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Are the “100 Hours” Over YET?

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Many Americans who now have “voter’s remorse” (Congressional approval numbers are abysmal) should hope that the much ballyhooed “100 Hours” have expired.

The folks at The Politico.com have a story with the most obvious headline I’ve read in a while…..

Pelosi Falls Short on Election Promises  (Duh.. anyone with a brain knew she would)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is discovering the cold truth about governing with a slim majority: It’s much easier to promise behavioral change for Congress than to deliver it.

That isn’t entirely true.  The House is designed for, as a friend of mine describes, “mob rule.”  So it is a bit disingenuous to make this statement if you are just talking about the House of Representatives.   Passing final legislation, yes, is harder than promising it.  But the truth is being in the Majority Is Being King (even with one vote) in the US House.

But Nancy isn’t even living up to her most highlighted promise: to be “the most ethical Congress in history.”  *coughs*

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a congressional watchdog organization, said [US Rep. William] Jefferson’s reelection put the new speaker in a bind.

“Pelosi had to put him somewhere,” said Sloan, who has also worked as minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee for then-ranking member John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.). “But I am troubled by the fact … that (Jefferson) is the kind of guy who could not pass a security clearance test and yet now he has access to top-secret government info.”

Some Democratic lawmakers privately warn that Pelosi could blow a rare opportunity to change voters’ perception of the party and Congress if she reverts to old Republican ways.

In a recent newspaper commentary, former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana expressed concern “that the new Democratic majority in the House, which certainly understands the sting of unfair treatment, has on occasion yielded to the temptation of its newfound power to shut down Republican participation.”

Ah, the 110th Imperial Congress (with the Speaker’s craving of a Luxury 757 and all) continues the “people’s work.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

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  2. ‘However, a purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said Cheney was the target of the attack. ”We knew that Dick Cheney would be staying inside the base,” Ahmadi told AP telephone from an undisclosed location. ”The attacker was trying to reach Cheney.”
    Afghanistan — A homicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20. Cheney was unhurt in the attack, which was claimed by the Taliban and was the closest that militants have come to a top U.S. official visiting Afghanistan. At least one U.S. soldier, an American contractor and a South Korean solder were among the dead, NATO said.

    Hey Pelosi and Reid. You two are now in charge of the congress and both want powers of the President. What the hell are you going to do about this? They tried to kill the American Vice-President, second in line. Huh? I’m waiting. Cowards, the both of you.
    Are you going to just pass on this?

  3. Also, fans of self-righteous left-wing hypocrisy gotta live Al Gore’s $30,000 utility bill.

    This after Al Gore preached at the Oscars that fighting Manbearpig was “a moral issue,” making this even better than Ted Haggard being caught with a man-ho. Of course, Ted Haggard was also keen to preach about the threat of Manbearpig.

    And people wonder why we don’t take Global Whining seriously.

  4. Bruce, the House Democrats’ “New Order of Doing Really Cool Things”, the so called 100 Hours, isn’t over yet. NancyP says only 42 hrs, 25 min have elapsed since America took back the House.

    I was thinking, aren’t the Democrats suppose to be doing 5 day work weeks from Day #1? If that’s the case and they met the average GOP-era 5.75 (let’s say 6) hours/day… that would have meant the 100 hours was done on Tuesday, January 30th… a month ago.

    Oh wait, there were the NCAA Finals. OK, Monday, February 5th then.

    Oh wait, they didn’t get it done then either? Ok let’s give another two weeks. Monday, February 19th then.

    Oh wait, they can’t do it then… it’s the 1st Annual Two Week Long Presidents Holiday Vacation. OK, well maybe in March then… a few months overdue. Hey, it takes a lot of work to even engage in meaningless gestures like non-binding resolutions and such.

  6. If Ted Kennedy doesn’t think ManBearPig is a big enough threat to let some windmills be built in the Atlantic, and if Al Gore can burn 20x the energy of an average American… then why should we peasants believe them when they lecture us about using renewable fuels and conserving energy?

  9. It gets even better than that. Politico.com is now reporting that House Republicans are forcing a floor vote on William Jefferson’s (D-LA) appointment to the Homeland Security Committee in order to get House Dhimmicrats on record to support the representative who is the target of a federal bribery investigation.

    In other words, for those of you on the short yellow bus, the Speaker and her colleagues on the left side of the aisle must now explain ON THE RECORD why a Congressman who stored $90,000 worth of bribes in his freezer should be trusted to be on a high-level, top-security-clearance committee.

    This ought to be good.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  10. I’d settle for why Pelosi, who has shrieked like a harpy that anyone who has committed campaign finance fraud should not only resign their leadership post, but should be removed from Congress, is exempt from her own rule.

    In a way, being put into power was the best thing that could have happened to the Dems — from the Republican point of view. People are going to figure out soon that all the Democrats are capable of doing from a governing and ethics standpoint is criticizing Republicans, and that Pelosi, Waxman, Obey, and the rest of their caucus are utterly blind to criminal behavior, sucking up to lobbyists, and wasting money when Dems are doing it.

  11. You know, it’s great and all that the Democrats are being exposed as the corrupt hypocrites they are, but I’d still be happier if the GOP could put out some vision and policy.

    In the end, Democrat voters don’t care about corruption, which is why William Jefferson, John Murtha, and Alan Mollohan won re-election handily. If the GOP want to be back in the majority, they better have more than Democrat scandals to fight with.