Teddy Kennedy has a piece in the WaPo today, trumpeting everything the Democratically controlled Congress has achieved since Nancy Pelosi began her Reign of Terror.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but if this new Congress had been its architect, it might have been. It has been just 66 days since Congress changed hands, and already the results are remarkable. In my 45 years in Congress, I have never seen the Senate turn so rapidly from stalemate toward real progress.
Wow, that’s a pretty bold statement there Senator. What, pray tell have you accomplished during the 66 day Reign of Terror?
Last week, the Senate and the House held hearings on the inexcusable conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Hearings and the threat of legislation by the new Congress have forced the mighty banking industry to admit that credit card fees and interest rates are far too high and to pledge to end some of its worst practices.
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Just last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee provided a forum for U.S. attorneys who were fired for political reasons.
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But Congress is now performing its constitutional role as a check on the executive. The administration is being asked the hard questions and being held accountable for its answers.
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We have also demanded accountability from ourselves by requiring that each member of Congress go on the record as supporting or opposing President Bush’s escalation of our involvement in Iraq’s civil war.
Let’s see…holding hearings, providing forums, threatening, asking hard questions….seems to me Senator Kennedy, all you Democrats are doing is talking a whole lot.
But that’s really to be expected. If the Democrats actually did something about the issues, they wouldn’t have anything to complain about anymore.
MikeM Says: March 12th, 2007 at 6:45 amI hope they keep on holding hearings, providing forums, threatening, and asking hard questions - as long as they don’t start doing anything. When the Dems start trying to do, it’s time to be worried.
Terry Says: March 12th, 2007 at 10:32 amI would certainly like to know exactly what it costs for either the House or the Senate to hold hearings and then require those instigating such hearings to explain why it is they are wasting the public’s money.
Yeah, I know. That hope rest only in MY mind.
The Bitch Girls :: Raising A Glass Tonight Says: March 17th, 2007 at 8:26 pm[…] According to Farrah, it would be perfectly appropriate to raise a glass of beer to Senator Kennedy tonight. He’s “talking a whole lot” about the Democrats and Rome. […]
jmt Says: March 19th, 2007 at 5:49 amSo, let me get this right: the Democrats in Congress and in the Senate have voted on a minimum wage increase that is now stuck in conference, failed to pass a non-binding anti-war resolution, split into various caucuses and held press conferences, held congregational hearings, and threatened the Executive with subpoenas.
Sounds like all they’ve accomplished is to pay back their major contributor, the press, by giving them quotes, events, and settings that can be turned into stories and commentary on the various news programs. Basically, they’ve given the media the raw material they need to broadcast.
Which basically feeds the cycle of Media biased presentation -> Media cherry picked poll questions -> Media presention of biased poll results -> politicians reacting to poll results -> fodder for more Media biased presentations.
Ugh - it’s gonna be a long time until 2008.