What grade would you give Nancy Pelosi and company thus far?

[Imagevision]

We have a new house and Senate, has there been really much to brag about this new House & Senate?

Pelosi- A.
- B.
- C.
- D.?

[MadBadger]

1. C+

[Dinger]

2. Incomplete

They haven't earned a grade yet.

[cynatnite]

3. Agreed n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

4. D minus so far

[napi21]

5. I'd give her a c+. I think she has done quite a few good things, but

she's having difficulty hearding the cats (the disorganized and very different thinking Dems). I certainly prefer her strategy over that of Delay who ruled and hearded by threat and intimidation!

[southerncrone]

6. Agree w/Dinger....Mission NOT ACCOMPLISHED

[pork medley]

7. F-

capitulating dickheads, cashing in on the deaths of innocent people

[babylonsister]

11. They are a lot of things, but "cashing in on the deaths..." ain't one of them. nt

[pork medley]

17. what have they done for us?

they havent responded to our demands as a people, they are totally unaccountable. are not the democrats our little center-left-wing of a tight duopoly?

[babylonsister]

34. I didn't say they weren't spineless, but prove they've 'cashed in'. nt

[pork medley]

75. should i go into several democratic congresspersons' ties to

corporate plundering in iraq

(sorry, i would do it now but its too damned early for me here =/)

[Imagevision]

18. "cashing in on the deaths..." ain't one of them? - How did Pat Tillman die again?

[babylonsister]

32. You're blaming Pelosi for that? Think again. nt

[Imagevision]

41. Not blaming Pelosi for Tillman - only the manner in which it was reported

remember, Pelosi said oversight must be restored?!!

[babylonsister]

44. Blame the current government, the media, the military, but she had

zilch to do with what happened, or didn't, to Tillman. If anything, Waxman held hearings to expose the bullshit.
I love giving credit where it's due, but this isn't fair.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

14. I would call the Republicans "capitulating dickheads" as they approved of everything Bush wanted.

But, that's just me. :shrug: MKJ

[pork medley]

25. republicans didnt capitulate

they were just naturally scum, right :shrug:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

28. They didn't offer one iota of opposition, they agreed with everything that Bush wanted.

Is that bad? MKJ

[JVS]

64. NEWSFLASH: It is not the goal of congressional Republicans to fight Bush

They are on the same side!

[IdaBriggs]

8. D. Impeachment, war funding, accountability -- where is it?

So far it just seems to be business as usual -- its just POLITICS. I want some CHANGE. I want ACCOUNTABILITY.

I want the Republicans who have been ENABLING the RAPE of my Country, my Military, and my Constitution to find themselves IN JAIL. I want CONGRESS to hold this administration ACCOUNTABLE.

If they can't do that, then I want them the hell out of Washington!!!

[lonestarnot]

15. Plain and simple, no fuss, no mess just fucking IMPEACH

[Imagevision]

43. Again, How can Clinton qualify for impeachment lying about a BJ and Bush

going to war using (according to Colin Powell) false and in some cases fabicated information. Yet slick Willy was the bad guy and busg is the war president? something is jaberwocky there is no logic to this, only manipulation by the msm to not report.

[lonestarnot]

57. It's called through the looking glass. Ever done LSD? oh nevermind and

neither have I.

[wildbilln864]

21. Damn right!

:yourock:
I completely agree! The Bush/PNAC juggernaught hasn't even slowed down!

F!

[Telly Savalas]

9. Pelosi gets a D for her job of herding the cats.

Most of the cats get F's.

[Imagevision]

10. They've said two months ago they would subpeona Rove and email copies but

dice, nothing. They don't seem to be in any hurry like allowing the clock to run out...?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. F

Contributed little of value to the class, while failing to complete all assignments.

[133724]

13. c+ or incomplete

[Robbien]

16. Tell me one bill that has become law. Tell me one GOPer sitting in jail

Nothing has changed since November. Nothing.

And nothing is currently on the table which will change anything for the better.

The only difference is the DC Dems are getting richer.

[Dinger]

23. Robbien, That Deserves It's Own Thread!

That is it in a nutshell! Thank you!!!

[Dinger]

27. Like I Said, Incomplete As Hell (nt)

[babylonsister]

37. How soon we forget:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/washington/19cong.html?ex=1326862800&en=4f7fd2c287a09f42&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[Robbien]

40. Of which not one has passed into law. Not one. None

Don't worry no one is forgetting.

[babylonsister]

42. Min. wage has passed, as has stem cell; it's the dim one who's

stonewalling that.
They're not perfect, but that wasn't bad for the first few hours, given what they had to work with.

[Imagevision]

49. Min. wage has passed because Pelosi needed something from Bush to report back to the people

Bush got his Billion+ check which by the way is only good thru September and Bush will be hitting us up again for another 100 billion - and Nancy Pelosi got Bush's ok to raise the minimum wage, everyone's happy? not impressive at all, the Dems caved just like not following through with Rove & emails subpeona.

I believe the Dems will allow Bush to run the clock ot and hope that the great white hope Hillary will be elected so she can "bring the troops home. of course we'll have to wait anothe 18 months before this happens.

[Robbien]

51. They passed pretend bills

none of which ever got finalized. So the first couple of hours they did a bunch of busy work which did diddlysquat in the real world. Just fancy foot work all just for show.

They passed no bills. None. Then when they should not have passed a bill, they draw up a big fancy full funding bill and passed it. The only bill they pass and it was a doozy. They voted to keep dropping bombs on Iraq.

[Phredicles]

60. It's the stonewalling that's the point, or rather, the Democrats'

unwillingness to confront it. So far we've been told two things:

1) Impeachment has to be "off the table" in order to concentrate on ending the war, the economy, the environment, and all the other "more important things".

2) Nothing of substance can be accomplished regarding ending the war, the economy, the environment, and all the other "more important things" because of the dim one's stonewalling.

My gradebook shows plenty of excuses but a big fat zero in terms of assignments completed.

[Selatius]

62. Self-delete.

[Freddie Stubbs]

48. The minimum wage increase was signed into law last week

[Robbien]

54. No. I do not give anyone credit for that shameful act. They should be ashamed

Saying "here you guys can have a couple of bucks and don't complain that we are going to keep dropping bombs on Iraq and keep the blood running in the streets of Baghdad".

[Edweird]

71. It was tied to the funding for the war that is killing our mothers fathers brothers sisters sons and

daughters. It is beyond shameful. A horrible and hideous price to pay for a few pennies.

[illinoisprogressive]

19. B-

i give points for trying. I know it's hard without enough of a majority to get the things you want passed and have to really twist arms on our side of the aisle to stick together against the gop.
I think alot of people expect stuff to happen magical and if not, they get pissy abit.
it is easy to be outside and complain. We'd have to be there to understand it's really hard to make things happen quick. i'm willing to wait until jan before I get mad.

[Cleita]

20. C- and heading for D, not into failure yet but trying.n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. D-

[Imagevision]

24. Bush gets his 100 Billion war check - Pelosi gets her $2.00 raise package past

Someone needs a current version of playing politics For Dummies Only.

[Captain Hilts]

26. Pelosi gets a 'B', voters get an 'F' for not giving Dems a larger majority. nt

[BlooInBloo]

29. In particular, the fuckwipe Connecticut electorate.

[Hippo_Tron]

36. Voters get a 'C' for not giving Dems a better majority

An F would've been voting the Republic Party back into office even after all of that shit, and I'll give the electorate some credit for not doing that.

But if they really were interested in doing something about Iraq, they wouldn't have returned assholes like Lieberman to the Senate.

[izzie]

30. I guess a B She could clean Congress up a little more

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[mitchum]

31. Certainly not a (D)

[Hippo_Tron]

33. Incomplete, I'll grade them when they adjourn next year

I'll also take into consideration that pissypants doesn't have to run for re-election and therefore he can veto everything. If he were up for re-election they could force his hand more because he would have to say that he was getting something done.

[montanacowboy]

35. D fuckin MINUS

Failing and getting worse

[Imagevision]

38. I give Pelosi a C - what I don't go with is all talk and no action...

yak-yak-yak, Nance you wanted the big plane, you got what you needed, what else do you need for tools to get the job done. I believe an employee should be well-equipped to do his/her job, but make no mistake! I want results! not Rhetoric.

We know Bush is an assh*le, we believed you could handle him.

[glowing]

39. F--- war criminals still in white house.. and soldiers not home from

Iraq, job losses to overseas still rapant, home forclosure still high, Katrina mess not even touched.. the list is endless of not accomplished.
Failure... but I didn't have too much faith in this group. They are rather bought by corporate interests themselves.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

52. Do the Republicans get a pass or what? If they voted with the Dems we'd be out of Iraq tomorrow.

MKJ

[Robbien]

74. The OP is not asking about GOPers, it is asking about Pelosi

GOPers are good at what they do for the GOP and the rabid right. GOPers want this middle east carnage, so GOPers are very effective in the eyes of their supporters.

This OP asks about how Democrats in Democratic Underground view their Democratic Leadership. The Democratic Leadership which drew up a bill for more carnage in the Middle East. Democratic Leadership which asked everyone in Congress both Dems and GOPers to please support their Iraq Carnage bill and vote for its passage. Well that Democratic Leadership got their Iraq Carnage bill passed. So now, the OP is asking how do you grade your Democratic Leadership's performance.

[glowing]

76. No, they don't get a pass. But I am specifically rating Pelosi

And I give her an F. I would give an F rating to all 3 branches at this time. It seems some people forgot their duty to protect the constitution and to listen to the people.

[BlooInBloo]

45. B-/C+

[Rydz777]

46. Incomplete. C- pending. Can be raised to A with funds cut-off.

[rhett o rick]

47. Nothing done on torture, domestic spying, habeas corpus, Iraq funding,

but we got a few cents on the minimum wage. who-ha.
Lots of investigations but no one in jail. Plame gets outed and nothing but Libby and he will never see jail.
And now Bush signs a directive giving him complete control of the Country and not a peep from Demo's or MSM.

[az chela]

50. How low can you go?????

[opihimoimoi]

53. I give a BIG B+,,,Bush and the GOP gets the Fuckin F...6 years in a ROW...F

[peacetheonlyway]

55. F-

delivered nothing of substance to a single american.

not even the minimum wage bill is worth getting excited about.

it's all been a wash.

the typification of compromise leading us NOWHERE.

she lost her shot at being president or VP when she said, 'impeachment is off the table'.

she clearly does not understand the core of democracy.

that people call the shots and representatives represent.

it's a representative government Pelosi.

F-

go read the fucking constitution will ya....

the rest of senate gets an f- except a few rare awesome folks like feinstein, conyers, waxman, you know, boxer, the old crew of truth brigade.

[orleans]

68. feinstein awesome? hahaha. what was the committee she finally

removed herself from

Army contract for Feinstein's husband
Blum is a director of firm that will get up to $600 million
URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth up to $600 million.

The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense jobs snared by URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.

Government contracting has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress and citizen groups, with critics decrying the political connections of firms winning lucrative jobs. Richard Blum, Feinstein's husband, serves on the company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock,

according to Hoover's Inc. research firm.

A Feinstein spokesman Monday declined to comment on the contract.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL

and more recently:

Dianne Feinstein resigns committee post amid scandal; accused of war profiteering

Posted by Joshua Holland at 12:52 PM on March 30, 2007.
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.


As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.


Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro's expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?


The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.


Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq war veterans. While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran's affairs.


Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don't have much to add. For background, check out Joshua Frank giving it to the Senator with both barrels, here.

I'll just say this. Even if you think this criticism of Feinstein is unfair -- as I know some do -- you have to acknowledge that this kind of stuff sends the message that all of Washington is the same. It allows Republicans to hold onto the delusion that their brand of corruption over the past decade was run-of-the-mill -- just Standard Operating Procedure for the party in power -- and it just demoralizes progressives.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/49970/

oh, you probably meant to say feingold. and if that is the case then i completely agree!

and btw--i liked the rest of your post, and mostly agreed w/everything you said. (however, i give out extra credit points for holding hearings--but if no action results from them then i cut the extra credit in half. therefore, i'm fluctuating between a D- and an F.)

[peacetheonlyway]

69. mixed up my Fein's I meant Feingold

not a big fan of feinstein for all the reasons you pointed out.

russ feingold.

did not mean to get that wrong. sorry.

[EFerrari]

78. I think you're confusing Feinstein with someone else. Feingold? n/t

[peacetheonlyway]

82. it was late, i was tired

i did confuse the two.

i meant feingold.

i would campaigned from washington to iowa for feingold.

i still hope he runs for 2008

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

56. F-

[AverageJoe]

58. F-triple minus

We're still at war. BushCo is still running the country into the sewer. The people we elected to fix these things have done nothing. They don't even talk a good game.

I am disgusted beyond belief.

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

65. patriot act... habeas corpus.. war.. i hear nothing but crickets

..and ka-ching

[emilyg]

59. C going on D soon

[Selatius]

61. She gets a B for effort, an incomplete for many bills that have been buried in committee

One of the bills being the minimum wage bill, but to Pelosi's credit, Harry Reid in the Senate didn't have enough votes to stop Repubs from tacking on tax cuts for various business interests. The minimum wage bill has been pigeonholed in the Ways and Means Committee now since, what, February?

[LibDemAlways]

63. She took impeachment "off the table" which basically gave

the Bush Crime Family permission to continue its six year (and counting) crime spree. The Dems are capitulating to chimp on Iraq. True,they hold hearings, but are long on talk and short on action. Whatever happened to the censure of Gonzo? Even that little bone to the base has gone quiet.

Major disappointment. Borderline F.

[earth mom]

66. A Big Fat F!

:grr:

[BlueIris]

67. Nancy Pelosi? A/A-. The rest of the Congressional Dems? Um...

er...maybe a C. If I was feeling generous. Which I'm not at the moment.

[Philosoraptor]

70. A disappointed F minus minus.

[Vidar]

72. D, & that's being generous.

[Edweird]

73. F

They suck. And not in the good way.

[porphyrian]

77. Overall D. From B- to F- individually (assuming there is an F-). - n/t

[Individualist]

79. F

For supporting corporations rather than the people of this country.

[EFerrari]

80. As in my teaching days, I ask people to grade themselves

and just keep working with them.

[dave_p]

81. Pelosi B-, Congress C

Much to brag about? Not yet.

[DRoseDARs]

83. A big, fat C. The Dems've done a lot of good so far, but they just couldn't help fouling up on Iraq.

eom

[Disturbed]

84. D- A lot of talk, little action.

She is probably a nice person but weak on action.

[Imagevision]

85. Pelosi it seems still thinks she's still in her first hundred hours, extremely

disappointing progress made so far. The only reason she got the minimum wage recently passed was to cave to Bush's 100 Billion dollar war bill. That's not impressive, but she looks pretty attractive and proper...?

They got the house and senate and still keep getting shut down, they can't even get Rove to testify while claiming they purportedly have the awaiting subpeona!!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

86. I Give Them A B. They've Done The Best They Can But Should've Held Out A Bit Stronger On The

funding bill. It's still early on though and it looks like some things are starting to ramp up, so I'm hopeful the next few months will be better.

[Rex]

87. C -

Although I would give individuals certain scores a lot higher than a C -.

Top on my list?

Henry Waxman - A+
Dennis Kucinich - A+
John Conyers - A+

Sorry, no Senators make the honor roll.

Oh, specicial mention - Joe Lieberman.

Joe Lieberman - F--
Typical Repuke Congresscritter - F---

Zell Miller - ?

[LSK]

88. B-