Should Democrats just hang it up?

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Tuesday December 08, 2009 · 8:50 PM PST

2009/12/08 · 20:50

It seems that the these last two times that Democrats won the White House, the party pretty much fell apart not long after. Example, in 1992, Bill Clinton came in with a strong majority at every level, including a 56-44 majority in the Senate, a 258-176 majority in the House, and big majorities in state legislatures and governorships. Two years later, the party was pretty much non-existant. Republicans controlled everything and often by significant margins. Things stayed that way for 12 long years until 2006.

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 7:56 PM PST

2009/12/07 · 19:56

It has been a few weeks now since the Senate voted to start debate on healthcare reform. My question now is, how long is it going to take for the Senate to finally pass it? This was supposed to be done by Labor day, then Thanksgiving, and now Christmas. People are now saying that the Senate likely wont even have a vote by Christmas. My question is, when will it be done? Where is the next goalpost? President's Day? Easter? Memorial Day? 4th of July? Labor Day? 2030?

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Wednesday December 02, 2009 · 11:11 PM PST

2009/12/02 · 23:11

When Democrats decided that they were going to work to help Obama win the 2008 election, many things were expected. We expected him to actually work hard to improve the economy. So far, he is only passed a watered down, useless stimulus plan and has done almost nothing else. We expected him to use his leadership and a 60 seat Democratic majority to pass healthcare reform. He has been almost absent on that front as well.

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Monday November 30, 2009 · 8:40 PM PST

2009/11/30 · 20:40

I have expected for a month or so now that Obama would escalate forces in Afghanistan. Even though it was expected, I am still very unhappy about it. We supposedly dont even have the money for healthcare reform or to fix our economy, yet they are planning on more troops. We have had enough of this and it should be stopped.

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Saturday November 28, 2009 · 8:01 PM PST

2009/11/28 · 20:01

I have come to the conclusion that the only way to get any kind of healthcare reform passed at any time in our lifetimes is to simply support a triggered public option. We cannot have a robust public option that starts without giving insurance companies a chance to cover more people. I dont like this, but it is the reality. Insurance companies are simply too powerful not to be given a chance.

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Monday November 23, 2009 · 10:45 PM PST

2009/11/23 · 22:45

I am just appalled at the way this President has operated ever since July. Absolutely appalled. I trace it back to late July when he first allowed Congress to go home for break without passing a bill. He simply said that it was "OK" that Harry Reid said that he would give Republicans "time to look over the bill" when he might as well have said that he would give them time to kill the bill.

Would LBJ, FDR, or Harry Truman ever allow this? I am almost certain they would not have. They would have told Harry Reid that he and Congress are staying in session and passing a bill and that is that. Hell, Harry Truman forced the Republican Congress to stay in session in 1948 to pass his legislation and although it didnt work, people respected him for it and he got reelected. THAT is the kind of leadership that we need in the White House.

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Saturday November 21, 2009 · 9:33 PM PST

2009/11/21 · 21:33

Senator Blanche Lincoln did the right thing today by supporting the cloture vote to begin debate on the healthcare reform bill. I know she is worried about her reelection and is trying to look "conservative" for the voters in Arkansas in 2010. Trying to look conservative by blocking the key Democratic initiative for the next year or so is not going to do Lincoln or any other Democrat a lick of good. Republicans are going to vote against her anyway and do so in droves. Its the Democratic base in the state that Lincoln needs to turn out to have even a sliver of a shot at reelection.

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Tuesday November 17, 2009 · 10:37 PM PST

2009/11/17 · 22:37

I assume that the answer to this question is almost certainly yes, but I figured that this would be a pretty good topic to post a diary on. We elected a Democratic President so we could finally get the healthcare reform that we have been unable to get done since the early 1900's. We have waited patiently and have been told to wait our turn for decades and now we are being asked to wait longer.

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Sunday November 15, 2009 · 9:36 PM PST

2009/11/15 · 21:36

I am really beginning to think that our party's time in the majority in Congress is beginning to come to a close. We have had a three very frustrating years of division and shattered hopes for change. After reading this diary(http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/15/804748/-The-Untold-Reason-Why-Unemployment-Wont-G o-Down-Before-the-2010-Midterms) I have become very, very depressed.

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Saturday November 14, 2009 · 11:27 PM PST

2009/11/14 · 23:27

There has been some disturbing talk around here that maybe we should just give up on healthcare reform because of the Stupak amendment. Doing that would be a horrible, horrible idea. The Republicans are doing every single thing that they can to kill reform by exploiting Democratic divisions on these wedge issues in order to give themselves a huge win on this by killing this President's signature agenda item and leaving him a wounded and beat up man for the rest of his Presidency who will not get a single item of his agenda through Congress.

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