• George W. Bush is NOT the President of the United States.
• Barack Obama IS the President of the United States.
• The Health Care Bill is the law of the land. My 20-year-old niece, Kate, who was diagnosed with diabetes when she was 16 months old, can stay on her parents’ plan until she is 26 years old, and by then, cannot be denied coverage because of her “pre-existing” condition.
• DADT has been REPEALED.
• Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• The Lilly Ledbetter Act was signed into law.
• Chris Christie spent New Jersey’s snowmageddon in Florida. Governing? Not so much.
• Sarah Palin is disappearing. Or disrefudiating. Or something.
• WE have Meteor Blades. No one else does.
• The IGTNT diarists. There is no other such memorial anywhere in the United States.
• DKos activism: for the environment, for animals, for peace . . . there is no place else where this is done so well, with so much conviction or with such beautiful prose.
• Cheers & Jeers Yeah, like you could get your day started without it. Seriously.
• The Daily Kos community. If I started writing the screen-names here of all the great community members I love, respect, have written to, have made my life better – it would be 2012 before I ended. Thank you, all.
Happy New Year, my friends! I am so lucky to be a part of this amazing community .