Rep. Tom Price: Close the Door to a Dangerous Lame Duck Session

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) offered a privileged resolution on the floor of the House of Representatives stating that Congress not circumvent the will of the American people by ramming through unpopular measures during a lame duck session.

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[acharylee77z]

This is one very "lopsided" video. =p

[elihuffman1229]

This video went viral on Abidjan

[ers586]

@Diesel152 Simple, liberties are preserved when the people can change the membership of the legislature every two years, when they can remove the chief executive every four years, and when an independent judiciary has the right to review the constitutionality of actions of the other two branches.

Jefferson is not a useful person to quote on this issue. He certainly didn't "preserve the spirit of resistance" on his plantation.

[ers586]

@bujin21 We saw what the Republicans did when they had control of the government. They gutted the surplus, ignored the infrastructure, blocked vital medical research, imposed unfundated mandates waged wars with borrowed money, ignored illegal immigration, etc. Isn't it reasonable to ask whether they would RESUME these policies should they once more gain power? At least in 1994 the GOP produced their Contract with America which stated an agenda. Why are they silent about their goals today?

[ers586]

@bujin21 Saying "shoot the lame duck and kill it" isn't a harmless remark. We have the Republican candidate for Senator in Nevada threatening "Second Amendment remedies." Talking about "shooting" anyone is beyond the course of normal political discussion.

[ers586]

@bujin21 No one doubts that Jimmy Carter was a man of honesty and integrity, but with limited political experience. Few would argue that his Presidency was successful.

[ers586]

@bujin21 Jefferson was a colonial legislator, governor, state legislator, envoy to France, secretary of state, vice president and president; J Adams was a state legislator, envoy to England, vice president, and president, Madison was a state legislator, congressman, secretary of state, and president. Monroe was a senator, envoy to France, then to England, governor, secretary of state, secretary of war, and president. Wouldn't you call these career politicians?

[bujin21]

@ers586 None of our founding fathers were lifetime politicians actually.  Experience is less important than honesty and integrity, and your surgeon/teacher analogy is comparing apples and oranges.

[bujin21]

@ers586 What about it? Bush isn't in office, Obama is.

Obama is a nightmare for this country.

[ers586]

@JuneV26 Republicans turned the Clinton surplus into a deficit, cut taxes during wartime, spent more time investigating Clinton's sex life then determining whether Iraq actually had wmd, mandated No Child Left Behind w/o providing local schools with enough funding to comply, cut funding for stem cell research, tried to privatize social security, opposed extending unemployment benefits, blocked aid to the first responders of 9/11, and defied majority rule by their repeatedly fillibustering