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Posted at 12:21pm on Dec. 13, 2007 Pelosi and Reid's very bad press morning

By Soren Dayton

It must feel awful to wake up in the morning to these stories.

AP:

Congressional Democrats prepared Wednesday for major concessions on Iraq war funding, children's health insurance, tax policies, general spending and energy, because they could not overcome vetoes by President Bush.

The setbacks are a stinging disappointment for Democrats, who took control of the House and Senate with narrow majorities this year but never found a formula for coaxing compromises from Bush and his GOP supporters.

CQ ($ub$cription):

In one legislative battle after another this fall, the Democrats who won control of Congress a year ago are surrendering to President Bush and minority Republicans. ...

Perhaps the biggest source of Democratic frustration is the omnibus appropriations package that is being assembled to carry 11 fiscal 2008 spending bills.

It took the Democrats until Wednesday to publicly acknowledge they may have to accept a discretionary spending total close to Bush’s number of $933 billion.

Somehow, I don't feel sorry for them though.

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Posted at 4:11pm on Nov. 1, 2007 You Say "Macaca," I Say "Jimmy The Greek," Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

I Guess They Are Not The Clean and Articulate Kind

By Dan McLaughlin

Joe Biden's arch-nemesis - his own mouth - has struck again, according to a one-day story on Page A7 of the Washington Post:

Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on economic status, not race.

After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said. He went on to discuss the importance of parental involvement in reading to children and how "half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom."

Read On...

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Posted at 11:56am on Oct. 31, 2007 A Comedy of Horrors

Rep. Adam Putnam's Scary Halloween Speech

By Bluey

After months of adjusting to life in the minority, congressional Republicans have begun to show some life. They've thwarted the Democratic majority on one issue after another throughout the summer and early fall, and in recent weeks, the GOP appears emboldened by recent debates over children's health care and intelligence gathering and a showdown over federal spending.

Even President Bush seems to be engaged unlike ever before -- appearing yesterday at the White House with House GOP leaders to lecture Congress for its failures. It's quite evident that spirits are brighter on Capitol Hill these days for Republicans, and there's no better example of that than Rep. Adam Putnam's speech to the caucus today.

The speech is getting so much buzz that I've decided to reprint it in its entirety on the jump.

Continued below...

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Posted at 8:32pm on Oct. 29, 2007 CNN's Jack Cafferty on Nancy's Congress and Steny's shortened work week

It sounds like something any of us might have written.

By Mark Kilmer

CNN's Jack Cafferty is something of a complainer. For instance, he went on CNN's The Situation Room to talk about the Democrat Congress. It deals ostensibly with Steny's new "five day workweek," but he calls them for some of their other, more galling failures as well.

Someone from the NRCC told me that "[i]t’s almost as if CNN let us edit Jack’s teleprompter." It does. Jack Cafferty sounds like someone from the right discussing the accomplishments of Nancy's Congress. (We've done it countless times her, as well, both in diaries and on the front page.)

Well, the NRCC posted clip of Cafferty to YouTube. It is very amusing, to say the least.

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