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May 10, 2006

Another of the many reasons that the Democrats are completely different from the GOP

Democrats believe in oversight:

In a recent spate of interviews, Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi has emphasized her party's fast-forward version of its first Hundred Days in power -- in this case, what the Democrats would do in their first week running Congress. They would raise the minimum wage for the first time since 1997. They would repeal the section of the Medicare drug plan that forbids the government from negotiating lower prices with the drug industry. They would fully implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, and they would restore the congressional rule, suspended by Republicans, requiring that all new programs be paid for by a specific new spending source or offset by a commensurate cut in another program.

Pelosi doesn't deny that Congress would resume its oversight functions, but she has made clear that any decision to impeach anybody (which is not on her agenda) would be hers and the caucus's -- not John Conyers's, certainly not the Democratic blogosphere's.

Or to phrase it a different way: The Congress will hold the Executive Branch accountable to the Constitution and the laws of the land.

The Republicans aren't scared of impeachment. That's a long way off if it happens at all (and I believe it should). The Republicans are paralyzed to death at the idea that law and order will be restored in government. That means a bunch of them will be caught and held responsible for their actions.

And for the GOP, that's going to be a bitter pill indeed.

Posted by Carla at May 10, 2006 12:58 PM

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