Wow, those guys really accomplished a lot!
Next time you hear righties whining about President Obama's lack of accomplishments during these last nine months, or about how the Democrats never keep any of their promises ....
Just take a minute to remember how successful the Republicans were at keeping their promises. Like privatizing Social Security, reforming Medicare, doing away with Welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and all those other social programs they detest. Another longtime political goal was to gut the Department of Education...also to rewrite the laws that govern the SEC, FDA, and all the other regulatory agencies they hate.
Oh, wait...none of that stuff really happened.
The reality is that the Republican Congress couldn't get anything done. Yes, they have Tax Cuts, Patriot Act, and the Iraq War on their side...and they expanded government powers and even gave Medicare a drug plan. But the rest of their time was spent on silly political grandstanding...which hurt them at the polls.
Egad, reams have been written about how do-nothing the Republican Congresses were...but now I keep reading revisionist history about how good they were at getting things done while we Democrats sit on our hands doing nothing.
I know that organizing Democrats is like herding cats -- but hell, we've gotten MUCH MUCH further at reforming healthcare than they ever got at reforming Social Security.
Yes, legislation IS like making sausage - ugly, messy, and difficult. But, everything being the same, Democrats now have a chance to show how much better we are at it than Republicans.
We WILL have health insurance/healthcare reform legislation passed this year...something no President has been able to do in the last 80 years. It will probably help more Americans than any single piece of legislation ever.
It's just killing Republicans though...they have thrown in with the health insurance industry, cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Also -- Obama has definitely accomplished a lot more in his first nine months of office than Bush ever did...unless you want to count 9/11 as an "accomplishment."
