Pelosi says she would drain GOP 'swamp'

[MagickMuffin]

Don't know if this has been posted already I didn't see anything....

Franklin Roosevelt had his first hundred days. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is thinking 100 hours. Time enough, she says, to begin to "drain the swamp" after more than a decade of Republican rule.

As in the first 100 hours the House meets after Democrats - in her fondest wish - win control in the Nov. 7 midterm elections and Pelosi takes the gavel as the first Madam Speaker in history.

Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation."

Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Time remaining until 100 hours: Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step. Cut the interest rate on student loans in half. Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1130AP_Pelosi_Time.html

[seabeyond]

1. do nothing dems? with no plan? gotta be spin. lookie, they are

antsy to get on with actually working for the people. me thinks it has been pure rhetoric and a party not in power

[Ino]

2. drain the swamp... great Katrina innuendo

n/t

[Straight Shooter]

3. Sounds good to me.

I'm getting tired of bush fiddling while the Repubs are diddling.

[Lex]

4. And I hope an *actual* investigation of events leading up to 9/11

including subpoenas and under oath testimony from Bush, Cheney, Rice, Tenent, etc.

The 9/11 Committee that was in place previously was not adequate. Just ask the 9/11 families.

[savemefromdumbya]

6. get 'them' behind bars once and for all

[savemefromdumbya]

5. will find hundereds of slimey things at the bottom