Broken Promises and Secret Lies – it’s not a cheesy paperback; it’s the new GOP congress!
By: Kirsten—January 6th, 2011
Wow, GOP – you just rolled into town and you can’t pretend for even two days that your campaign promises weren’t just cynical pandering?
Congress convened only yesterday and the GOP House delegation already ditched their “openness and transparency” theme. Looks like the new theme is “openness and transparency, whenever it’s politically advantageous or whatever.” Check out this Politico story – it completely calls them out on their broken promises:
“After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would repeal the health care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the health care repeal will be all but shut down.”
But it doesn’t stop there – you might think “yeah, no surprise – that’s the health care bill and the new GOP’ers all ran against it” – but it goes waaaay beyond the health care bill. We’re talking about a full scale flip-flop:
“After calling for a strict committee attendance list to be posted online, Republicans backpedaled and ditched that from the rules. They promised constitutional citations for every bill but have yet to add that language to early bills.”
Seriously, GOP? You put on such a good show during campaign season! Remember your “Pledge to America”? That new “governing agenda” where you said you would cut $100 billion from the budget, among other things? Oh, right, you all gave up on that promise, too. Turns out this governing stuff is actually important, sometimes very difficult, and too complex to boil down to a slogan on a sign.