“100 Hours” = Two Weeks

by Patrick Ruffini :: January 4th, 2007 11:04 am

The Influence Peddler has the details of the Democrat “100 Hours” agenda. Minor detail: it’s not 100 hours, but more like two weeks, with the last agenda item scheduled for consideration on January 18th.

Nancy Pelosi takes the Speaker’s gavel today at noon.

Here’s the Contract with America for handy side-by-side reference. Republicans passed eight substantive measures on the first day of their majority, and as someone who was up watching it late that night on C-SPAN, the first day didn’t mean “next week.”

Pelosi’s Congress is in with a whimper. It’s not hard to see why the Sheehanites are upset.

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog says:
Nancy Pelosi Watch: “100 Hours” Agenda Extends to Two Weeks…
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talks to reporters at a news conference about her plans for the first 100 hours of the new congress at the Capitol in Washington, December 14, 2006.
The Boston Globe: The first 100 hours
House Speaker-design…
# January 5th, 2007 at 6:50 am

Oliver says:
What you call a whimper, we call a majority.
# January 4th, 2007 at 1:11 pm


Roy Jacobsen says:
Oliver,
Just to make the distinction clear, a whimper is a sound, and as such, is something that a majority can make.
Others have observed that the goalposts of those grand “100 hours” promises are already moving; it remains to be seen how many of them are fulfilled at all. Remember: They’re still politicians, even if they’re your politicians.
# January 4th, 2007 at 4:14 pm


Ironman says:
The party v. Performance ratio is already approaching Hastertian levels….maybe tommorrow the Dems will kick someone else out of a cherished office or someone important public priority
# January 4th, 2007 at 7:43 pm


I. M. Neiman says:
I preddict an ambitious liberal agenda will be their undoing! They think they won back the Congress because of the power of their liberal ideas, they are wrong.
No matter what they pass, a divided Senate will not automatically rubber stamp their legislation, I supect very little will gain Senate approval; and God willing Bush will use the Veto pen liberally, thus this majority will truly end with whimper.
# January 4th, 2007 at 7:53 pm


S.J. says:
Federal funding of stem cell research is ridiculous and a waste of money
let the private sector finance it
they are not
and that is telling
maybe Nancy Pelosi is merely trying to validate the stem cell headquarters selection in SF
# January 4th, 2007 at 8:04 pm


John F Not Kerry says:
Does that mean 100 business hours?
# January 5th, 2007 at 5:21 pm