Dems accuse GOP of breaking 'Pledge' at 'dizzying' pace

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The Hill:


Democrats are reveling this week as GOP leaders have walked back some of their top campaign promises just days after taking control of the lower chamber.

Republicans stormed to power in November's elections on vows of balanced budgets, increased transparency, and reduced deficit spending. Yet in the first days of the 112th Congress, GOP leaders have adopted rules allowing deficits to explode; dismissed Congress's nonpartisan budget score-keeper as irrelevant; slashed a spending-cut promise in half; and declined to pay for a controversial bill repealing the new healthcare law.

Republicans have defended their actions, insisting they still intend to make good on the goals outlined in their "Pledge to America." But Democrats have pounced on the moves as indication that the Republicans' campaign messaging was simply political theater, not a governing strategy. That the events have happened so quickly has only fueled the Democrats' criticisms.