Another Democrat promise bites the dust.

As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of lawmaking.

House Democrats intend to pass a raft of popular measures as part of their well-publicized plan for the first 100 hours. They include tightening ethics rules for lawmakers, raising the minimum wage, allowing more research on stem cells and cutting interest rates on student loans.

But instead of allowing Republicans to fully participate in deliberations, as promised after the Democratic victory in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, Democrats now say they will use House rules to prevent the opposition from offering alternative measures, assuring speedy passage of the bills and allowing their party to trumpet early victories.

So, when it comes down to a choice between passing their cornerstone legislation and keeping their promise to the American people to operate in a new spirit of bipartisanship and openness, Queen Nancy and her merry band of left-wing jesters are going to allow no GOP input on ethics reform, the minimum wage or other major proposals.

Brian Daly, Queen Nancy's spokeswhoreperson claims that the first 100 hours is not the test of his boss's commitment to bipartisanship in the House.

"The test is not the first 100 hours," he said. "The test is the first six months or the first year. We will do what we promised to do."

No, Brian, you will show that the Democrat commitment to bipartisanship is a sham, and that when it comes down to anything significant, the Democrats will use their power to freeze out the GOP, despite the guarantees of a new tone in Washington.

H/T GOP Bloggers

UPDATE -- 1/3/2007: And now the Washington Post takes the Dems to task for their promise-breaking!

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Sounds like sour grapes to me, but lets face it you'd never be happy with anything the left would do. You guys just don't have it in you.

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The problem is that I rarelyr expect them to do the right thing.

If they were usually going to do the right thing, they'd be Republicans.

And you may notice that I can and do praise and support Dem proposals from time to time. Look around the site for a while and you'll find examples -- including one just below about Ted Kennedy.

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