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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Dennis, for everything. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The fact is, between 1994 and 2006, NO Democrats got anything passed. At least not anything that mattered.
Even Teddy Kennedy wasn't able to do much of anything in those years but limit the damage.
You can't judge a politician of the minority party by how much legislation she or he got passed. The only kinds of bills such people can get passed are those that are totally innocuous(and therefore worthless)and those that are watered-down-to-nothing(and thus not WORTH passing).
Getting bills passed isn't worth being silent on immoral wars, or the use of torture, or the obscene level of the war budget, or corporate dominance, or the weakening of unions, or social policies designed not to help the poor but just to punish them. When you concede all of those things(as YOUR kind of Democrat always does), that doesn't leave any other issues that actually matters on which a person can still BE different than the Republicans. Everything else is a bland side issue.