Denial
Democrats like to talk a lot about there so-called agenda, and some Democrats, try to trump up an alleged record of accomplishment since their return to the majority.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, is one of those Democrats who seems to think the Democratic Majority is actually doing a good job, according to Politico, Hoyer said, “I don’t think you can really point to a failure that we have had in the House of Representatives in terms of legislative policy we wanted to pass.”
Oh, really? Another Politico story (by the same authors even) notes that “Democrats have had no substantive success in changing policy.” Even their “success” in raising the minimum wage wasn’t exactly what they wanted. They had hope for a clean bill raising the minimum wage, but had to settle for attaching it to a war supplemental bill in order to get it passed. It most likely would have died otherwise.
No matter how you look at it, Democrats haven’t accomplished much this year, and their incompetence and lack of leadership is showing… I don’t know what House Steny Hoyer is talking about, but it isn’t the same one the rest of the country is watching.
26 comments December 12th, 2007
