Another Broken Democratic Campaign Promise
Drudge has the goods on the Democrats breaking one of their main campaign promises here. Here’s what he’s reporting:
Democrats ran to expand the work week in the House to 5 days.But guess how long that lasted?
Not even one week!
“Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week” front-paged the WASHINGTON POST in December.
Majority leader Steny Hoyer said members of the House will be expected in the Capitol for votes each week by 6:30 p.m. Monday and will finish their business about 2 p.m. Friday.
Explained the POST: “Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.”
But on the morning after the night before, on the first full week of the new congress, Hoyer has pulled back from his vow!
A Hoyer press release obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT boldly declares: “Monday, January 8, 2007: The House is not in session.”
Hill sources claim The House is taking Monday ‘off’ this week, because of the championship football game between Ohio State and the University of Florida.
And, of course, the following Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
100 hours…starting…soon
Does anyone take Democratic campaign promises seriously? Let’s not forget how quickly Bill Clinton abandoned his pledge for “middle class tax cuts” in 1993. In fact, here’s something I found on the subject:
*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT “CENTRAL”
“I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we’re going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.”
ABC News, Primary Debate, Manchester, 1/19/92
*MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT NOT “CENTRAL”
“But to say that this middle class tax cut,…is the center of anybody’s economic package, is wrong.”
ABC News, Democratic Candidate’s Debate, Dallas, 5/5/92
“I would emphasize to you that the press and my opponents always made more of the middle-class tax cut than I did.”
ABC “Good Morning America”, 6/6/92
That’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of broken Democratic promises. Remember the myth circulated by Pelosi about “running the most ethical Congress” in history? Here’s what we know about that broken promise:
- John Conyers has admitted to several ethics violations but Speaker Pelosi stated unequivocally that he’d still chair the House Judicial Committee.
- John Murtha is on CREW’s list of Most Unethical Representatives but he’s still chairing the influential Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. It’s pretty noteworthy that Murtha makes CREW’s list because the biggest contributors to their organization are George Soros & Peter Lewis, two of the biggest radical lefties known to man.
- Alan Mollohan is being investigated by the FBI but he chairs a subcommittee that handles the FBI’s appropriations.
Does that sound like the right start to being the “most ethical Congress in history”? Forgive me if I don’t believe Democratic campaign promises that don’t increase taxes or ruin morale within the military.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
January 8th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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January 8th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
To recognize “ethical” one would have to be familiar with the definition and be able to apply the term equally amoungst behaviors.
Kinda leaves the ranking member from the great state of Californicate out of it, yes? No?