Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
HOUSE LEADERSHIP INVOKES “MARTIAL LAW,” FORCING MEMBERS TO VOTE ON KEY BILLS WITHOUT FULL KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THEY ARE VOTING ON: MOVE REPRESENTS EROSION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
....Among the matters the House may be asked to vote on under martial law are a major conference report on pension legislation, a costly bill that would permanently reduce the estate tax and extend certain expiring tax provisions, and a bill that could combine a controversial health insurance proposal with an increase in the minimum wage (there also are reports that the estate tax, minimum wage, and expiring tax provisions may be combined into a single bill). The House Rules Committee on Thursday afternoon reported a resolution that would provide martial law authority in relation to all of these bills.
Others sound the alarm.
It's perfectly understandable how Reaganism, on its deathbed, can only understand the onrush of oblivion within the metaphorical frame of a declaration of martial law.
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | September 29, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Wealth Transfer by other means.
Posted by: Phil | September 29, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Yes.
(I don't think the quotation is attributable to Robert Greenstein or CBPP. Hoax.)
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | September 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Bondage services ALWAYS need to be paid for .. no "love" there.
Posted by: JJ Commoner | September 29, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Even with the absence of love there's usually a cowboy that the chippies favor.
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | September 30, 2008 at 12:01 AM
Ike, what led you to conclude the quote was a hoax?
Posted by: Phil | September 30, 2008 at 12:04 AM
The content of the "quotation" reiterates the views of a deranged conservative Texan and has nothing in common with the official press releases on the CBPP website? Maybe I was too quick.
Posted by: Ikorush sikorsky | September 30, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Looks like he said it, but in 2006.
link
Posted by: Martial Law invoked in House? | September 30, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Ah. A liberal think tanker's hissy fit from two years earlier taken out of context in a vain attempt to enlist an alarmed public to perform CPR on the corpse of Reaganism.
What an unusual tactic. I'm surprised.
Posted by: ikorush sikorsky | September 30, 2008 at 12:28 AM
Denny has hissy, too:
September 29, 2008
“Is this the United States Congress or the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs?" Rep. Dennis Kucinich Rejects $700 Billion Bailout
loosely, "What's the rush?"
Posted by: Martial Law invoked in House? | September 30, 2008 at 12:53 AM