The First Hundred Weeks

On the other side of the 100 Hour agenda is Lawrence O'Donnell from Huffington Post: "The biggest minimum wage increase in history is long overdue and very popular with voters. Why cram it into a frenzied legislative session with a bunch of other bills that will have a claim on headline space? Why not let the minimum wage increase have a hundred hours all to itself? Why not let each of the Pelosi agenda items have their own week in the media sun? Each of those weeks should be chosen carefully to maximize the political benefit with voters. That's the way successful Speakers used to play their winning hands. If they were going to cut interest rates on student loans in half, they would do it in June or September when the interested parties are intensely focused on getting out of or going back to school. Pelosi should be trying to find the right week or two for each of her easy agenda items, which is admittedly difficult in a year when the Iraq war/occupation/troop surge can dominate news coverage at any time. . ."