The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
~Andre Gide~
We have the first – but presumably not the last – reports of high-pitched whining, a great wringing of hands, and shrieks of knicker-twisting coming from the Republican side of Congress. The following discussion was on NPR’s All Things Considered today (emphasis mine).

When the new Congress is sworn in Thursday, for the first time in 12 years, the Democrats will be in control. In addition to a historic first -- Nancy Pelosi will become the first woman speaker of the House -- the new Democratic majority plans to bar Republicans from offering amendments to bills the House will take up in its first 100 hours.
Republicans employed a similar tactic in their 12 years as the House majority, barring Democrats' amendments, not letting them see bills until they were to be voted on and giving them little input in committees.
But Florida Republican Adam Putnam says the situations are not similar. "The difference is the important point here is that the American people were promised a new way of doing business in the 110th Congress," Putnam says. "There was clearly a high level of frustration in the heartland about the way people viewed the workings and procedures in this building, and they were promised a fresh approach, a fresh start."

If you listened to the actual recording of Putnam’s comments, you would hear the pauses as he struggled to find the right words to express how the American people should be able to expect, um, something better than, well, fresher than, uhh, Putnam’s own party had delivered over the past dozen years! I can hear the pouting and the stamping of little feet all the way up here. In the heartland.

On a brighter note, while at the dentist today the hygienist commented that I “have the gums of a 20 year old”. I didn’t grind her compliment into the dirt by responding that there are other body parts I would prefer to have retained their 20 year old, uh, sprightliness.