Reply #4: You could't be more full of shit. Here's why:

[RBInMaine]

1) SCHIP, all kinds of green initiatives, Lilly Ledbetter law, working to close GITMO, new financial regs., a stimulus to save or create well over a million jobs, more stem cells, fewer choice restrictions, ... can you find anything there "progressive" enough for you? Or are you just another chronic bitcher?

2) The Dems have a DIVERSE national caucus, and this is a good thing as the RePUKES go TeaHater/Purist. Your ultra-left majority pipe dreams are just that. Actually having to GOVERN is reality you can't fathom from the back seat. It is on balance a moderate NATION, not The United States Of KucinichLand.

3) Health reform is very, very difficult. It is very complex, and requires huge compromise in a big, ideologically diverse nation. Sorry, but that is the way it is. It is the idea to excise tax "Cadillac Plans" that has people up in arms. They are working to tweak that. The current pipe dream of single payer is nice and one I'd love to see, but even your obvious hero Kucinich says there is not enough of a national movement to accomplish that now. The health bill does many good things too, and it is just a START. You only see the negative, much like Eeyore as some say these days.

4) The sitation in Mass. is due to campaign failures on Coakley's part, not some massive dissallusionment with the Dems there. In a deep recession, people are always "angry" and often take it out on incumbents or the incumbent party. I agree Coakley took this for granted for too long, but the ground is hot there now, the Dems and Unions are working the ground and phones hard, and I think they will win it by 3-5 points.