Your voice in Washington has been stolen from you, but is democracy officially dead?

When you voted for a congressman, no matter who it was, you got a person whose job it is, to ensure that they could cast votes on matters of national importance in your name.  But what happens if they don’t get to vote or support the deliberate effort to prevents votes altogether?  Well that’s what we have had for the past two years. 

Despite an approval rating of 9% the Speaker of the House continues the practice of refusing to allow debate or floor votes on any Bill that contradicts her personal policy preferences.  (Even legislation from democrats). That’s not democracy, that’s tyranny. 

So no matter what you may believe, you no longer have a voice in the House of Representatives.  And democrats Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter, who have been goose-stepping dutifully behind Chancellor Pelosi, not only embrace this approach to representative democracy, but overwhelmingly endorse policies that will place even more government power at her feet. 

We need to send a message to Queen Nancy that as Speaker of the House, her job is to add a measure of control to the legislative whirlwind, not to pontificate her policy desires by dictatorial fiat.  Since she has made it clear that she won’t allow any legislation she opposes to get a fair vote on the floor her vote is now the only vote.  One Speaker one vote.  And just in case you forgot, unless you live in her congressional district you can’t directly vote her out of office.

But the people of New Hampshire have two opportunities to attack this abuse of parliamentary power; replace Hodes and Shea-Porter.  Only by electing reps who will challenge Pelosi’s supreme authority can the voice of the people of New Hampshire be heard.  Only then can the people of the nation demand more balance, and a free expression of ideas.  Pelosi is killing democracy.  It’s time to put Queen Nancy’s House in order.