Speaker Pelosi wants to restrict House members’ use of internet

House speaker Nancy Pelosi playing the Nurse Ratched role in our One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Congress has completely lost her own grip on reality. A report on Chicago Boyz has her creating new rules forcing any member of the house to obtain her prior approval before postign any opinion on a blog, message board, twitter, etc.  Not only does this fly in the face of member’s right to freedom of speech, it pretty much voids any credibility Ms Pelosi has as a good steward of “net neutrality”.

 This was first reported to me by Congressman John Culberson (R-Tx) and I asked for approval to cite him and for any media links to this story. He provided the following link of regulations proposed by the Chair of the Congressional Commission on Mailing Standards (PDF) Congressman Michael Capuano (D-Mass) that was sent to Rep. Robert Brady, Chairman of the House Committee for Administration. The net effect of the regs would be to make it practically impossible for members of Congress to use social media tools to discuss official business or share video of the same with the public while creating a partisan disparity in what little approved messages might be permitted. It would be a very considerable error to assume that the House leadership intends to let dissenting Democratic members post any more freely than Republicans. (Chicago Boyz)

Any layman will understand that the imposition of such a rule is unconstitutional.  From a broader perspective, this demonstrates how completely out of touch and power drunk the Congressional leadership is. I hope there are enough wise people left in California to retire the Speaker in the upcoming election.