Earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat-CA) said the following:

I pledge to you–let us all pledge to the American people that: we will look forward, not backward; we will join hands, not point fingers; we will rise to the challenge, recognizing that our love of country is stronger than any issue which may divide us.

Let us listen to each other. Let us respect every voice and view. And then together, let us act.

As we in Congress pledge to reach across the aisle, we recognize that history will measure this decisive moment not just by what we do here in Washington – but by how we reflect and respect how all Americans work together for the common good to strengthen America’s future and faith in itself.

As you’d probably expect, that attitude lasted all the way until the first actual debate on legislation (which sadly wasn’t SCHIP, but the so-called “stimulus”), when she 180°ed on the post/bi/nonpartisan act and said the following:

There’s a pattern here of Republican economic mismanagement and Democrats stepping up to do what’s needed for the good of the country while Republicans acted in a partisan and irresponsible manner.

So much for the New Tone era of Obamitics in DC. I wonder if we’ll start hearing soon about how President Obama failed to bring to Washington the New Tone he pledged during the campaign…

…you know what? Never mind. When it’s a Republican, it’s the President’s fault for not being New Tonal enough. When it’s a Democrat, it’s — you guessed it — the Republican minority’s fault for not warming to that supposed New Tone.

Oh well. Again, a tip of the cap to House Republicans, who yesterday united and made the Democrats own the crap sandwich they want to feed the American people. If the GOP can keep this up through 2010, we may see a whole new party in charge of Congress come the 112th convening.