Cheney: Democrats Can't Stand Up To House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Thursday, December 06, 2007 Fox News

WASHIGNTON — Vice President Dick Cheney is suggesting that House Democrats who rubber stamp Speaker Nancy Pelosi's wrongheaded agenda are lacking a spine.

Cheney expressed incredulity with the majority leadership during an interview published in The Politico newspaper on Wednesday. The White House later released a full transcript of the interview.

Senior Democrats "march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to the extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker. I'm trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened," he said.

Nevertheless, Cheney said the Democrats in Congress — who took over the majority after the 2006 midterm elections — have "produced absolutely nothing that I can see of benefit or consistent with the promises that they made when they went out and ran for election."

He noted specifically that senior Democrats he served with in Congress, namely Reps. Jack Murtha and John Dingell, defense appropriations subcommittee and Energy and Commerce Committee chairmen, respectively, are not driving the train, Pelosi is.

EDITORS NOTE: I think I heard him mumble something about 'shooting the wrong person'----dont quote me on that!!

Well, I have to agree with him on this one. Remember all the promises? I remember distinctly the comment " When the Dems are in control things are going to change"............anyone remember how they were going to shut off funding for the war?
The funniest part about it was that ....................some people actually believed them!

Well heck, didn't the Republicans march in lockstep behind Newt Gingrich? Isn't that how the modern congress works?
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But Newt got at least some of the things they promised passed. Far more than Pelosi and Co., can point to as successes.

Patience Ronno, patience, I'm sure once they get settled in this coming year they'll begin to undo some of the damage done by the Republicans.
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What happened to the "first hundred hours" rhetoric?

Why do you have Patience for our Congress, but none for Iraq's?

Nobody blowing up stuff in D.C.