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The Democrats promised to restore bipartisanship and openness, tighten ethics rules for lawmakers, and reign in pork barrel spending in their "first 100 hours" pledge made after taking control of Congress in November 2006. They haven't kept their promises. In fact, they have actually moved in the opposite direction on several of their pledges. Is this what voters really wanted last November? I doubt it. I would venture that the American electorate was fed up with Republicans controlling Congress too long, and tiring of an Iraq war seemingly spiraling towards disaster. The Democrats have sought to exclude Republicans from decision-making...

Since the 100 hour promise has for some reason fallen by the wayside (meaning scant media attention), I thought I'd post an update. According to her website, the dems have used a touch UNDER 28 hours of their "first 100 hours in power" on legislative issues they promised would get done. Now, to most rational people, the first 100 hours means 100/8 = 12.5 workdays to get these promised things accomplished, yet they're far from that. It's important to understand that when Pelosi PROMISED massive legislative undertakings in the FIRST 100 hours, she neglected to mention that the time would...

As The Stiletto was walking down E Capitol Street one day Nancy Pelosi looked at her and said her 100 Hours Watch had stopped cold dead And The Stiletto said Does anybody really know what time it is Does anybody really care If so The Stiletto can’t imagine why She’s a single woman, like Condolezza Rice NOTE: Original source includes links that add context (and extra snarkiness) to these parody lyrics.

The clock is ticking for House Democrats, but it's hard to tell what time it is. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., was touting a plan to push six bills through a Democratic House in 100 hours or less as early as June of last year. She's reached the halfway point — in fewer than 20 hours, according to her count. But just as the official clock for a basketball or football game stops for time-outs and commercial breaks, Democrats aren't counting the minutes spent on business unrelated to those six designated bills. So while the House...

The Stiletto was reading an article in The Washington Post about The House passing a bill that would ease President Bush's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research by a vote of 253 to 174 - short of the two-thirds majority needed to override an expected presidential veto. She then decided to check out which Republicans voted with the Dems in favor of H.R. 3 and vice versa. The Post broke the vote down by party affiliation, state, region, “boomer status,” gender and – get this – astrological sign. Though The Stiletto can’t quite figure out how this information could...

100 Hours: Honest Leadership and Open Government John Samples, director of Cato's Center for Representative Government and author of The Fallacy Of Campaign Finance Reform: The ethics part of this agenda evokes a limited sense of déjà vu. On their first day in power in 1995, the House Republicans cut House staff, changed budgeting rules, enacted term limits for their leadership, banned proxy voting in committee, opened committee hearings to the public, required a three-fifths vote to increase taxes, started a comprehensive audit of the House, and applied anti-discrimination and workplace safety rules to Congress itself. Later they passed...

I'm ready for the big payoff from this election. I think it's time to just push the Dems to deliver everything they promised PLUS some. 1) I want them to fully fund stem cell research, fetal, adult, geriatric, I just don't care where the stem cells come from, I want the miracles they promised to be delivered, and it better be quick. 2) I want every damn illegal immigrant to become naturalized citizens. I want to see them taking my order at McDonald's so my kid can be the rocket scientist I know he can be. 3) I want our...