i’M SCARED OF THE BIG BAD OLE dEMOCRATS!
Confident Democrats Lay Out Agenda
Party Plans Probes Of Administration If It Wins the House
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Democratic leaders, increasingly confident they will seize control of the House in November, are laying plans for a legislative blitz during their first week in power that would raise the minimum wage, roll back parts of the Republican prescription drug law, implement homeland security measures and reinstate lapsed budget deficit controls.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in an interview last week that a Democratic House would launch a series of investigations of the Bush administration, beginning with the White House’s first-term energy task force and probably including the use of intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Pelosi denied Republican allegations that a Democratic House would move quickly to impeach President Bush. But, she said of the planned investigations, “You never know where it leads to.”
In recent days, Democratic confidence has been buoyed by a series of polls indicating that not only is Bush growing increasingly unpopular, so are Republicans in Congress. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday found that 33 percent of the public approves of Bush’s job performance, the lowest rating of his presidency. And only 25 percent approves of the job Congress is doing, a figure comparable to congressional approval ratings before the 1994 elections that swept Republicans to power.
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May 7th, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Sounds good to me! There’s 6 years of really bad policies that need to be undone. The best part is that if the dems take back the house and impeach both Bush and Cheney, a democratic house speaker would be next in line for prez.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
“a democratic house speaker would be next in line for prez…”
Um, yeah. And the GOP Senate will forget to take that into consideration when they schedule the trial…
All fantasy aside, the cool thing about the Dem Agenda is how much it’s not different than the GOP one. Change but not repeal the drug law, implement homeland security measures… the only good thing would be budgetary controls, but these are Democrats, so they’ll act like the GOP anyway (make nice noises and then spend, spend, spend). Oh, and raise the minimum wage. There’s a good idea, hehehe.
As Howard Dean said this week (and he would know, right?) “I was recently asked about the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties…When it comes right down to it, the essential difference is that the Democrats fundamentally believe it is important to make sure that American Jews feel comfortable being American Jews.”"
For the 98% of us who are not Jews, the essential differences between the parties disappear…
May 8th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Ok L.T. I almost mess up my keyboard, with the water out of nose routine.
Keep dreaming pal.
May 8th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Hey, I know that no big party politician is going to do anything I want them to. But I’ll take slightly less bad over the shitstorm we’ve got now any day.