NLS slaps Colgan in the FACE to Protect Howell???
By Shaun Kenney | Friday, January 28th, 2011 | PolicyJust hours after Senator Chuck Colgan, the most senior member of the State Senate and longtime Democrat condemns the actions of refusing to hear bills shot down in subcommittee, Ben Tribbett over at Not Larry Sabato rushes to Janet Howell’s defense:
First of all, there was no “rule breaking” as RPV alleged. In fact- guess where the rule that was used to not hear these bills came from?
Got your guess ready?
It was the Republicans! GOP Senate Leader Tommy Norment stood up and requested… no he implored Senate Democrats to add this rule to allow the Senate to kill bills in subcommittee to speed up the legislative process.
So have the Senate rules changed? Of course they haven’t. Newsflash: Norment is wrong too.
…and unlike Howell, Norment at least offered an explanation for his reasoning better than “because I said so.”
So instead of apologizing for “because I said so” as a baseball bat for refusing to hear bills in committee, Democrats are going to rush to Howell’s defense with the foil of Tommy Norment? Sorry class… doesn’t wash.
Howell needs to resign as P&E chairman. “Because I said so” is no reason to violate years of accepted tradition, decorum, and civility in the Virginia Senate — not to mention the rules of the committee. Senator Colgan was absolutely correct… and I’m astonished that Democrats would allow bloggers of the other side to trash Colgan’s legacy to protect Howell’s chairmanship — a position she clearly cannot handle and does not merit.
(crossposted to SK.com)
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Shaun Kenney is the Chairman of the Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors, former Communications Director for the Republican Party of Virginia, and an active blogger since 2002. Shaun lives in Thomas Jefferson's backyard with his wife, six children, and a modest attempt at a farm in Kents Store, Virginia.
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9 Responses to "NLS slaps Colgan in the FACE to Protect Howell???"
[...] Kenney highlights attempts by the Left to come to P&E Cmte. Chairman Janet Howell’s defense for the [...]
You would think that Ben “NAMBLA” Tribbett would know something about the need to apologize to people.
I wasn’t going to go there… but the point is WELL taken.
You follow the rules of your own body.
Imagine how it would go over on Capitol Hill if a member of the House got up on the floor and wouldn’t stop talking, then said “well, I was just following the Senate’s rules and they allow fillibusters.”
As Phillip Van Cleave (VCDL) is fond of saying…”elections have consequences” time to take back the senate…see how they like these new “rules” that the Democrats have created out of thin air.
Since Republicans in the Senate were advocating these very rules last year, I’d assume they’d implement them if they took control back.
What’s the connections with NAMBLA?
NJB,
Some of the links may no longer work, but see, for example, here:
http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2007/08/25/roscoe-reynolds-steps-in-it/
Whether on not the new rule was proposed by the Republicans or not and regardless of whether it is a good idea or a bad idea, it apparently was applied inequitably by the majority to Democratic and Republican bills. That is indefensible, even by Ben Tribbett’s tortured logic.
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