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Red Robin

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Democrats' first 100 days deemed failure by GOP
By Christina Bellantoni
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 13, 2007


House Republicans today will issue a scathing report grading the Democrats' first 100 days in control of Congress, with a reminder to the American people that none of the new majority's signature issues has become law.
"The substance of the Democrats' first 100 days is, at best, thin, and it particularly suffers in comparison to the Contract with America put forth by Republicans after they won the majority in 1995," says a copy obtained by The Washington Times.
The 19-page document, called "Democrats: 0 for 6 in '07, Failing to Produce Results in the 110th Congress," outlines the fate of each measure on the Democratic agenda.
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, accused Democrats of being "tone deaf" to the needs of the American middle class.
"If Democrats took this nation in any new direction during their first 100 days, it was backwards," he said.
"Republicans have demonstrated a commitment to hold Democrats accountable for both their failures and their broken promises, while offering substantive solutions to lead this country forward."
Democrats defend their record by saying they accomplished more in three months than Republicans achieved in all of 2006, especially since they passed a budget and an emergency supplemental spending bill.
"As we reach out on this 100th day, we're well on the way to delivering a government that's as good and honest as the people that it serves," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said yesterday.
The Republican brochure does not mention that many of the key elements of Contract with America, such as a balanced-budget amendment, passed in the House's first 100 days but died in the Senate.
The "Six for '06" agenda sailed out of the House in less than 50 hours. Democrats took credit for passing bills to raise the minimum wage, increase federal funding for stem-cell research, implement all of the recommendations of the September 11 commission, cut the interest rate on student loans, make changes to the Medicare prescription-drug plan and roll back oil subsidies. Three of these measures have passed the Senate and none has made it through the compromise process between the two chambers.
Some members are frustrated that Americans are waiting for an increase in the minimum wage, though Democratic leaders have declared victory for giving workers a raise.
The wage increase from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour -- the first in a decade -- "will put real money into the pockets of hardworking individuals and families," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "A minimum-wage increase was long overdue."
 

Sandhusker

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I think they're all a bunch of flippin chumps - Democrat and Republican alike. They love to revel in each other's failures, without realizing that any failure in Washington is a failure to EVERYBODY in this country. They're so damn afraid that if something good comes out of Washington, the other guys might get some credit - so the good things are few and far in between. They don't seem to understand that they are working for the people and not the &%$#%@ party. I"m sick of them all.
 

jigs

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how can you be a Husker, and still have such a good idea of the problems of Washington..... must be one of those oximoron things I guess. we need to toss the whole lot of them out, kill all the lobbyists, and start from scratch with a group that knows we will hang them for wasting our money.
 

Liberty Belle

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Now that you brought it up - where is dear old disagreeable? I wass missing from this board through all of the SD legislative session and I just had an awful thought - do you suppose ol' dis is also a legislator down there in Oklahoma? :???: Is the Oklahoma legislature in session now? :shock:

Or did we just ask too many questions he couldn't, or wouldn't, answer? :twisted:
 

floyd

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Sandhusker, They all want to mold the country into their version of nirvana. I think that generally means doing good for the money that put them there.
Follow the money.
 

Cal

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They love to revel in each other's failures, without realizing that any failure in Washington is a failure to EVERYBODY in this country.
I don't know about that. Maybe the more pork laiden legislation that gets killed....the better. There is actually very little of the Dems agenda, and certainly not all of the Reps, that I want to get accomplished. Also, the Dems and a select bunch of candy-ass Republicans that want to cut-and-run from Iraq and leave the whole Middle East up for grabs to the worst of the souless inhumans alive are totally despicable.
 

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