I'm shocked and surprised I tell ya, Shocked and Surprised.

I read their agenda this morning.

1st 100 hours:  (not inclusive)

1.  Fiddle with some rules that affect nothing in particular.

2.  Fiddle with ethics committee methods and makeup, which will affect no one in particular.

3.  Raise the minimum wage which will affect no one in particular - but it is a great billboard ploy.  Well some people will lose their jobs over it.

4.  Um.... Oh, yeah, raise the taxes on Oil Companies to increase dependence on foreign oil.

5.  Investigate, investigate, investigate...um... Iraq contractors, etc.

6.  Oh yeah, implement 9/11 Commission Report findings.  Of course, we don't know what the Hell that means, except it leaves the impression that the mean Republicans don't care enough about security to already have implemented most of these recommendations and the one's left over are either a) silly or b) incredibly costly and useless.  (useless in this context means already covered somewhere else).

So, what do we have here that leaves the the mean nasty old Republicans out?

1.  Raise taxes on small business through a minimum wage increase for people who will end up getting all that additional tax money back for themselves through the 'earned income tax credits'.  Thus increasing the national debt by putting some people out of business and reducing revenues to the government.

2.  Raise taxes on Big Oil (wait until they get to Big Pharmacy and WalMart).

3.  Create a lot of hoopla over the 9/11 Commission Report stuff that will never be implemented by any Congress because if it could have been it would have been.  (watch this one folks, its funny.)

4.  Spend a ton of money; disrupt the WOT by meddling in the day to day activities of people who actually work rather than pontificate; and get nothing done at all in the end because the contractor issues are already being handled by other enforcement and auditing mechanisms; all this by holding endless hearings to bore even CSPAN to death.

If the face of Democrat Committee Chairmen on TV more often than cell phone ads doesn't drive the average American batty before 2008, I'm sure the face of Osama (er...Obama) will.

ACA

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Acaiguana says:  "Which city is next?"

Gotta Ask Warner, is Nancy Pelosi dead?  Photo looks that way.

If so why isn't it being reported?

ACA

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Acaiguana says:  "Which city is next?"

The PELOSI  PLOOZA begins!

OK Dims. Pass a lot of stuff. Crow about it. How are you going to get it through the Senate though?

Doesn’t it seem odd that the MSM lately is so uncurious about the condition of Senator Tim Johnson?

Talk about violation of free speech, just spotted this article at Newsmax. Their only answer to conservative radio and blogs, couldn't beat them so shut them down.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

Hello all – this is my first of what I’m sure will be many posts to the Newsbusters blog.  I couldn’t imagine a better topic to jump into the fray on than this one.

This abandonment of yet another campaign promise is only a reality to those people of this country who choose to take the main stream media’s word (or omission thereof) and opinion as fact without doing independent research or exercising common sense on the most simplistic level.

Perhaps I was the only one to see it, but during an interview with Nancie Pelosi on election night, she stated that the public shouldn’t expect too much change with regard to the war in Iraq because their party does not control the White House.  This statement was made on election night, after having won a majority running on a platform of change.  She reversed her entire platform only an hour or two after winning the majority.  I don’t recall what network aired the clip (which was live by the way), but I’m certain that it was never aired again, and in all likelihood the tape was burned.

This type of thing is certainly not new, and certainly not surprising.  For me, the surprising part is that almost half the country conveniently ignores it, and continues to vote for the candidates who are clearly, blatantly, lying to obtain votes.  I guess those citizens will simply vote for whomever the main stream media tells them to.

And one final thought – the only thing the Democratic party is “torn” about is whether or not to launch impeachment proceedings against the President.

This is very, very good.....

1) The GOP survivors in Congress can see and feel what it is that the party relinquished when it forgot its root principles and became just another Democrat in GOP clothing.....

2) The American public can see and learn what it will be like under a Democratic Congress (especially the Middle Class) without the water being muddied by who is responsible for what in this new Congress....

3) Partisanship is alive and well in DC and will continue to be and this is a good thing.....it sets the stage for the next great debate and will provide the GOP contenders for the WH in '08 with ample fuel to stoke the fires of the electorate......

We are about to witness the emergence of the radical left at the top of the food chain in DC....like Islamic terrorism, most Americans are clueless about what this really means to them, their families and their pocketbooks......Show & Tell may be the only way to clearly demonstrate the fallacies of this liberal secular religion and to put into clear view the radical socialization of America that they propose to foster on this country......

Nowhere to Run....Nowhere To Hide.....

You wrote: "They do clearly state that the Democrat majority is going against a campaign promise to be less partisan..."

The Post wrote: "But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in
deliberations, as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7
midterm elections..."