Analysis: Democrats Win Some Fights

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled Congress is staggering home for the holidays. Democrats, demoralized after last year's election losses, have a spring in their step after outmaneuvering
President Bush and GOP congressional leaders in a series of session-ending clashes.

"This has been the saddest day of my life," Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record) lamented at one point, mourning the demise of legislation to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The drilling issue has been a crusade of the 82-year-old Alaska lawmaker for more than a quarter-century. It was a White House priority, as well, and Bush made its enactment part of a first-term energy policy.

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[Vincardog]

1. Cry me a river for Ted Stevens

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[MurrayDelph]

2. Waitammit!

THIS is the saddest day of his life?

The day Reagan died? Not as sad?
The days his parents died? Not as sad?
9/11? Not as sad?

But, the day his boondoggle for his rich buddies to destroy one of America's last pristine wildernesses fails to
pass, THAT'S his saddest day ever?

And people say Republicans have no heart!

[Demeter]

3. And We Are Going to Win a Lot More

No resting on laurels until the BushCo regime and the complicit GOP are all in jail and stripped of assets.