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Anger Mismanagement Congress discovers there's not much gain in Bush hatred.
OpinionJournal ^ | July 6, 2007 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Posted on 07/06/2007 5:10:57 AM PDT by ricks_place

Edited on 07/06/2007 5:25:00 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]

School is out, report cards are in. How fares the new Democratic Congress? Even with grade inflation, it's struggling to hit a gentleman's C.

The big question when Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House was whether her party was up to the task of governing. Democrats wisely turned last year's election into a referendum on Republican competence. It was a shrewd strategy, though left unanswered was how they would use their new power. Could Ms. Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid keep the party's angry liberal wing in check? Did Democrats have a big agenda around which they could rally?


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KEYWORDS: 110th; angrydems; congress
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Bankrupt Democrats

1 posted on 07/06/2007 5:11:00 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: ricks_place
Most of the new incumbents ran, not on ideas, but on being "against President Bush."

It should be no surprise that they've done nothing to date.

2 posted on 07/06/2007 5:16:38 AM PDT by Lou L
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To: ricks_place

I can see why we have the problems we do, if 25% is a “C” in school.


3 posted on 07/06/2007 5:20:05 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: ricks_place

Hey!!! Don’t make fun of Nancy Pelosi. You must have respect for Her Speakership. She’s got a government plane and you don’t.


4 posted on 07/06/2007 5:20:55 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

She’s the most powerful woman in the world! H! sitdown.


5 posted on 07/06/2007 5:24:52 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: ricks_place

Pretty simple.

Socialism is wrong.

America’s great experiment, constitutional representative republic, is right.


6 posted on 07/06/2007 5:27:11 AM PDT by petro45acp (NO good endeavor survives an excess of "adult supervision" (read bureaucracy)!)
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To: ricks_place

F--

(on their best day)

7 posted on 07/06/2007 5:28:51 AM PDT by xcamel ("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
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To: ricks_place

Do Nothing Nancy gets a gentleman C?? She must be doing the professor.

Pray for W and Our Troops


8 posted on 07/06/2007 5:33:00 AM PDT by bray (Member of the FR President Bush underground)
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To: ricks_place
By one count, the new Democratic Congress has held over 600 oversight hearings since assuming power. Given the Senate has only been in session 100 days (the House, 92 days), that works out to six hearings per day, or one every 1.5 hours. The bashing covers everything from wiretapping to President Bush's global warming science.

Nothing irrational about these folks.

9 posted on 07/06/2007 5:33:59 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: petro45acp
Socialism is wrong.

actually, that is incorrect. socialism is *great* if you are a member of the nomenklatura - you get to feel superior to the sheeple and get to tell them what to do, you don't really have to obey the law (thats for sheeple only), and you get first crack at whatever goods are available, but best of all, someone else always pays!

its only wrong for the rest of us proles...

10 posted on 07/06/2007 5:36:16 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: ricks_place

I predicted that Pelosi would not last. Problem with that failed prediction was that I have half a brain.


11 posted on 07/06/2007 5:37:20 AM PDT by elli1
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To: ricks_place

General Pelosi’s failures so far are very satisfying.


12 posted on 07/06/2007 5:39:38 AM PDT by Badeye ("In 2 weeks, I join the list of UNEMPLOYED". ...Goldi-Lox (karma comes around))
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To: ricks_place
That Photo always disturbs me

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

13 posted on 07/06/2007 5:43:30 AM PDT by expatguy (Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: bray

.....She must be doing the professor....

Are you kidding? The slut has been screwed over by every left wing interest group in under the Rat umbrella.


14 posted on 07/06/2007 5:46:38 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: ricks_place

This picture says it all. One can see the smug vacuity of expression. Here is a woman without a fashion clue on normal days, kowtowing to Syrian moslems
—and who doesn’t seem to realize that it is waaaayyy beneath the Speaker of the House of the US.

vaudine


15 posted on 07/06/2007 5:52:45 AM PDT by vaudine (RO)
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...socialism is *great* if you are a member of the nomenklatura...

The ultimate motivation of all leftists.

16 posted on 07/06/2007 5:53:48 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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the rest of us proles

A great point. Americans need to be reminded that the "progressives" picture human beings as mere proles, deserving of death in the womb. Their brave new world would be populated with gorebots, proles and clones.

17 posted on 07/06/2007 6:16:46 AM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53).)
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To: ricks_place

“Anger Mismanagement Congress discovers there’s not much gain in Bush hatred.”

No, that is not it... America has been reminded as to why they threw out the dims in the first place. A little pain is sometimes needed to remind one of past injuries and to be more careful.

LLS


18 posted on 07/06/2007 6:18:28 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: expatguy

after reading the blog i’m more disturbed about what’s happening at the Red Mosque - things in Pakistan starting to get pretty ugly...


19 posted on 07/06/2007 6:35:23 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: ricks_place

A gentleman’s C? They are in the teens in terms of approval ratings-where I come from that would get you a big fat red F.


20 posted on 07/06/2007 7:02:26 AM PDT by nyconse
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