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html
Dana Milbank, the Post's excellent commentator, writes today concerning new House Speaker Paul Ryan's unsubtly abandoning his vow to restore "regular order" -- that is, the Congressional procedures that make it more responsive to all members (including, alas, the "tea-partiers" of the far -- indeed, wacky -- right).
To be sure, the abandonment of "regular order" serves -- guess who? -- those fatuous conservative assholes who grabbed the headlines this week, vowing to turn away Syrian refugees. That's right, the "widows and orphans" seeking refuge here -- who, as President Obama noted, SCARE state governors and other pander-politicos.
As Milbank explains, so-called emergency legislation has been drafted and is being pushed through the House without any protections offered under "regular order" -- no committee hearings, no floor amendments allowed* and no input from the Executive branch.
The result is a bill that supposedly strengthens anti-terrorist vetting (clearance) of refugees -- but in fact it merely slows the effective (and glacial) procedures already in place. Milbank assumes such an abomination would be quickly vetoed by Obama -- leaving Republicans to carp about him being "soft on terror."
In short, Ryan fails his first test, even as he allows knee-jerk rightists to pander to "nativist" extremists. He pleases the assholes while betraying his promises to them...
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* Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked Ryan to allow amendments; he refused.
Dana Milbank, the Post's excellent commentator, writes today concerning new House Speaker Paul Ryan's unsubtly abandoning his vow to restore "regular order" -- that is, the Congressional procedures that make it more responsive to all members (including, alas, the "tea-partiers" of the far -- indeed, wacky -- right).
To be sure, the abandonment of "regular order" serves -- guess who? -- those fatuous conservative assholes who grabbed the headlines this week, vowing to turn away Syrian refugees. That's right, the "widows and orphans" seeking refuge here -- who, as President Obama noted, SCARE state governors and other pander-politicos.
As Milbank explains, so-called emergency legislation has been drafted and is being pushed through the House without any protections offered under "regular order" -- no committee hearings, no floor amendments allowed* and no input from the Executive branch.
The result is a bill that supposedly strengthens anti-terrorist vetting (clearance) of refugees -- but in fact it merely slows the effective (and glacial) procedures already in place. Milbank assumes such an abomination would be quickly vetoed by Obama -- leaving Republicans to carp about him being "soft on terror."
In short, Ryan fails his first test, even as he allows knee-jerk rightists to pander to "nativist" extremists. He pleases the assholes while betraying his promises to them...
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* Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi asked Ryan to allow amendments; he refused.