Even the Washington Post can't help but report on one of the biggest broken promises by the DemocratICK majority in the House of Representatives -- free and open debate on the important issues facing America.

Democrats pledged to bring courtesy to the Capitol when they assumed control of Congress last month. But from the start, the new majority used its muscle to force through its agenda in the House and sideline Republicans.

And after an initial burst of lawmaking, the Democratic juggernaut has kept on rolling.

Of nine major bills passed by the House since the 110th Congress began, Republicans have been allowed to make amendments to just one, a measure directing federal research into additives to biofuels. In the arcane world of Capitol Hill, where the majority dictates which legislation comes before the House and which dies on a shelf, the ability to offer amendments from the floor is one of the minority's few tools.

Last week, the strong-arming continued during the most important debate the Congress has faced yet -- the discussion about the Iraq war. Democrats initially said they would allow Republicans to propose one alternative to the resolution denouncing a troop buildup but, days later, they thought better of it.

"It sounds like we're not doing what we said we would do -- I understand that," House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday. "Here, however, we believe we are very justified in one of the most important issues confronting the country, which clearly was a huge issue in the election and which got bottled up in the Senate."

Did you get that from the number two Democrat in the House? Silencing the minority is especially justified when it deals with extremely important issues like national defense! After all, we can't let the elected representatives of the American people actually have their say, offer amendments or alternative resolutions or have any significant input on little things like the War in Iraq. I guess he thinks that this "huge issue in the election" only counts when the people of a district elect Democrats -- that those who voted for Republicans are not even entitled to input on such an important matter.

It has been said that there are three types of falsehoods -- lies, damn lies, and statistics. Pelosi, Hoyer, and the rest of the Democrats have made it clear that the more accurate assessment is that there are lies, damn lies, and Democrat campaign promises of reform.

Oh, and by the way, whose proposal would the Democrats not even allow to be discussed?

Republicans hoped to introduce a bill similar to one written by Rep. Sam Johnson, a Texas Republican who flew combat missions in Korea and Vietnam and was a prisoner of war in Hanoi. It says Congress would not cut off money for soldiers in the field. But Democrats worried it would place some members of their party in a difficult position.

Dems have claimed that anything John Murtha does or says related to the military or the war cannot be disputed because he is a hero. Well, next to Sam Johnson, the corrupt windbag from Pennsylvania is nothing but a treasonous pussy -- and so the Democrats had to suppress Johnson's proposal at all costs. So much for respect for those who served.

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