Nancy Pelosi will apparently rewrite House rules to allow tax hikes without votes.

Ok, Republicans: Whine or fight?

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Update: Retreat! Nancy does an Emily Litella.

Rep. Eric Cantor’s office blogged.

More at RedState.

John Hinderaker at Power Line gives due credit to House Republicans:

Let’s give some credit to conservatives in the House. The conventional wisdom is that in the House, unlike the Senate, the minority is more or less powerless. But the House Republicans seem to be well led and to be using effective tactics. They have foiled a number of pieces of bad and unpopular legislation with motions to recommit; hence today’s effort by the Democrats to change the rules to take that option away from the minority.

Let’s have more.