House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already revealed the politics of the coming two years, at least.

She announced radical new rules for the House following her narrow decision, 216-209, to keep the job during the current session

She and her caucus stuck it to conservatives by weakening the “motion to recommit,” about the only rule benefiting the minority party.

Mike Howell, attorney and senior advisor for executive branch relations at the Heritage Foundation, explained how this works.

The new rules take the teeth out the motion to recommitby making it a simple “motion to delay consideration,” by sending the bill back to the committee of jurisdiction and eliminating any time for debate.

He said Pelosi’s caucus flirted with eliminating the motion to recommit altogether until Jim McGovern, D-Mass., pointed out:

“Having not too long ago been in the minority, I want to make sure whatever we’re talking about, that there’s some protection of minority rights.”

No Interest in Protecting Minority Rights

Pelosi’s Democrat majority demonstrated it will not tolerate any diverse opinions and has no interest in protecting minority rights.

Additionally the new rules aim to rid the house of “gendered language.” This means the House eliminates terms such as father, mother, daughter grandmother and grandfather.

Howell points out that the Pelosi rules continue the policy of many of her fellow leftists.

He relates that Pelosi’s Twitter bio reads in part “mother, grandmother, dark chocolate connoisseur.”

In other words, rules are for conservatives only; Pelosi and fellow leftists can do as they please.

Howell explains further:

PAYGO Dumped

The left also has dreams for major budget-busting, federal-takeover legislation, such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. In order to make that easier, the new rules package exempts certain legislation from what is known as PAYGO, short for “pay as you go.”

PAYGO, which long has been skirted in Congress, generally requires that new legislation that affects revenues and spending doesn’t increase budget deficits.

This rules package anticipates that several pieces of legislation with the highest costs in our nation’s history would be unsuccessful under PAYGO rules. So, the majority scraps the rule altogether for legislation dealing with climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic.

Censor and Punish

When it comes to social media, Pelosi is taking a page out of Big Tech’s book: censor and punish. House members who share “manipulated media,” defined as “any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with intent to mislead the public,” will be subject to reprisal.

The problem with this rule is not that members should be publishing “deep fake”-style videos, but with the vague language that can be used to unjustly punish political enemies.

For instance, would a Photoshopped image count? A clipped video? A parody? One needs to look no further than Big Tech’s selective censorship to find examples of how such a rule can be abused.

Go Broke for Woke

The proposed new rules also “go broke for woke” by permanently establishing an Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The goal of the office would be to direct and guide House employment offices to “recruit, hire, train, develop, advance, promote, and retain a diverse workforce.”

Simply stated, this is the first step toward affirmative action and quotas in hiring House staff.

Finally, the proposed rules contain provisions for beefing up congressional oversight authorities, which in fact are constrained by the Constitution, as opposed to House rules. Specifically, the rules state that any current and former White House officials can be subpoenaed.

This is a nod to the intent of the House to continue its circus-like, vitriolic hearings aimed not at producing legislation but at generating ready-made-for-Twitter viral moments.

All in all, the proposed rules are less of a surprise than a confirmation of what has been expected for the 117th Congress. Expect more wokeness, rejection of minority input, financial recklessness, and show trials to be the major themes for the next two years.