shooting one's self in the foot

oh dear.

Seems that lame (Pelosi) and lamer (Reid) cannot get with the program.
(BTW - did anyone else notice that the Post, in December, could not run a picture of a member of Congress without using that circular ceiling shot. I think that Bill Frist had the crown for weeks. But that is the Post, no sense of decorum.)

Madame Speaker's attempt to stab Steney Hoyer in the back was the first item of business and went down in flames. And she threw her weight behind MURTHA - anyone else see that as quid pro quo for Murtha's Iraq rants in 2006? And how can she ignore Murtha's considerable baggage?

Harry Reid cannot make it back for Gerald Ford's funeral, because he was where?

Nancy Pelosi spends a fortune on a party to congratulate herself on being elected speaker, and we had concerns about the lavish behavior of conservatives?

The bill raising the minimum wage gets pushed through the House (with every Republican in town talking about how it will raise prices and cause unemployment), but did we hear about solving the cause of wage depression in the first place, i.e. Illegal immigration? (Crickets chirping).

And a interesting little tidbit popped up this week in the Post and WSJ, Harry Reid has been busy trying to kill the Ethics bill. Yup, the one that Nancy put forth as a "solution" to the "culture of corruption" in Washington.

Now these are just a few items that I have noted in the past month and a half that lead me to believe that nothing has changed:

1. Nancy has a penchant for personal vendettas, which is fine. However Nancy has vowed to make this the cleanest Congress ever - and her first intended victim was Steney Hoyer with whom she has some long standing (decades apparently) gripe. Now correct me here if I am missing something, but should she not have tried to bump off some problematic Republicans? And can she stop playing "Who's the biggest diva" with Jane Harman? Exercising her muscle through petty politics begins to border on juvenile - and, if she wants to bash some Democrats, when will she tell Barbara Boxer to shut up for two seconds and when will William Jefferson be brought up for his ethics issues?


2. Harry Reid did not want to alter his trip to Macchu Pichu to return for Gerald Ford's funeral. Which is fair. However, Harry - how did you get to Peru? On a commercial flight? Absolutely not. He flew out of Andrews. Who paid for the trip to Peru? Apparently, this was to build relations with some South American leaders. Harry, you are not a diplomat! You are Majority Leader of the Senate. Try staying in Washington and doing some work (and if you were in town working you would be able to attend a former president's funeral). Instead, you are "busy" globe-trotting. Appearances at the beginning of the new Congress matter. And Incan ruins really don't.

3. I'll save the Dems endorsement of illegal immigration for a long series of rants.

I cured myself of being a Democrat in 2004. And I am given regular doses of reality that remind me that I made the right decision. For some reason, the party just cannot seem to find leaders that are palatable (Kerry, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, H. Clinton) - this would explain the Obama buzz.