Stupidest Political Stunt of 2007

The “first one hundred hours” of the Pelosi congress has to be the stupidest political stunt of 2007. Pelosi and company are staging a grand hoax by acting as if passing mostly token legislation in a period of weeks, not hours, will prove to the American people that the liberals are capable of governing this country. The democrats have already taken a day off for the National Championship football game, and they are using two clocks to tell time as they perpetuate the myth of one hundred hours of work.

Furthermore, only a small portion of the legislation that passes will ever become law. The mainstream media is busy heralding the accomplishment of this new congress, and is a partner in propaganda.
The clock is ticking for House Democrats, but it’s hard to tell what time it is.

On Friday, for example, the House was in session for a little more than eight hours. Only five of them, however, ticked off on new Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)’s 100-hour clock for quickly passing a six-bill agenda that Democrats promised voters last fall.

With passage of a bill to make the government negotiate for lower Medicare prescription drug prices, Pelosi, D-Calif., is two-thirds of the way done — in under a quarter of the allotted hours, according to her count.

That’s because just as the official clock for a basketball or football game stops for time-outs and commercial breaks, Democrats aren’t counting the minutes spent on business unrelated to those six designated bills.

So while the House had been in session for nearly 56 hours since the 110th Congress was sworn in Jan. 4, the clock on Pelosi’s Web site suggested that less than half that time — 23 hours, 34 minutes — had elapsed by the close of business Friday.

“We’re just counting the legislative hours,” Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill explained.

Welcome to the bizarre world of democrat rule in 2007.