What the Democrats are Up To

Rahm Emanuel (D-IL and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) lied about his knowledge of Mark Foley.

I wrote in May that William Jefferson (D-LA) was corrupt and wondered what he was still doing in Congress. Remember all that stuff about the raid on his office being illegal because of the separation of powers? Turns out in July a judge ruled it was a legal search, good. But I can't find anything about the investigation since then. Can no investigation in Washington finish? They have they guy on videotape accepting the bribe and found the money in his freezer! Somehow Jefferson won reelection this term and now the Democrats have to figure out what to do with him. Now we see Pelosi May Give Jefferson a Lesser Committee Assignment or hopefully no committee assignment.

The 109th Congress (sucked and) failed to pass 9 of 11 spending bills and did basically nothing fiscally, leaving it for the 110th. The Democrats plan to concentrate on other priorities and will (I think this is the right term) agree to a year-long spending resolution. So the budget won't be resolved until the fiscal year ends but will continue on autopilot. This has the downside that things continue so some programs get squeezed but the upside the the earmark program which has turned into a pork buffet (bridge to nowhere) is stopped. "It's not a good way to do budgeting over the long term" but it seems good for the short term. I guess something favored by conservative Republicans and The Concord Coalition must be interesting.