Ryan Justifies Secret, No debate or up/down vote in House, because of Democrats. Where’s the voter outrage…again?

Things are so bad now, even worse than the Great Recession, that thing about deliberation and debate, forget it.

Despite years of whining about, and demanding transparency, our new House Republican “rulers” are subject to a different standard and one that changes on a whim. Rep. Paul Ryan’s take no prisoners, uncompromising philosophy cannot be questioned. He doesn't have to listen to us. And he’s loaded with excuses, all six of them to justify his ultimate power, even if it “flies in the face of GOP promises of transparency.”

The Hill: (1)“It now falls to the 112th Congress to develop a budget for the U.S. government, (2) yet there is currently no budget enforcement mechanism to account for taxpayer dollars. Ryan noted that (3) the budget authority he would be granted had been granted to the chairman of the committee in the 1990s as well. Ryan said (4) that he will use the power to try to bring non-security spending levels back to 2008 levels. (5) “I plan to file a discretionary spending limit that would take non-security spending back to its pre-bailout, pre-stimulus spending levels ... (6) it's a step we must take, and we must take it now," he added.

No debate, no amendments, do openness or transparency. That’s what the voters wanted, right? Thom Hartmann put it this way:

Among these new rules: each new piece of legislation will now be required to include a statement regarding its constitutionality - also the Democrats' previous rule known as PAYGO - which required all new spending legislation to be paid for by cuts to other programs - will be dismantled to exclude tax cuts for rich people from having to be paid for. Say hello to even higher deficits thanks to tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.