With the Democrats taking over both the House and Senate this week, Republicans, for the first time in more than a decade, are forced to play the role of Sour-Patch Kids in the Democrats’ Garden Party.
Perhaps the best evidence of that could be seen at Wednesday’s Republican news conference for the “Minority Bill of Rights,” a House Resolution modeled on a 2004 proposal by then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to provide the minority party with a greater and more equitable role in the legislative process. At this Capitol Hill briefing, pols and press alike packed into the tight quarters of the House Radio TV Gallery while, two floors below, Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., simultaneously held a pen-and-pad briefing in his posh offices, already adorned with — one day early — the “Office of the Majority Leader” plaque.
