Nancy Pelosi's "100 Hours" meet reality...
...results not so pretty.
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Ah, the "100 Hours." That self-declared honeymoon of the new House majority in which everything went their way--even the progress of time. Those were the days, I mean hours, in which everything was right with the world. The disadvantaged were assisted and the bloated plutocrats punished by the righteous powers of the federal government. But it seems that even this halcyon time outside time had to come to an end. Reality crashed the party today in the form of the razor-thin democrat majority in the senate, which could not muster the votes necessary to pass the house bill without attaching related tax cuts to moderate the burden of this wage increase on small business owners. Speaker Pelosi had urged such tax breaks not abominate her utopian bill, but the senate couldn't get it done. So now it appears that what Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) likes to call "giveaways for the powerful" will be part of this legislation--and the powerful, in this case, will include small businesses that hire disadvantaged workers.
I'm sorry for Speaker Pelosi's disappointment, but it is better to face this reality sooner rather than later, and to understand that a house majority, when combined with so thin a margin in the senate and an executive of the other party, is not a mandate to rule by decree. Her wishes are not automatically the law of the land. So now the party of the "100 Hours" are over, it might behoove her to take a more sober and realistic approach to the legislation she passes, and to the pressure she puts on more moderate senate democrats to perpetuate her agenda.
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the truth that military service, even honorable military service, is meaningless outside of that service.
Were I Pharaoh, I have their names (along with a certain Navy vet) stricken from all written historical records.
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like the Dems failed on the closure vote 54-43, which means they couldn't shut down a Republican filibuster. Three Republicans did break ranks.
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However, with this amendment, the House and Senate version differ and must therefore be reconciled in a conference committee.
It will be interesting to see if this amendment survives or gets yanked by the committee.
I'm betting Nancy isn't going to the mat over this, she got her min. wage increase, so the tax cuts stay in. But who knows, she's pretty full of herself these days, she might just want to pick a fight early.