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Democrats Have Launched Over 300 Investigations Since Taking Control

Spending more time “settling scores” than legislating change

Back on October of 2006, just before the November elections, David Ignatius at the Washington Post asked:

If they win the House of Representatives, will the Democrats embark on a two-year binge of investigations and score-settling? Or will they get serious about solving the country’s problems?

To which I answered:

You can put your money on “investigations and score settling” because the Democrats don’t have any actual plans.

I just wanted to point out that I was right:

“They’ve launched over 300 investigations, had over 350 requests for documents and interviews and they have had over 600 oversight hearings in just about 100 days,” Stanzel said.

Remember Nancy Pelosi’s 100 Hour Plan? Well, the only thing this Democratic-lead Congress has passed or achieved since taking control of Congress nearly 8 months ago is to raise the minimum wage.

The Dems haven’t done a single other thing that they said they would do in their election promises. Instead, as I predicted, we’re stuck with “investigations and score settling”.

Is it any wonder that they are even less popular than the President?

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Friday, July 6th, 2007 | Trackback |

3 Responses to “Democrats Have Launched Over 300 Investigations Since Taking Control”

Paris Hilton’s Revenge: Speaking of investigations, when the city prosecutor went after Hilton, people started coming forward with all the skeletons in his closet. Demonstrating his own lack of judgement and hypocrisy, the mayor piled on. Now, all his dirty little secrets are being exposed. Both may be forced out of office. The media has never reported any of this crap before until they couldn’t keep the lid on. I wonder if the judge is next to feel the curse of Paris? bwahhhhhh!

Left by kma on July 6th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

The description of the practice is ‘checks and balances’.

Your portrayal of Congressional approval couldn’t be more off. Democrats in Congress outpoll GOP Congressman and the recent drop in Congressional polling numbers is from Democratic dissatisfaction with the moderation of the Dem leadership.

Lastly: don’t you suppose the reason that ‘Congress doesn’t get anything done’ is that Senate Republicans are obstructing passage of the bills? Feel free to argue that this is a good thing but to claim that it’s the result of Democrats hanging out at the beach rather than a concerted GOP strategy is pure dishonesty.

Left by Preston on July 6th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

Your argument would carry more water if the subpoenas didn’t keep digging up more outrageous behavior from this Administration. The latest revelations from former Surgeon General Richard Carmona that public health issues were ignored for political reasons is simply the latest straw of moral bankruptcy from this Administration. (The requirement that he mention George Bush’s name 3 times on every page in every speech he gave is almost too pathetic to be outraged over)

Well, I suppose the mafia also felt affronted when they were the targets of repeated investigations from the FBI.

Left by Preston on July 12th, 2007 at 7:26 am

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