One more reminder of what a Democratic Congress and Obama can accomplish
Since flat-earther revisionism seems to be striking DU again. This is simply a highlight reel of the legislation passed by the 111th Congress:
Lilly Ledbetter
SCHIP expansion (covering an additional 10 million children and pregnant women)
ARRA (the stimulus)
The last budget Congress has passed (it's a shame that I can point to Congress actually executing its Constitutional duty as a subject of praise, but such are the times we live in)
The Americorps expansion
A land management act that closed tens of millions of acres of public land to hunting, logging, and trapping
FERA, the act under which bank and investment frauds are being prosecuted at the greatest rate since Teddy Roosevelt's administration
HFSHA (what lets judges write down predatory mortgages rather than foreclosing)
A Pentagon acquisitions reform act that has already saved close to a billion dollars
The Matthew Shepherd Act, which expanded hate crimes laws to include targeting sexual orientation and gender presentation
Cash for Clunkers and the Big 3 bailout
ACA
VA and Tricare reform
Pay-as-you-go (which the GOP promptly gutted in 2011)
Dodd-Frank
Two unemployment extensions
9/11 responders relief
Iraq local employees emergency visas
The fair sentencing act
START (nuclear arms reduction and nonproliferation)
The confirmations of Kagan and Sotomayor
The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Earmark elimination (I'm starting to think that was a bad idea, but still)
The first ever floor vote on DC voting rights (it failed, but that was the first time we actually got a vote)
You can whine about Obama and the blue dogs and the "third way" and the "corporatists" or whatever all you want, but when our party was in charge, this is what we delivered.
When politicians do that, and politically-aware people mysteriously forget that ever happened, it kind of goes a long way to explain why progressives have problems getting elected.
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