{"id":9663,"date":"2007-01-18T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9663.html"},"modified":"2007-01-18T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T21:35:29","slug":"100-hours-dems-legislate-gop-whines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/100-hours-dems-legislate-gop-whines\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Hours — Dems legislate, GOP whines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “100 Hours” agenda is wrapping up today, and as Tom Edsall explained<\/a>, “Something odd happened on Capitol Hill this week. Something that seemed to start out as a publicity stunt — the House Democratic leadership\u2019s 100-hour agenda — actually turned into a…qualified success.” (Try not to sound too surprised, Tom.)<\/p>\n

Pelosi & Co. came started the 100-hour clock with six items on the to-do list. They’ve checked off the first five<\/a> and, right on schedule, will pass the sixth today — the last being a $15 billion package of fees, taxes, and royalties on oil and gas companies. The money, the AP noted<\/a>, will be used to promote renewable fuels.<\/p>\n

It’s worth taking a moment to give the House Dem leadership a pat on the back. Before the 110th started, there were some concerns that the party, out of power for 12 years, would fall into bad habits. Internal squabbling and a lack of discipline would doom their policy agenda. The opposite has happened — Pelosi, Hoyer, and the leadership team have done everything they said they would do, and in the process, they’ve delivered on an agenda with broad public support.<\/p>\n

And then, of course, there’s the minority party<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As Congress considers the final piece of the House Democrat’s six-bill ‘100 hour’ agenda, House GOP Conference Chairman Adam Putnam on Thursday said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, “has squandered a historic opportunity to work with Republicans.”<\/p>\n

“After a series of broken promises, twisted arms, and fishy loopholes, the biggest dog-and-pony show in modern legislative history ends today,” the Florida Republican said in a statement. “It is unfortunate that at the expense of bipartisan due process, Democrats have rammed through the House a watered-down slate of so-called reforms that will never become law in their current form.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s quite a sad spectacle to see just how poorly the GOP is adjusting to life in the minority. The crux of Putnam’s whining<\/strike> concerns are that a) this was a great chance to get Republicans’ input on legislation; b) Dem leaders pressured Dem lawmakers to vote for the Dem agenda; and c) Dems weren’t “bipartisan” enough.<\/p>\n

I’m not one to give congressional Republicans advice, but c’mon, can’t these guys show some pride? Is this really<\/i> the best they’ve got?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “100 Hours” agenda is wrapping up today, and as Tom Edsall explained, “Something odd happened on Capitol Hill this week. Something that seemed to start out as a publicity stunt — the House Democratic leadership\u2019s 100-hour agenda — actually turned into a…qualified success.” (Try not to sound too surprised, Tom.) Pelosi & Co. came […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}