Not with assholes like Nelson, Lieberman, Landrieu and so on and so forth on your "side". We should have rammed through a slew of great legislation but we have a bunch of sellouts in "our" party as well.

That way it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, to not go and vote, because 'it's not worth it.' Then the delicious self-satisfaction can continue from those who wouldn't lower themselves to do the work. So they win and we all lose.

microphone that they weren't going to do anything that would make Obama look good but somehow Mr. Obama missed it. I don't know what else he could have done but to me he looked weak when he tried to work with them after they already said they wouldn't. We need to give him a second term with a Congress that will work with him - then he could move mountains, although I can't really see them going another 4 yrs without at least trying to do something. It won't matter if he looks good or not then.

last name. Even OBAMA refers to himself as OBAMA. Get a grip.

Then follow with brief explanation, and details about what they DID do as you've enumerated.

sick in bed much of the time and Al Franken not being seated, the super majority wasn't there too often when it was time to vote.

For example, they could have made important changes to tax rates, like making the tax cut permanent for everyone but the wealthy, raising the marginal rate for income over $1 million, raising the rate on capital gains, and implementing a transaction tax on financial trading.

All the above could have been done through a budget reconciliation bill, which can't be filibustered. They could have done these things with just 50 votes in the Senate.

...to the Party Line.

"Blue Dog" Democrats were just as obstinate as the Republicans.

If people think Joe LIEberman was going to go along with anything that Obama wanted, they're either being naive or willfully ignorant.

We were NEVER going to have a public option as long as the likes of Max Baucus, Claire McCaskill, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, and other "conservadems" had a voice.

Even many here on DU have a difficult time understanding this.

What we had was a loose coalition of progressives, center-leftists, and Blue Dog fuckwads who were too busy acting like Republicans.

The GOP refused to negotiate or oppose in good faith.