Dems Already Break Key Campaign Promise

That was fast.

by Rod D. Martin
November 20, 2006

The Washington Post reports this morning that Democrats have already thrown out one of their most-repeated campaign promises:  to fully implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.  Key sources on the Hill report that that idea is an absolute dead letter, more than a month before the new Democrat majority even takes office.

Don't get us wrong: we're not enamored of all of the Commission's recommendations either.  Much of the Commission's work was distinctly flawed.

It's just that Democrats spent the past three years beating George Bush to death with the Commission's report, condemning him as "incompetent" and even unconcerned about the War on Terror because he (and Republican Congressional leaders) would not immediately do every single thing the Commission suggested.  Indeed, as the Post states:

It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement a…