Pelosi’s Privileged Resolution
Today, in a heroic attempt, Nancy Pelosi introduced a Privileged Resolution on Iraq which laid out the crimes of the President Katrina administration and called for the Thug Leaders of the House of Representatives to exercise their oversight responsibilities and “conduct a thorough investigation of of abuses relating to the Iraq War”.
The resolution was tabled by the Thugs in a strict party-line vote, with one Democrat voting with them.
“A vote to table is a vote to cover-up,” Pelosi said. “Congress has the responsibility to find out why so many things in Iraq have gone so terribly wrong. That is why I asked the House to investigate abuses relating to Iraq. Yet, Republicans again thwarted efforts to answer the questions of the American people. This Republican cover-up Congress refuses to live up to its oversight responsibility.”
Here are links to video of Pelosi on the floor today. (I couldn’t get the links to work directly, but I was able to go to the page and download the .wmv files to my hard drive and view them that way)
[If you have to do what I did to get them to play, use this link, then find the picture of Pelosi and right-click on the link below her picture and choose “Save link as…” from the drop down menu….]
This is as much as the House Rules will allow Pelosi to do. The House Rules do not allow for the same kind of actions that Reid took in the Senate, so this is action by Pelosi is the MORAL EQUIVALENT of what Reid was able to do in the Senate when he moved for a closed session recently.
Please let Pelosi know that we appreciate her by contacting her at this link.
I heard this on Ed Schultz during lunch today and in the background you can hear booing and someone telling her she is out of order.
Yes, there was much booing and WHINING! The Thugs were booing a call for accountability, as they love to do.
who was the one Democrat?
This was a good move. Last night DFA meetups across the country got a conference call from Governor Howard Dean and his brother, DFA President Jim Dean.
Dean cited Reid’s invocation of Rule 21 and suggested Democrats have much more up their sleeves if Republicans continue to stonewall. A simple strategy, that Pelosi may have initiated today, is just calling for a vote every day on proposals like raising the minimum wage or eliminating specific pork projects. Get the Republicans on record as voting down common-sense proposals, over and over, every day.
Roll Call vote here
It looks like it was Jim Marshall of Georgia’s 3rd CD.
I hope Pelosi does this every day on a new subject.
My email:
Recently I mailed in your surveys that I had angrily stated that I felt betrayed by Democrats due to their silence of the attrocities.
Nice to see you and Reid speaking up. You have my and my family’s (former Navy family) full support.
It’s about time the Dems fight back! You almost lost this Liberal family.
Good job!!!
Janet ****
Thanks for your action! I, too, am getting a feeling of renewed pride in the Democratic Party. I am still registered with no party, and never will be, but I’m glad to see someone standing up to these criminals in office.