First 100 Days of Dem Congress a Bust

The Weekly Standard has some information on the Democrats first 100 days back in control:

The House Republicans have released a report on the First 100 Days of the Democratic Congress, concluding that Democrats have accomplished little legislatively. Partisan Democrats will argue that this is not a surprise, given that they have narrow majorities and a president in opposition. They'll argue that it's unfair to expect much in such circumstances.

But one might still expect them to vote on bills and send a few to the president, right? Well, not even that is happening.

Look at the list of priorities--the 'Six for 06' that the Democrats campaigned on. They promised to implement all recommendations of the 9/11 commission. Leaving aside that they dropped completely the Congressional reform component, the measure still has not been sent to the president. Do they regard it as a priority or not?

Raising the minimum wage has majority support in both the House and Senate--yet it still has not been sent to the president. The same is true of stem cell research. Legislation to change the interest rate on student loans, change the Medicare prescription-drug plan, and implement 'a comprehensive energy policy' have not even been voted on in the Senate.

They have gotten a few things done:

To see for yourself the 17 bills that have been signed into law this year, click here. Nine of the seventeen are bills to rename post offices and courthouses, which appears to be a bipartisan process--one of them is the 'Rush Hudson Limbaugh Courthouse.'

Rush Hudson Limbaugh was conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh's grandfather). I'm not sure how that one got by the Democrats.

If you'd like to see what the new GOP majority did in 1995 when faced with a situation similar to the Dems of '07, you can look at Captain Ed's report.