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Posted on 11/08/2007 9:53:41 PM PST by smoothsailing
A Failure to Lead
The Democratic Congress is more interested in acting out than in taking positive action.
BY KARL ROVE
Friday, November 9, 2007
This week is the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid probably aren't in a celebrating mood. The goodwill they enjoyed after their victory is gone. Their bright campaign promises are unfulfilled. Democratic leadership is in disarray. And Congress's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in history.
The problems the Democrats are now experiencing begin with the federal budget. Or rather, the lack of one. In 2006, Democrats criticized Congress for dragging its feet on the budget and pledged that they would do better. Instead, they did worse. The new fiscal year started Oct. 1--five weeks ago--but Democrats have yet to send the president a single annual appropriations bill. It's been at least 20 years since Congress has gone this late in passing any appropriation bills, an indication of the mess the Pelosi-Reid Congress is now in.
Even worse, the Democrats have made clear all their talk about "fiscal discipline" is just that--talk. They're proposing to spend $205 billion more than the president has proposed over the next five years. And the opening wedge of this binge is $22 billion more in spending proposed for the coming year. Only in Washington could someone in public life be so clueless to say, as Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi have, that $22 billion is a "relatively small" difference.
Let's also be clear about what it means to roll back the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, as the Democrats want to do....
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
I think he says all that needs saying very well.
Lotta twisted knickers in Foggy Bottom tonight...
delicious...hoping this will be a regular column.
The Democratic victory in 2006 was narrow. They won the House by 85,961 votes out of over 80 million cast and the Senate by a mere 3,562 out of over 62 million cast.
IOW, if 44,762 "voters" would have voted differently, the RATS would not have had a victory.
Yippee!! I’ve been waiting for this moment.... I trust that Karl Rove is rested, refreshed, and ready to kick these vicious Demagogues all over the lot. I trust that this superb op-ed is not just a one-off and that Rove is ready to help lead the Republican resurgence! Just don’t let any of the RINOs and appeasers and soft-on-illegals crowd have any role now, Mr. Rove. Thank you!
Do Nothing Nancy is going down as the worst in Histoir.
Just proving that women can’t lead
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Oo-oo-oo-oo-h! That’s gonna leave a mark.
Women can lead..... Just not the ones with mush in their heads...!
I think that we should all keep in mind the one “dissed” democrat senator. I wonder if he isn’t just waiting for a close voting opportunity to say adios to the dems. I just looked at the senate website- there are 49 R’s, 49D’s, one I (Sanders VT) and one ID (Lieberman). So I guess Sanders really doesn’t count for the dems, and Joe does since he says he caucuses there. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Joe changed over and came out of the darkness.
He is indeed the “boy wonder”. Okay Karl, let’s go kick some a**.
The list of Congress’s failures grows each month. No energy bill. No action on health care. No action on the mortgage crisis. No immigration reform. No progress on renewing No Child Left Behind. Precious little action on judges and not enough on reducing trade barriers. Congress has not done its work. And these failures will have consequences.
NO SHOES NO SHIRT NO SERVICE NO NUTHIN’
Thatcher was a leader.
Women can lead, but they are rare.
I suspect Jeane Kirkpatrick could lead as well if given the chance.
I also believe that Jeanne could have lead, she was never given the chance. Sadly, we lost her last December at the age of 80.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Good article. Thanks for posting.
How about an AMT fix Pelosi..instead of moonbat bills?
Yeh. And Jimmy Carter proved that men can't lead, either.
Guess the Dem’s “Dream Act” didn’t bother him...
Rove spanks Nasty Nancy a good one.
It’s more fun to be on offense than defense, isn’t it Karl?
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