Please name one good change since we won in November....

[Mend]

it feels like same shit, different day to me....

[Bluebear]

1. Very petty, but I love the caterwauling of Boehner and company

who are not being "included".

[catgirl]

15. Nancy Pelosi became the Speaker of the House

and she went to Iraq to see for herself what
the hell is really going on there.

[Taxloss]

2. Raising the minimum wage. n/t

[Taxloss]

7. Oh, and no more John Bolton, that's VERY good. n/t

[Cleita]

3. More is being talked about in the MSM that was pretty much

ignored before. So it's a month later, not a year later. I'm sure more and more will get done and talked about.

[MannyGoldstein]

4. Hey! But What About The 100 Hours?

Ever since the Dems took over, I've been geeting paid more, and the opposite sex finds me even more irresistable.

[Beelzebud]

5. Minimum wage was finally raised, and we are having oversight hearings.

The Democrats don't have a magic wand they can wave around and just magically make everything better.

It's going to take a lot of work, and it's not going to happen overnight...

[Freddie Stubbs]

6. The House enacted the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission

[Bobbie Jo]

8. Hearings, Hearings, Hearings...

C-SPAN has never been sooooo good. :popcorn:

[salin]

14. to be followed by more hearings, hearings, hearings

things that are actually, finally, getting an airing in the corporate media.

This is the way that the public psyche (that which becomes accepted as common knowledge/wisdom) shifts over time. Finally beginning to understand the corruption, the disregard for Americans, the trumping up of "Security" while actually eroding security and so much more which will now become wedded in the public psyche as what the GOP stands for. Only with this kind of shift - will there be bigger majorities (esp imp in the Senate) needed to pass legislation in both houses of congress which is necessary to actually be able to pass laws.

Heck the rw shrill/shill media is starting to sound 'fringe' to some listeners - or so I hear from some in this red state. That is indicative of a beginning of a public psyche shift which is needed for a real pendulum to swing (per political trends over time.) I find this hopeful for the future.

[Change has come]

9. No more Rumsfeld!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Breeze54]

18. No more Frist, Delay, or Santorum !!

:woohoo:

[Wildewolfe]

10. Real investigations

... have started. That's the path to all the other good stuff...;p

[Change has come]

11. No more rubberstamp Congress!

:toast:

[WilliamPitt]

12. Tuition benefits, Medicare's ability to negotiate with drug companies,

minimum wage raised, investigations on several fronts beginning, etc.

The only time government works quickly is when one party controls everything, and that's pretty much what the problem has been for the last several years.

One party isn't in control of everything anymore.

So that's a good thing, too.

[gratuitous]

13. Dang, you're right

We didn't turn the Titanic around overnight. Might as well put the Republicans back in charge again. Where the hell are the floating vehicles? And when are we going to Mars, bitches?

Total disappointment for those of us who have attention spans shorter than a gnat's eyelash.

[CoffeeCat]

16. If you're speaking specifically about...

...what has been done to stop the train wreck that is
the Bush cabal and its destruction of democracy, our
Constitution and its sickening wars---then there have
been no meaningful changes as of yet.

We hear a great deal of saber rattling, and we have
hearings. I think that is a good first step--but
everyone on DU knows that if we were in Congress
we would be steamrolling change through like we
had 24 hours to live. We all know that each of
us would be screaming from the rafters--and saying
so many things--that are NEVER said.

The fact is---the majority of Democrats are part
of the problem. Our government officials have been
converted into corporatists and war mongers. This
devolution happened slowly--and the current Congress
members who attain power now---got it by keeping
quiet or playing along for many years. Either that or
they're being blackmailed.

Feingold, Conyers and a handful of others are the
exceptions.

[Mend]

21. that is it.....thank you. eom

[DU9598]

17. Subpoena Power

Enough said ...

[emulatorloo]

19. and "bye bye, Senator Pat "Cover-Up" Roberts as head of senate intel

http://thinkprogress.org/roberts-coverup

So much at link, well worth following

<snip>

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): Chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee


As chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Pat Roberts’s (R-KS) duty is “to provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States” and “to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States.” But on the most important intelligence issues facing Americans – such as the manipulation of Iraq intelligence, warrantless domestic spying, and torture - Roberts has transformed his committee into a “Senate Coverup Committee” for the Bush administration.

<snip>

[mitchleary]

20. We get to hear you bitch more? jk

nt