Have they softened the rhetoric of the Repukes?

First of all you immediately lose any debate in which you stoop to the level of the immature changing titles of the opposing party. I don't like to be called a DemoCrap and I don't like seeing the word Repuke. All it does is trumpet immaturity. If you truly want to change the rhetoric, begin with your own.


Have they made a difference in how the government is serving the people?

Well, I would say the capitulation of the Republican majority in the House on the payroll tax issue has proved that government is changing. Whether the Occupy movement has anything to do with it or not remains to be seen, but you can bet it has begun to strengthen the backbone of our Democratic leadership.

Your paragraph doesn't point out any accomplishments at all.

That is one persons interpretation.