As a Liberal I can't remember the last time I had something to celebrate about.

[Bandit]

I guess it was the election of 2008 and Democrats swept into Office with what I believed to be a huge Mandate for "Change" I truly wish I could brag about how well the Administration and Congress have done and feel true comfort in the direction America was taking..It just ain't so....It has been one major let down after another..And America continues to lurch to the Right...I guess my only hope is once it gets so far to the Right it will become Left..Might Happen in a few decades or so..

[KittyWampus]

1. DU'ers regularly post threads celebrating liberal accomplishments. Apparently you prefer ignoring

them.

[niceypoo]

4. Not in the last couple years they havent

There have been no, 'liberal accomplishments,' in a loooooonnnngggg time.

[no limit]

8. You know, specifics are always welcome

[blondeatlast]

2. Well, there's ... um, uh, well, aaaah...

I got nothin', sorry. Things looked kinda good when I had my son in '97. That was then.

[LWolf]

3. You are seeing the change you voted for.

It was a mistake to think that the "change" Obama advocated was "change we can believe in." A close look beyond the eloquent, inspiring, but vague speeches at the actual policies shows that he's headed the direction he said he would be. :(

[niceypoo]

5. Quit whining!!

Change is the new pony

[LWolf]

20. That it is.

I like my old ponies. They're getting harder and harder to feed.

[groundloop]

6. Your post would make more sense if it were "King Obama", unfortunately.....

Unfortunately we have a dysfunctional Senate to deal with. Look, I'm not happy with the health care law we got, but that was directly a result of Senate rules (and Joe Lie-berman along with his republicon friends). I'm not too thrilled with the new tax bill either, but again, when a minority of 42 senators can hold everything hostage then at some point you just have to take what you can get. Could President Obama have fought harder for these things? Probably, but I also wonder if he just saw the writing on the wall sooner than the rest of us. It sucks, but blaming President Obama for all of the senate's problems is incorrect.

[Bandit]

14. Some people are better than others at reading

What part of "the Administration and Congress" did you not understand? :shrug:

[mstinamotorcity]

15. They will continue to keyboard

their "hurt wittle feelings" as long as there are those who will listen. Most of their anger issues, are anger issues cause the right wing said they were. Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about expecting a strong Affordable Health Care Act Bill, and not getting a true single payer or public option, is a big disappointment. But no Health care bill would have been an even bigger disappointment. But let's examine that for a minute. If we had a majority House and Senate then what was the problem with a Strong bill getting to the President's Desk?????Matter of fact why wasn't all the Democratic Agenda passed??? Even though there are bills waiting for the Senate as we speak. Our Senate and House are corporation corrupted. They are under no obligation to us once they accept their corporate donation to their campaign war chest or their personal foundations,or award of Government contracts. And let's not forget whether they do anything, Congress gets to have a salary,Health care benefits,retirement packages,and walk away with their war chest. So if we are going to be angry maybe we should be angry at the people we elected to make sure our President of supposed CHANGE has it to sign into legislation.

[LWolf]

19. While the Senate certainly hasn't been a bastion of positive change,

they are not to blame for Obama's center-right, and more and more just plain right, positions.

[mmonk]

7. There is a reason for that.

[mimitabby]

9. I celebrated last week

when Bernie talked all day enumerating the wrongs of our current political climate. He practically made my year.
A lot of bad stuff is happening but there is good too.

[Schema Thing]

10. yesterday

for sane liberals.

[Javaman]

11. Details? nt

[bvar22]

16. YES!!!

The RICH bullies demanded ALL of our lunch...sandwich, chips, soda, pickle, cookies, and an apple.

The Democratic Party Leadership "compromised", and we got to keep the apple!
:woohoo:

[laughingliberal]

18. +1000 nt

[kentuck]

12. You weren't asking for much...

Just that the Bush policies be stopped and that the guilty be prosecuted. Sorry.

[Mira]

13. It's blustery and bone chilling in NC - yet it's still about 5 degrees warmer

than when I stood all day on the mall to see this President sworn in and frankly the farthest thing from my mind was that
2 years later I have to come to understand that my job has become holding his feet to the fire and
to find my old sign...
"I can't believe we are still protesting this crap"

yes, we have baby step accomplishments, and
no - we don't have direction altering, thorough, ground laying, explained to the people change that has come because we are understood.

That's how I see it today, and I'm sticking to it.

[Kablooie]

17. That changy hopey thing is everything that Palin said it was.