[by THUNDERLOAF]
BRENDAN SKWIRE: One would think that the Democrats, who now control both houses of Congress and the White House, would be taking the bull by the horns and ramming their agenda through despite the objections of the defeated and humiliated Republican Party. […] So you’d think the Democrats would be eager to reverse all that. You’d also think the Democrats would be eager to fulfill some of their own promises, like that universal 
health care thing we’ve heard so much about, or making it easier for unions to organize. Instead, we get bullshit like Chaka Fattah selling out on his promises to end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spending the last week refusing to say where he stands on public health care. We get Bob Casey and Patrick Murphy voting to gut our Fourth Amendment rights, saying it’s perfectly OK for the government to read our e-mail and listen in on our phone conversations for no reason at all. We get the Democratic leadership in D.C. coalescing around an embittered, self-serving Republican who openly admits he became a Democrat because he couldn’t win with his base anymore. And after years of telling constituents, “we need 60 votes to get anything passed” (even when that’s such a baldfaced fucking lie that even the Wall Street Journal called it out as the bullshit it is), guess what happens the very day that Al Franken gives them the magic number? MORE