Why Aren't We Doing Better? - A List for Democrats

So why can’t a Democratic White House and a Democratic Congress bring about the kind of change we want?

Here’s what we’ve been hearing:

• Obama’s not very progressive
• The Democrats have no guts
• Corporate and financial interests control Congress
• The Republicans tricked us again
• It’s a conservative country
• Americans are dumb
• The Bush deficit
• The media can’t cover complex issues
• It’s too late to liberalize this nation
• It’s Nixon’s and Reagan’s fault
• Religious people are manipulated
• The working class doesn’t vote
• Clinton damaged the presidency
• Iraq and Afghanistan burn up the budget
• Larry Summers

 Here are a few reasons to be hopeful:

• Obama is 48 and getting smarter
• Right wing Republicans will devour their party
• Henry Waxman
• Unemployment has bottomed out
• Health reform will pass
• Young voters lean toward tolerance
• American’s aren’t so dumb
• The EPA is doing its job again
• Democrats want to win
• Progressives know how to organize

Who knows what will be. My advice is to stay positive, enjoy the ride and try to remember what it was like just a few years ago. Need any help...?:

• Dick Cheney
• Donald Rumsfeld
• John Ashcroft
• Gale Norton
• John Roberts
• Tom Delay