Pelosi’s Partisanship Falls Flat

Newsmax.com's Washington Insider Discusses how non-partisan the Dems have been since taking over the congress in January.

Coming to power, the Democrats promised they would work with Republicans in a bipartisan manner to achieve results for the country.

“I accept this gavel in the spirit of partnership, not partisanship,” a beaming Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues after her election as speaker. “In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.”

In fact, when it comes to cooperation across the aisle, Republicans say the Democrats have been far more intransigent than they were. When Dr. Paul S. Teller, deputy director of the House Republican Study Committee, e-mailed a staffer in the House Republican leadership to ask, “Any word on next week’s schedule?” the staffer e-mailed back, “Hahahahaha.”

While Republicans did not lay out a detailed agenda for Democrats when they were in power, they did give them a heads up on the issues most likely to come up during the week. “They have us on total lock-down mode,” said a senior GOP aide. “No amendments allowed. No advance notice of changes to bill text. Little advance distribution of bill text. We Republicans may not have been angels to the Democrats, but we never did this — and certainly not on legislation as big as the 100-hour agenda.” NEWSMAX.COM