Gary Gross of Let Freedom Ring pointed out a couple days ago that the Democrats have already begun to break their 2006 campaign promises:
Actually, they've broken two campaign promises with one inaction. Democratic candidates promised more vigorous oversight and they promised to implement the 9/11 Commission's recommendations. I'm guessing that the Democrats are only interested in oversight if it's able to criticize Halliburton or the Patriot Act and the like. It's obvious that they aren't the least bit interested in oversight into truly important matters.* * * * *
Color me shocked and surprised that John Murtha isn't interested in reform. Color me shocked and surprised that Democrats aren't interested in reform either. Frankly, I don't know why the American people believed that Democrats are reform-minded. Nothing in their past suggests that they're interested in reform.
Read Gary's whole post at the link above, including the WaPo story on the broken promises.
NRO's Byron York follows up, noting that none of the SIX "action items" the Democrats ran on is likely to pass quickly, if at all - and exposes the whole "100 hours" promise as a complete sham. There is no such thing as "legislative hours" in the House. Never has been.
I suspect Pelosi pulled the "100 hours" straight out of her anus, recalling the GOP's Contract With America promise to vote on the action agenda within 100 DAYS, and trying to "top" that.
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