QUESTION: Your vote last November was worth something - have you gotten back a fair return?

[RiverStone]

Just wondering...:shrug:

[WilliamPitt]

1. Yes

How easily we forget what happened during all those years of one-party rule.

Gonzales is on fire, and each day increases the probability of Rove before a Conyers committee.

The three hundred wretched nightmare bills we'd have been hit with in the absence of the '06 victory never came to pass...literally.

This Iraq capitulation sucks, no doubt.

But the achievement of a small grip is probably necessary.

Anyone who thought '06 would bring rainbows and bunnies and total victory over the GOP was dreaming.

[Deep13]

6. No bunnies?

:cry:

[RiverStone]

11. Yes and No here...

YES - Thank goodness for Congressional oversight - we finally have it.

YES - I do give kudo's to Nancy & Co. for the first 100 hours - new blood helped there lots!

On the flip side...

NO - Capitulation to Shrub! Never expected DEMS giving him such a large hook to wiggle off of.

* * * * *

I think the DEM party is going through an identity crisis. It remains to be seen if my vote will pay the dividends as advertised.

I look to Feingold and Kucinich as the moral compass of our party; the question is will the party establishment look to the will of the voters to find theirs?

[atreides1]

2. I thought I had

But at this point in time, I'm not so sure!!!

[More Than A Feeling]

3. No doubt about it.

I no longer have to stress out about what new vile schemes congressional Republicans will barf out upon the public. They have to react and defend against us, rather than the other way around. How well they do it is not as important as not having them on the offensive anymore.

Moreover, now there are Democratic hearings that don't occur in closets somewhere.

[uppityperson]

4. Yes. I expected only to slow down the destruction.

Slow it down and continue to work on someday stopping it, perhaps even reversing it. Low expectations helps.

[Deep13]

5. Sort of.

Ohio flipped from R to D in these offices:
U.S. Senate
1 or 2 U.S. House
Governor & Lt.
Sec. State
Atty. General
Treasurer
Larger minorities in state house and senate.

The one D on the Ohio Supreme Ct. retired and the seat went to an R.

The problem nationally is that the majority is not acting like one and they forget that only they can appropriate funds.

[William769]

7. Yes.

I shudder to think where we would be right now, if we still had a Republican controlled Congress. I may not have gotten what I wanted, but I may have stopped the other side from being a steamroller.

[NavyDavy]

8. hellllllll!!!!! yes.....those who forget history are doomed to

repeat it.....i will do what ever it takes to get moe Dems in and more repukes out....

[mmonk]

9. My House rep votes the way I would. So with him, yes.

However, he hasn't signed on to the DK impeachment articles yet. I would say no on governor. He hasn't done anything about the torture flights coming out of my state which I consider like the rest of the world and the constitution as illegal. Therefore any other office he seeks, I won't vote for him. So far so good on the rest.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Yes, the power of the gavel gave us the

abilty to investigate

And the back benchers might turn against the leadership still

Many of them back benchers were elected last november

They have not voted yet

Now have you called your rep?

I have

[displacedtexan]

12. Yes.

The wins last November were well outside the Repuke cheat margin.

Think about it. 6 years of R shit v 4 months of D clean-up attempts
(without a veto-proof margin, but hey: it's a good start).

With Rs twisting their tightie whities like today, 2008 should secure
more Ds, a D prez, and the D control of replacing Supremes.

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. (Insert snort of derision here)

I am gay. I have NEVER gotten anything even close to a fair return on my vote.