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jwhop
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posted January 12, 2007 11:55 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seems the "New" democrats are actin strangly...like the Marxists they really are...which is most un-democratic.

Doin what Marxists always do, these "New" democrats are simply ramming their edicts down everyone's throat...with no discussion, no comment, no amendments and no disagreement allowed.

That's the way, Stalin did it.

That's the way, Hitler did it.

That's the way, Mao did it.

That's the way Ho did it.

That's the way Saddam did it.

That's the way Castro does it.

That's the way Hugo..Chavez does it.

That's the way Kim Jong Il does it.

And now, true to their Marxist ideology, led by Nancy Pelosi, that's the way the "New" democrats are doin it too.

All of which proves what I've been saying for years. There's nothing Democratic about the democrat Party.

RANGEL RANKLED BY FELLOW DEM PELOSI
By GEOFF EARLE Post Correspondent
Today's front page
January 12, 2007

WASHINGTON - Powerhouse New York Rep. Charles Rangel is butting heads with fellow Democrat Nancy Pelosi just a week into the new Congress controlled by their party, The Post has learned.

Rangel yesterday swatted down a tax hike that Pelosi has floated, and he made an end run around her decision to bypass House committees in a rush to bring bills to a vote.

"There's a lot of tension there," one Democratic lawmaker said of the relationship between Rangel and Pelosi.

Rangel, who took over the powerful Ways and Means Committee after 36 years in Congress, smacked down the idea Pelosi raised on Sunday of repealing tax cuts for those earning more than $500,000 per year.

"We haven't gotten that far to be talking about tax increases," Rangel told The Post. "She hasn't discussed it with me . . . We haven't gotten into tax policy."

Pelosi had said nixing tax cuts for half-million-dollar earners "might be more important to the American people than ignoring the educational and health needs of America's children."

But Rangel, whose committee handles tax policy, dismissed Pelosi's idea as unlikely to happen, since the speaker didn't bother to vet it with him in advance.

"Saying it to me in private is far more important than whatever she says nationally," he huffed, referring to her weekend TV appearance.

By calling out Pelosi, Rangel, a liberal firebrand himself, has emerged as the first old-school committee "baron" with the political juice to spar with the ascendant speaker.

In another swat at Pelosi, Rangel sided with Republican lawmakers by opposing his leadership's high-profile push to jam through legislation in the first 100 hours of Democratic rule.

Pelosi decreed that none of the early legislation would go through the normal committee process, hoping to keep her party in lockstep to enact key agenda items and boost her own and the party's national image.

"I don't think the chairman [Rangel] likes the idea that there were no hearings on a lot of the bills that were coming up in the 100 hours," said the Democratic lawmaker.

Sources say Rangel went to Pelosi urging that his committee be allowed to review legislation allowing the feds to negotiate with drug companies over prices and taking away tax breaks for big oil companies - but she refused.

Rangel got around her by setting up closed-door committee forums that were essentially hearings anyway.

Yesterday, the Republican and Democratic committee members met with health experts on the drug bill, and an energy meeting is set for next week.

"He said he was disturbed also," said Rep. Jim McCrery (R-La.), the top Republican on Ways and Means.
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