Back to the point of not hearing anything from the MSM on the first 100 hours of the Democrat congress, here it is. Well, no it isn’t. AP calls it ‘Six for ’06’, which is the Democrats’ six-bill, 100-hour legislative agenda. Now there is an article, but none of the six legislative actions were listed. Here is what it is, and why it’s not being explained.

1. Remove incentives from and increase taxes on the oil industry. Add dis-incentives (conservation fee) to oil production and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.
2. Raise the federal minimum wage.
3. Implement some 9/11 commission recommendations.
4. Expand embryonic stem cell research.
5. Empower Medicare to ‘negotiate’ prices with the pharm industry.
6. Lower interest rates on student loans.

Today, Democrats stood united to say that we have kept our promise to the American people, said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.

She’s not referring to her promise of being partners, not partisans, with the minority. They were shut out of 100% of the 100 hours as far as input goes. There is this Democrat Clock that worked like this. . .

The Democrats’ clock, which counted only the time spent directly on the six bills, showed that 42 hours and 15 minutes had elapsed when the roll call ended on the last bill, energy legislation that would reimpose billions in fees, royalties and taxes on the oil industry.

What’s missing in the Democrats’ agenda?

I haven’t been writing much lately.  Mainly because the Democrats still have nothing to say and I always knew what ‘cut and run’ was, and is.  Looks as though we’re in for a 2 year cruise of treading water in the manner that Clinton did for eight years.

Haven’t heard anything in the media about ‘the first 100 hours’ of the new Democrat majority congress.  100 hours being long gone now, working 20 hrs/wk it would take them 5 weeks to get to their first 100 hours.  So there’s still plenty of time.

What’s being ignored?

The obvious ones are winning the war-on-terror, economic policies like making the tax cut permanent, fixing Social Security, educational policies like allowing school choice via the school voucher program (No child left behind), real tort reform, earmark removal just to name a few.   The party has nothing to say about the issues they just ran on.  Oh that’s right, it was ‘Bush sucks.’

Who’s fighting a war, and who isn’t?  The ’06 campaign was all about the difference between winning in Iraq and leaving before winning.  The Right was chastised for calling the Left’s position in Iraq as cut and run.  It was unfair because that is not what it was, they said.  Matter of fact, even through the election we still didn’t know what their position was.  But now we know.  Its cut and run.

“Our troops and the American people have already sacrificed a great deal for the future of Iraq,” the letter from Reid and Pelosi said.

 “After nearly four years of combat, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to a close.”

A more clear example cannot be made, that the democrat party does not get in the slightest that the Iraq war is but a front in the war on terror, than their own words.

Be on the lookout for a MSM headline, ‘They do want to cut and run.’  Just don’t hold your breath.