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To: bentway who wrote (358919)	11/16/2007 2:24:03 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573454

Its the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress. 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...... Failing to pass a budget, proposing a huge spike in federal spending and offering the biggest tax increase in history are not the only hallmarks of this Democratic Congress. ........Beholden to MoveOn.org and Code Pinko and other assorted left-wing kook nut groups..... After promising on the campaign trail to "support our troops," Democrats tried to cut off funding for our military while our soldiers and Marines are under fire from the enemy. ......For 19 Senate Democrats, this was simply a bridge too far.... ......so they voted against their own leadership's proposal...... Democrats also tried to stuff an emergency war-spending bill with billions of dollars of pork for individual members. Now the party's leaders are stalling an emergency supplemental bill with funding for body armor, bullets and mine-resistant vehicles. After pledging a.... ...."Congress that strongly honors our responsibility to protect our people from terrorism," Democrats have refused to make permanent reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the Director of National Intelligence said were needed to close "critical gaps in our intelligence capability." Their presidential candidates fell all over each other in a recent debate to pledge an end to the Terrorist Surveillance Program. The list of Congress's failures grows each month. Democrats had a moment after the 2006 election, but now that moment has passed. .......They've squandered it. They have demonstrated both the inability and unwillingness to govern. Instead, after more than a decade in the congressional minority, they reflexively look for short-term partisan advantage and attempt... ........to appease the party's most strident fringe kooks........ Now that Democrats have the reins of congressional power, their true colors are coming out and the public doesn't like what it sees. 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. A party that wins control by that narrow margin can quickly see its fortunes reversed when it fails to act responsibly..... fails to fulfill its promises, and fails to lead.