Alex Seitz-Wald at ThinkProgress:
Speaker Cuts Off C-SPAN Cameras When Dems Attempt To Bring Vote
On Payroll Tax Cut — During a quick
pro-forma session of the House this morning, Republicans rebuffed a Democratic
attempt to force an up-or-down vote on the Senate-passed payroll tax holiday
extension, which Republicans have thus far refused to allow. . . . .
And so goes the complaint from the Marxist Left at “Think Progress.” What the foreigners at “Progress” don’t tell
you is this: there was, indeed, an up or down vote on the bill. The senate had their vote, also. The
next step is NOT a vote in either of the two houses of congress, but,
rather, a meeting of conference
committee to work out a compromise
-- something the Democrats no
longer do (since obama took office ) but,
which has been done decades.
Understand that the Democrats want the governmental processes to appear broken so
they can simply legislate into existence a new government process without
having one of those pesky constitutional crisis.
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