Nancy Pelosi rules!

[Van Cruncheon]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/reportsfromabroad/champblog/2006/10/nancy_pelosis_tough_new_rules.html

Here are some of the new rules Pelosi wants:

No House member may accept any gift of any value from lobbyists, or any firm or association that hires lobbyists.

No free travel, which means an end to the corporate jet line every Friday at Reagan National Airport.

No free tickets to Redskins games; or no meals of any value, even at a McDonalds; no front-row seats at entertainment venues. No, no and no.

Temptations resisted
To reduce temptations to cheat, Pelosi's bill attacks the usefulness of members to richly endowed lobbyists.

House members will no longer be able to slip in special-interest projects on unrelated legislation. Such measures will no longer be allowed on a bill once negotiations between the Senate and House are complete.

Further, all bills will be made available to the public a full 24 hours before a final vote; presumably this gives watchdog groups a chance to flag any skullduggery.

A giant potential blow struck against K-Street interests and the Republican practice of slipping special interest riders into general public welfare bills. Hooray!

[Human Snorenado]

While I like the specifics of this particular plan, in general I don't find her liberal enough for my tastes.  I wish she would do something cool, like building a catapult on Capitol Hill to lob fetuses at the White House.

[The Fake Shemp]

All bark, no bite. Nothing will happen.

[Cheebs]

Nancy Pelosi is so awesome. I hope she can remain leader longer than 2 years, we HAVE a lot to clean up from the last 12 years of Republican mess in the congress, we need longer than 2 years to do it.

Right now the Dem's are fighting over who should be the new majority leader now that Pelosi got promoted. It's down to the boring
Steny Hoyer


and the fucking awesome
JACK MURTHA!


Murtha is a badass and Pelosi backs him for majority leader. HE NEEDS TO BE IT

[The Fake Shemp]

I predict the Democrats will repeat the same rhetoric on political talk shows, do very little and we wait until we get another mediocre President.

[Phoenix Dark]

All bark, no bite. Nothing will happen.

Most likely you're right; this is more of a vehicle to get people riled up (in a good way), and they'll forget whether the plan was actually implemented...because they'll have no way of knowing most likely lolz

But still...

House members will no longer be able to slip in special-interest projects on unrelated legislation. Such measures will no longer be allowed on a bill once negotiations between the Senate and House are complete.

That would be pretty awesome

[Loki]

All bark, no bite. Nothing will happen.

[Human Snorenado]

All bark, no bite. Nothing will happen.

Holy crap, it's the shortest Loki post in all of existence!  You do realize that this tears at the fabric of space-time, yes?

[Cheebs]

JACK MURTHA MAJORITY LEADER

[Loki]

Holy crap, it's the shortest Loki post in all of existence!  You do realize that this tears at the fabric of space-time, yes?

Maybe all the lobbyists will be sucked into the black hole I've just created!

(note: this is the second shortest Loki post ever )

[MrAngryFace]

But, what will they do without McDonalds?

[Phoenix Dark]

Page Sandwiches































I kid I kid

[Mupepe]

But, what will they do without McDonalds?

Seriously.  This is a question that needs to be answered.

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Nancy Pelosi is so awesome. I hope she can remain leader longer than 2 years, we HAVE a lot to clean up from the last 12 years of Republican mess in the congress, we need longer than 2 years to do it.

A-fuckin-men.

[MrAngryFace]

Im just glad the McDonalds and Politician issue is being kept IN CHECK

[APF]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111400637.html

[Cheebs]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111400637.html

Whats tha have to do with the house