Key Setbacks Dim Luster of Democrats' Year

Source: Washington Post.

The first Democratic-led Congress in a dozen years limped out of Washington last night with a lengthy list of accomplishments, from the first increase in fuel-efficiency standards in a generation to the first minimum-wage hike in a decade.

But Democrats' failure to address the central issues that swept them to power left even the most partisan of them dissatisfied and Congress mired at a historic low in public esteem.

Handed control of Congress last year after making promises to end the war in Iraq, restore fiscal discipline in Washington and check President Bush's powers, Democrats instead closed the first session of the 110th Congress yesterday with House votes that sent Bush $70 billion in war funding, with no strings attached, and a $50 billion alternative-minimum-tax measure that shattered their pledge not to add to the federal budget deficit.

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On Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday: "Nobody is more disappointed with the fact that we couldn't change that than I am." But Pelosi was not about to accept Republican assertions that her first year as speaker has been unsuccessful, saying: "Almost everything we've done has been historic."

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in history for Congress; the kind of record that doesn't get YOU reelected.

HA! No arguments there! WORST - CONGRESS - EVER

from the USA

I'm from the US, I just live in England (if that's what you meant by, "from the USA")

Yes, that is what I meant. Now I have to commute somewhere.

lol

DLC types and the like played political games with these issues. After today, I see these "democrats" as complicit. They have forgotten that the "right of eminent domain" over government is We The People. They can push us pretty far, but when we've had enough, they will come face-to-face with the wrath they have stirred up. The sickness the republicans brought to our government has spread.

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