Madame Chairwoman, You Are Very Smart - So, Please Stop Playing Dumb

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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Madame Chairwoman, You Are Very Smart - So, Please Stop Playing Dumb

House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) has a post over at MyDD attempting to explain the rule she helped craft today that deliberately paved the way for House Dems to deliver a blank check Iraq War funding bill to President Bush. Louise, responding directly to my post earlier today, says there was nothing devious about what went on and that what happened today with the rule vote was just normal, ho-hum, nothing-to-see-here kind of stuff. I really like Louise a lot, and it's unfortunate that she's trying to play dumb in order to pull something of a fast one in her explanation. The letter to her that I pasted in the comments of her MyDD post is reposted in the extended entry.

Louise:

Thanks for this post, but you are very carefully avoiding what you - as Chairman of the Rules Committee - know quite well is the crux of the issue. Everyone who knows anything about Congress knows that the power of Congress rests in its rules, and in the majority bringing rules to the floor with their own underlying bill.