The "Successful" New Congress

Ronald Cass has a piece at Real Clear Politics today about how "successful" the new Democrat Congress has been so far.

Cass nails the Democrats on several aspects:

--The failure to get only one of their "6 for '06" agenda into law. That was a staggered increase in the minimum wage. President Bush agreed to sign that legislation at his first meeting with the new Democrat leadership, but the Democrats still had to pack it in with the defense spending bill. Don't forget, the "first 100 hours" became the "first 100 legislative" hours.

--Democrats railed against the "culture of corruption" during the election. When it came time for leadership elections, Madam Pelosi supported John Murtha as House Majority Leader. Murtha has a shaky ethical past. Neither has anything been done about Rep. William Jefferson, the man made famous by the $90,000 in cold, hard, cash found in his freezer in an FBI raid of his home.

--Serious delays--109 days-- in getting funding to our troops in war zones because Democrats had to please their anti-war constituency but including withdrawal deadlines in the bill. Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck brought up a conversation he had with his nephew in Iraq about how he and a couple of guys in his unit were wearing older helmets "that looked like they were out of WW2" because they couldn't get replacements. The nephew also asked Glenn to send food, not snacks, but food, because the military have had to start rationing in the past few weeks. Maybe it's only an isolated incident, but it's still a frightening thought.

The Democrats didn't win on anything substantial except on the perceived negatives the public had about Republicans. But for a few thousand votes in either Montana or Virginia, the Senate would still be in Republican hands. Several house seats were decided by very narrow margins, and most of the Democrat winners were more conservative--at least that is how they portrayed themselves--than their party's mainstream.

When you hear Democrats talking about their success like this in the future, remember---for all of their "successes", Congress still has a lower approval rating than President Bush.

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