Bruce Bartlett: An Oct. 3 report in the Boston Globe recounts many of the ways in which the old Imperial Congress is back with a vengeance. It explains how bills are brought to the floor with no hearings or mark-ups by the committees of jurisdiction, no committee reports, and in many cases without even a printed bill that members can study. It tells how the House Rules Committee routinely rewrites bills, bottles up those opposed by the leadership even when they have majority support in the House, and often meets in secret in the dead of night to prevent Democrats from knowing what is going on.... It looks more and more like the Republicans have become the Democrats they overthrew in 1994.