Will the Democrats screw it up?

[Cyrano]

It's been about 45 years since Democrats last achieved greatness with the civil rights act and the voting rights act.

Ever since then, they seem to have lost their souls. Jimmy Carter was a good man who was totally ineffective. Bill Clinton introduced us to the term "Republican Lite." And during every Republican administration in between, Democrats have caved, groveled and betrayed their principles.

They now control the White House and both houses of congress. Will we see universal health care? Will we see adequate funding for education? Will we see our veterans properly cared for? Will we see big business reigned in, regulated and forced to play by the rules? And will we see the modern equivalent of Roosevelt-like programs that put people back to work?

It's only been a hundred days, so perhaps it's too soon to tell. But try telling that to someone who can't feed their family, a child whose family can't afford a kidney transplant, someone whose job has just been shipped to Indonesia, a student working in WalMart because college costs are out of reach, or a veteran contemplating suicide with no one there to help.

A hundred days isn't a lot of time. But after the past eight years, it's up to the Democrats to start moving at warp speed to fix everything that has been intentionally destroyed. Perhaps step one should be to stop all spending on our phony wars and re-channel those dollars to where they are so desperately needed.

[Occam Bandage]

1. They'll probably do a pretty good job.

Partisans on the right will think they fucked the country over. Ultra-lefties will think they sold out and betrayed their promise. Most Americans will be happy with the real and beneficial change the Democrats have been and are continuing to bring to the country.

[babylonsister]

2. No. The budget has passed the House today, and is now up for

a vote in the Senate. That would include healthcare, education, environment, etc.



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[Cary]

3. The Whig Party isn't going to let them fail

They're the gift that keeps giving.

[Auggie]

4. I want to say no,

but corporate influence runs deep in Congress. I'm not holding my breath waiting for real reform.

[Birthmark]

5. History says they'll screw up eventually

How soon is anyone's guess.

[stillcool]

6. I won't see a thing..

unless I look for it. I think the VA issue was addressed in the Stimulus Bill, I think funding for education is part of the budget bill, we will get some kind of health care bill, but who knows what it will look like? We will see new regulation rules, might not be anything but a band-aid, but for those people who don't care to read the fine print, what does it matter? I don't know what your idea of 'warp' speed is when it concerns our government. Sometimes I think I live in a different country.

[butterfly77]

7. Yes..

[butterfly77]

8. Yes..