In a news article entitled "House Democrats Rapidly Unleash Sharp Attacks," New York Times, reporter Carl Hulse writes about the progress Democrats are making against the new Republican majority after only seventy-two hours of the 112th Congress. The article leads: After four years of harassment by an aggressive Republican minority, House Democrats evidently absorbed a lesson along with all those political blows: the route back to Congressional power is paved with frontal assaults on the practices and policies of the majority.You see? Republicans invented harassment and frontal assaults against the majority, a lesson absorbed by the benevolent Democratic opposition.That Democrats are unleashing harsh attacks against the new Republican majority is no surprise, nor is it surprising that Democrats are attacking in their first three days in the minority. In fact, aside from what the article reveals about the ideology of the New York Times and Mr. Hulse, reports of gratuitous...(Read Full Post)