To put it another way, we won big in 2008. But that doesn't mean it's over. The problem the Democrats and the Liberal base has bumped into is that there has been a period in the last 12 months where things got soft and simple-minded. The GOP loss in 2008 has made them crazy. But they're in the mode of thinking - let's throw any crap against the wall and see what sticks ie. incubator / start - up mode.
We're in Hubris mode. I know it's the 3rd rail of Senate politics, but why Harry Reid ? Why oh why? Where's our new lion of the Senate? And, where has Biden been?
Wasn't he supposed to help our causes in the Senate??
The battle wasn't won in November 2008. It was just begun!
I don't know.... Things are much, much better than they were under GW Cheney. But things seem so messy and strange. The GOP seems to continue to control the headlines with their wack jobs. Palin, Steele, Hannity, Limbaugh. They get more air time than we seem to.
The Obama volunteers are around, working diligently, but they're not being heard. The media loves a controversy or a spectacle. We don't know how to generate controversy very well, but we were generating spectacle after spectacle, Obama bake sale, after Obama bake sale 15 months ago, fighting as though our lives depended on it.
Where is that fire in the belly. ???
Pass HCR
Pass Cap & Trade
Pass legislation to overturn the recent campaign finance USSC ruling
Pass a jobs bill
End the Bush tax cuts for the very wealthy
Get out of Iraq
Pass a schools / education bill
Negotiate peace accords with the Palestinians and the Israelis
These are our causes.
Focus focus focus !