Reply #10: Good point!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

If this is the best they can do with 59 votes in the Senate, then we can expect only worse when there are fewer of them.

I am so sick of being told that things (health care, withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan, repeal of the Patriot Act, reinstatement of Glass-Steagall, repeal of the Telecommunications Act, etc.) will be better when some later event happens:

"Wait till we regain control of the Senate."

"Wait till we regain control of the House."

"Yeah, we have Congress, but we can't do anything because there isn't a Democrat in the White House."

"Sorry, doing the right thing (about health care, war, civil rights, the financial industry) is not politically feasible."