Do Nothing Democrat Congress is getting Worried

The Democrats momentum is stalling according to this  piece from washingtonpost.com. I contend that since the election has been over they have never even got started, so there is no momentum to have stalled. They passed a number of domestic bills that have not gotten anywhere, they were then sidetracked with losing the war, while nothing they have passed has made it to the president’s desk to be signed.

From the article:

But now that initial progress has foundered as Washington policymakers have been consumed with the debate over the Iraq war. Not a single priority on the Democrats’ agenda has been enacted, and some in the party are growing nervous that the “do nothing” tag they slapped on Republicans last year could come back to haunt them.

Let’s not forget about the culture of corruption tag the Democrats stuck on the Republicans. They were able to convince the people that only Republican senators on congressmen were corrupt. And that they were all above that kind of behavior, now we know about Harry Reid, William Jefferson, Dianne Fienstein, and others.

“We cannot be a one-trick pony,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), who helped engineer his party’s takeover of Congress as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We need to do them all.”

There you have it, I believe the culture of corruption is what was the final undoing of the Republicans, not so much the other issues. If the American people voted for change in Iraq, how come congress’ approval rating hangs around 36%? It isn’t just because the far left doesn’t think the Democrats are moving fast enough on the war, it’s mainly because the majority of Americans want to win the war. One-trick pony? They are not even a one-trick pony, I haven’t seen them offer one solution to one problem. I guess they do have one trick though, wait until George Bush takes a side on an issue and then take the other side.

“This leadership, these Democrats have shown that they can fight,” he said. “Now they have to show they can govern.”

It’s a whole different ballgame when you can’t just sit on the sidelines and complain, now they have to do something about it. And they have no ideas.