Broken Vows

To no one's surprise, after only five days of basking in congressional power, which they believe is their birthright, it comes to light that the Democrats have lied to us.

Campaigning to expand the work week to five days, like those of us in the electorate, Dems are now only working four days a week. Home come? Monday's a holiday because of the Florida-Ohio game. I'm not making this up. And next Monday's a holiday, too, because it's MLK's birthday. Well, we can't expect the anointed to put in the same hours of labor that we mere mortals are expected to produce, can we?

But what's worse is despite Pelosi's campaigning against raising taxes, the very first vote of the 110th congress was to change the house rules in order to circumvent the super-majority rule necessary to enact tax increases. Others have taken notice, too:

"American taxpayers need to hold on to their wallets because the new House rules concerning taxes are not worth the paper they're written on," said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR).

"After spending an entire year on the campaign trail claiming she will not raise taxes, the first vote Nancy Pelosi brings to the floor for a vote as speaker will open the door to billions and billions of dollars of tax increases over the next two years," Mr. Norquist said.

Democrats cannot get elected by campaigning as who they really are. The midterm elections saw many "moderate" and "conservative" democrats win their races. But once in congress a democrat "grows," and is free to "vote his conscience." And that always means that we the taxpayers will once again foot the bill.

I'm not surprised, and yeah, I told you so.