Pelosi’s power grab

(Compiler's note: Thought you'd like to know .... must read.)

by Armand C. Hale

With all the focus on the stimulus bill in the news, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has also effectively moved to SILENCE what CONSERVATIVES are left in Congress, keep the American public in the dark and made a naked grab for power!

On the very first day of Congress, Pelosi pushed through a change to a House rule known as the “motion to recommit,“ a rule that was implemented a CENTURY AGO specifically to PROHIBIT the leadership of the majority party from railroading horrendous legislation through Congress under the cover of darkness.

So what is the “motion to recommit?“ What are the ramifications of doing away with it?

Here are 50 real life examples.

Republicans used the tactic 50 times in the last Congress, primarily to block tax increases buried in larger bills.“ On 50 occasions during the last session of Congress, Pelosi and Company tried to sneak tax increases, anti-Second Amendment measures and amnesty for illegal aliens, among other things into unrelated bills. On those 50 occasions, conservatives exercised their right to send the bills back to committee to FORCE liberal committee members to actually go on record.

Secrecy Is the Liberals’ Favorite Weapon. Seriously, Pelosi and her left-wing cohorts in Congress firmly believe that what YOU don’t know won’t hurt THEM. They believe that as long as you don’t know what they’re up to, they can get away with whatever they want to impose on the American people.

Pelosi is depending on the cover of darkness and the silence of her allies in the media to keep her shenanigans under wraps. The last thing Pelosi wants is for the American people to find out what she has done. The cat is out of the bag. Without the House rule known as the “motion to recommit” the Congress can;

Secretly raise your taxes.

Secretly impose amnesty for illegal aliens on your community and your neighborhood.

Secretly take away your ability to protect your family by regulating away your right to own and keep a firearm.

The list could go on and on.

Right now, Diabolical New Congressional Plans are being placed to Fund Emergency Bail-Outs by Meddling, Manipulating, and Even “Merging” Tax-Deferred Retirement Plans Such as 401(k) s into the Insolvent Social Security System. A Desperately Cash-Strapped Liberal Congress Will Soon Double Cross American Taxpayers and Investors With Massive Changes and Absolutely No Warning.

Congressional committees are already holding hearings on how the government can “tap” millions of 401(k) retirement funds

to stave off the Social Security system’s emerging insolvency crisis. This is What Obama Really Means By “Spreading the Wealth”, it involves your 401K. In fact the radical dominated House Education and Labor Committee are already floating plans to “merge” privately-owned 401K accounts with the Social Security system which former U.S. Comptroller David Walker has been warning is little more than a vault of government IOUs.

In such a “merger” spearheaded by House committee chairman Rep. George Miller, a Marxist hailing from California’s Berkeley area, your tax-sheltered personal investments would be liquidated, dumped into government bonds, and linked up with the cash desperate Social Security “retirement” system. As government bureaucrats “spread the wealth,“ you are reduced to standing in line, hat in hand, hoping you get some portion of your life savings back.

Is this the kind of openness and transparency that Obama promised? This rule change would create the most closed Congress in history. It would silence the voices of tens of millions of Americans by further shutting down open debate on the House floor and taking away the minority’s right to offer substantive policy alternatives on behalf of millions of Americans they represent.“

Legislators are trying to get the message out but they need your help to drive the message home.

It’s a choice between freedom and tyranny. Will you stand up for your freedoms?

That’s your choice!