Correspondent Washington - After starting with a bang, the Republicans have had some disappointments from their first days in the majority. The solemn reading of the Constitution, the flagship event of the week in the House of Representatives, has turned into a farce. The Republicans chose not the original version of 1787 but a text stripped of its most embarrassing passages.None has been elected him to remember that the Founding Fathers gave the slaves a performance worth 3 / 5 th of one person only. The reading took 1 hour 23 minutes to span more and more empty. A tedious ceremony, each speaker is introduced by the emcee, Republican Robert Goodlatte: "I defer to the gentleman from California" ...
The representative of South Carolina, James Clyburn, one of elected African-American, chose to boycott the play, denying the "historical revisionism" of the version. The priest replied that Republicans chose the version "contemporary" of the Charter. During the reading of Article II, Section 1 - the passage which states that one must be born in the United States to run for president - a woman, installed in the public gallery, shouted: "Unless Obama!" betraying his membership in the group "birthers" who cry fraud, despite the birth certificate of Barack Obama dated Hawaii.
The only time the measure of history has been reading the 13th amendment (1865) which states that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any" can not be tolerated in the American union. It was John Lewis, 70, elected from Georgia and former companion of Martin Luther King, who had been instructed to read this excerpt.
While the reading was not yet complete, John Boehner, the new "speaker" of the chamber, had to face the flood of criticism. The press could not understand how Republicans, who vow of chastity tax had already exempted from the rules they themselves had imposed. According to the new republican order, each obligation must be accompanied by a budget cut equivalent.
Except for tax cuts or healthcare reform. Within days, the roles were reversed. These are Democrats who are a joy to accuse the Republicans to put ideology before the real concerns of Americans, namely employment. A seven-hour debate is expected on Wednesday, January 12 the repeal of health reform, a promise to the Tea Party.
And whatever it adds 230 billion deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a bipartisan organization. This will be for the glory, of course, since neither the Senate nor the president did intend to let it defeat a reform that cost them so much. Corine Lesnes
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