A new start; will much change?
Congratulations to Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to take the oath as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Republicans may be whining, but I don't fault Democrats for shutting them out during the first 100 hours when the new party in power hopes to push through top-priority legislation.
Republicans are disingenuous in the extreme, because they rolled over the Democrats when they held majority status.
So what if Dems promised to do better? They have the numbers, won fair and square in the November elections, so they get to exercise the power. If Republicans don't like it, well, they know when the next elections are.
That said, I don't believe for a minute that the Democrats are going to be more ethical or more fair and open or more whatever than the Republicans were. Politicians of both parties are cut from the same cloth. Their operative goals are to gain power, then to keep it.
It's a new day in Washington, and it will bring a focus on some new initiatives. But I'm betting we won't have to look too far below the partisan differences to see that not much is really going to change.
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But I'm betting we won't have to look too far below the partisan differences to see that not much is really going to change.* Doug
You got that right! Except for one thing. If the War is still going on in Iraq in a year. Both parties will have new movement in their face and it won't be pretty.
Posted on January 4, 2007 7:01 PM
What does "new movement in their face" mean? A lack of botox?
Posted on January 4, 2007 9:12 PM
What does "new movement in their face" mean? A lack of botox?*S
Means people in the streets, just like the 60's, lots of free love and dope. Castro beards back in style to hid the botox Kerry remake. Nixon and Mayor Daley Ghosts haunting the Democrat war surge party at midnight religious services. Doug on the front lines doing stories in Iraq about mobs of camels and goats assaulting the Grave site of Saddam. Let the good times roll? Can I enlisted you in the movement as a hotdog vender at the peace rallies marches? Or maybe there might be another party ballot that says none of the above?
Posted on January 5, 2007 11:55 AM