PDA

View Full Version : Key House Democrat: "There Are No Rules Here ... We Make Them Up As We Go Along"




FrankRep
03-21-2010, 09:33 AM
Key House Democrat: "There Are No Rules Here ... We Make Them Up As We Go Along"


Rep. Alcee Hastings invokes Thomas Edison: ‘No rules around here — we’re trying to accomplish something’
http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/03/rep-alcee-hastings-invokes-thomas-edison-no-rules-around-here-were-trying-to-accomplish-something/

Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D - FL)
http://alceehastings.house.gov/


YouTube - Key House Democrat: "There Are No Rules Here ... We Make Them Up As We Go Along" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHTJSu_2Lk)

sevin
03-21-2010, 10:05 AM
at least he's honest

Bern
03-21-2010, 10:18 AM
So, this *is* Nam.[/Walter Sobchak]

DapperDan
03-21-2010, 10:45 AM
This is the same guy who was a judge back in the 80s and was impeached for corruption/perjury yet the drones elected him into Congress? :<

Matthew Zak
03-21-2010, 10:59 AM
This is an out of context clip. It sounds to be like he's trying to refute claims that they make up the rules as they go along.

Bern
03-21-2010, 11:18 AM
This is an out of context clip. It sounds to be like he's trying to refute claims that they make up the rules as they go along.

You can watch the whole video on the CSPAN website. Here's a larger transcript of what he said:
Hastings said it was time to “stop all of the rhetoric and get to the business of what’s at hand. The fact of the matter is that a lot of our fellow Americans are hurting and they don’t have affordable health care and for the life of me I cannot understand why we all should not be willing to share in order to help the least of them.”
...
“I wish that I had been there when Thomas Edison made the remark that I think applies here: ‘There ain’t no rules around here — we’re trying to accomplish something.’ And therefore, when the deal goes down, all this talk about rules, we make ‘em up as we go along, and I’m here now 18 years, and a significant amount of that time here on this committee under the leadership of the Republicans…”

FrankRep
03-21-2010, 11:19 AM
This is an out of context clip. It sounds to be like he's trying to refute claims that they make up the rules as they go along.


http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/03/rep-alcee-hastings-invokes-thomas-edison-no-rules-around-here-were-trying-to-accomplish-something/

South Florida’s own U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, is taking heat in the conservative blogosphere (http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2NiYTQyMGE3OGZmZDY0M2ZlMjM2N2YxNjk2NDkyMTU=) today for remarks at a Rules Committee hearing in which he defended a controversial “deem and pass” strategy for approving health care overhaul that Democratic leaders ended up abandoning.

(Click here to see Hastings’ entire statement (http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/03/20/HP/A/30894/House+Rules+Committee+Weekend+Meeting.aspx), which begins at 4:44 on the C-SPAN video.)

Hastings said Republicans often used the same tactic when they were in charge of the House from 1995 to 2007. Hastings said it was time to “stop all of the rhetoric and get to the business of what’s at hand. The fact of the matter is that a lot of our fellow Americans are hurting and they don’t have affordable health care and for the life of me I cannot understand why we all should not be willing to share in order to help the least of them.”

Hastings then added:

“I wish that I had been there when Thomas Edison made the remark that I think applies here: ‘There ain’t no rules around here — we’re trying to accomplish something.’ And therefore, when the deal goes down, all this talk about rules, we make ‘em up as we go along, and I’m here now 18 years, and a significant amount of that time here on this committee under the leadership of the Republicans…”

Edison is widely quoted as saying “Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.”

Bucjason
03-21-2010, 11:54 AM
freakin fascists...

Uncle Emanuel Watkins
03-21-2010, 12:19 PM
freakin fascists...

Fascism? That's a European thing. I'm an American which means that my nation was founded on a self evident and unalienable Truth. This means that I need no further political manipulation as the people's Civil Purpose supercedes all legal precedence, every past tradition, as well as every event yet to occur.
If a member of the head government, the necessary tyranny established by our Founding Fathers to serve the people's Civil Purpose, then I won't have to legislate, won't have to administer, and won't have to judge.
Whenever we judge and administer by legislation, judge and legislate by administration, and administer and legislate through the judicial process, we are partaking in a promiscuity beyond that which is necessary to serve the people's Civil Purpose.
All partaking in this tyranny are in contempt of the Truth and will be judged accordingly. As the Ten Commandments are now in Contempt of the New Covenant, all legal precedence is in contempt of the people's Civil Purpose.