Remarkable! Moments after I left a comment under
tnlib’s latest post, I found this story at the NBC News website,
The Do-Something Congress:
This Congress … accomplished more, legislatively, than any other Congress since the 1960s (the Great Society) or the 1930s (the New Deal). In the past two years, it has:
- expanded the safety net with the health-care law;
- invested billions in the nation's roadways, airports, schools, and green technologies with the stimulus;
- reformed the nation's financial system with financial reform;
- passed billions in tax cuts for Americans with the stimulus and the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts
- expanded civil rights with the repeal of "Don’t Ask, Don't Tell."
And in its final piece of business, the Senate is currently working on one of the White House's top foreign-policy goals: ratification of the New START treaty with Russia. Then throw in all of the other legislation enacted this Congress, like credit-card reform and the Lilly Ledbetter anti-pay-discrimination act.
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Yet as we -- and others -- have pointed out before, political power in Congress comes and goes. What truly matters is what you do with it when you have it.
To repeat what I said earlier under
tnlib’s post:
If Jane Hamsher had her way, Congressional Democrats and Republicans would be locked in mortal combat, and none of this would have happened.
There is much to be admired in the patient and pragmatic approach – in contrast to being dogmatic and self-sabotaging. I will say this of folks who allow themselves to get angry in any debate: If you feel you must trade on anger to win an argument, then you have defaulted on any claim to win by persuasion.
So Jane, how is that
hopey changey thing working out for you? It works quite well, IMHO.
