Dems Lied About Cleaning Up Congress

If the Democrats lose control of Congress in 2008, a big reason will be that their entire election platform was a sack of lies:

When Democrats took control of Congress four months back, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., bragged it would take her party less than 100 hours to curb wasteful pork spending by requiring members to attach their names to their “earmarks,” exposing such waste to the harsh light of public scrutiny.

She failed to mention this “reform” would remain in effect for little more than 100 days.

Their platform consisted of two main things: ending the culture of corruption that permeates Congress and ending the Iraq war.

As to Pelosi’s claim promise to “drain the swamp”, nothing has changed — in fact thinks look to be more corrupt than ever — and Republicans and Democrats alike are still abusing their office and our tax dollars to enrich themselves and their buddies/campaign contributers.

And all the Democrats have had to do to end the war in Iraq is to vote to defund it. They can’t de-authorize it, which is what they’d like to do (sort of “do-over” from their initial vote to authorize it) . Constitutionally, all they can do to stop it is defund it.

But each time they’ve had the opportunity to do so, they’ve folded like cheap lawn chairs.

The only thing that Dems really intended to change with the 2006 election was the majority/minority status of each party. Other than that, it’s been (dirty) business as usual on the Hill.