About once a week I read a story about how the Republicans managed to cut something out of the stimulus package (this week it's the pandemic flu preparedness) or stop a Democratic proposal to better our world. And yet when Bush was in office and the Republicans had control, the Democrats were unable to get anything stopped.
Are the Democrats weak? Incompetent? Corrupt? Merely the "corporate-lite" party? Too polite?
Maybe its time to make someone like Dennis Kucinich the Speaker of the House and Bernie Sanders the Senate Majority Leader.