GOP Not Enjoying the Minority Status it Created

The GOP House members are complaining about the heavy-handed tactics of the new Speaker:

Rep. Nancy Pelosi publicly and repeatedly pledged before November's election that if Democrats won a House majority and she became speaker they would treat Republicans with respect and comity and would foster bipartisanship.

Instead, three weeks into a session in which the strong-willed Pelosi has rammed through important legislation and major rule changes, increasingly exasperated and angry Republicans are asking when the new Democratic speaker and her leadership team will keep their pledge to create a less-partisan, more-open atmosphere.

Democrats counter that their much ballyhooed "Six for '06" legislative package, which included items such as raising the minimum wage and fostering embryonic stem cell research, was a hurried exception to the deliberative, inclusive fashion in which they expect to run the House over the next two years. They also say that the same Republicans guilty of heavy-handed behavior when they ran the House shouldn't be so quick to criticize the new majority just getting its feet wet.

"Whine me a river,'' one senior Democratic House aide said, referring to Republican gripes.

My sentiments exactly. Sorry, GOP, but if you guys hadn't forgotten how to be Republicans, you wouldn't be in the minority now. You're now experiencing the results you created over the last two years.