Do any of you remember all the stories about the Clinton administration trashing the White House before Bush took over? Surely you remember, Fox News talked about nothing else for like three months. And of course it all turned out to be crap, even though right-wingers still occasionally mention it as if it wasn't.

Either way, don't ever dare bring it up again.

Congress's Inaction Threatens Funding

The Republican-controlled Congress's decision to adjourn a week ago before completing many of the spending bills that finance the federal government will reverberate in ways large and small...

Democrats say they had little choice but to take this tightfisted approach after Republicans dumped so many unfinished spending bills in their lap. "We did not call the shots here," maintained incoming House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.), who said that with the fiscal year well underway and Democrats assuming power with a full slate of priorities, he will have little choice but to put the government on autopilot.

It has been nearly 20 years since congressional failures left the government to be financed under spending guidelines and formulas rather than line-by-line policymaking. But to federal budget experts, this year's breakdown was hardly surprising. Not since 1994, the last year of Democratic control, has Congress actually passed all of its spending bills...the Senate did even less. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) simply decided none of the domestic spending bills would get time on the Senate floor before the election.

"The breakdown of regular order this cycle -- indeed the failure to get our bills done -- should be squarely placed at the feet of the departing Senate majority leader," said outgoing House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.).

Petulant little bastards to the last. Here is what they really thought of you and the trust you placed in them. Not only has the "Republican Revolution" collapsed under the weight of its own moral bankruptcy, we see now that they couldn't even do their job in the 12 years they held power. To be fair, they did manage to impeach a sitting president over a blowjob (with Mark Foley earnestly voting "Yea"), and they did make Jack Abramoff very happy over the years. Not a whole lot else, though.

Keep that fresh in your mind when they come around in '08 and tell you they want Congress back...