Its still better than the Republican hate, fear, and anger mongering. All the Democrats have done is pile on the debt. What the Republicans have done is far worse.

Yes the Democrats have control so they have NO EXCUSES
BUT- It is also their hind ends if they screw things up. HELL hath seen NO fury like Constituets Scorned.

finally some one intelligent!!!! hooray!!

I think now is a good time for the Democratic party to take a really hard look at itself and figure out what its message and base is. And give rise to bright, innovative thinkers to make sure it is relevant to Americans with real problems.

Sound like a parody of Republican soul-searching? Kind of, but it's a serious message. I think the Democrats should be doing what the Republicans are doing now, rather than wait for the pendulum to swing.

Because what I am seeing of Democratic behavior, I am not liking. Having to pass a gun bill in order to give consumers credit card protection? Or even worse, their complicity for allowing Bush and Company to pass many odious laws – how many democrats voted for the Clean Water Act amendment that added the word 'navigable' to waterways?

I think there needs to be an attempt to rebuild integrity in both parties, and I do not believe that is possible with a very high incumbancy rate. Then, it should not matter who is filibuster-proof.

Some how I think the definition of what a liberal is and what democrats do is upside down. I don't really think there are that many real liberals out there any more. Maybe Dennis Kucinich. All of them are just a whiter shade of beyond the pale.

We are turning to the independent candidates (rarely covered by the media) We the people must turn to other means to create the " REAL" change for America. What does that tell you?

I'd go way, way long on the stock of Blue Dog Dems. They're the big kingmakers right now.

The Democrat "rainbow" is a frayed patchwork of grievance politics. Witness the overwhelming support of CA blacks for Prop 8 as evidence of fault lines to come.

When power goes too far in any direction it is never a good thing. I am not at all excited about the Liberal agenda fully playing itself out. I truly believe it will be a catastrophy.

At least Democrats aren't waving the WAR flag at every little thing, and talk about debt – let's look at the debt that Bush left with the war and the mess for Obama to clean up.

I don't care what party is taking care of the white house. People need to take care of our little country. Take stock, take names. I'm on a tangent.

Speaking of the all time famous "dems" and Repubs what is all that? I'm so Independent. We need some new names.

I support organized labor.I don`t care about the gay rights movement,forign policy,or a woman`s right to choose.Unless it means good paying jobs FOR AMERICANS.Everything else is a distraction.

Remember we got a SMART PERSIDENT this time.

I would like to remind everyone in North America that GM killed the electric car. We would not be in this mess if the auto industry and all the old school money had allowed fair and useful products for all the consumers to buy. Why not have an electric car to communite in?
Thousands of people would love to go to work cheaply and have more money to use to make their lives better in other ways. Not everyone dreams of a fast car. Some of us like to see the sun shine and enjoy this beautiful planet we live on, I would like to enjoy my one time around thank you. I am tired of being punished for someone else's greed. 25 miles to the gallon is so old. 4 cylinder cars have been getting this for over 20 years. The hybrids are a joke. Just look at what was out there in the 80's. Are the general public really this stupid and ignorant to what the car companies are trying to sell us.

You guys are right about spending money. This administration has spent more money than all the presidents from George Washington up to and including George Bush. Not just one of these presidents, all of them together.

Does this finally mean things will be President Obama's fault or will the left still say, "well this is what we inherited"? Just when will it start to be "his" fault? The scary part is there's no more checks and balances.

Why is it okay to spend this amount of money? Why is it okay to sign Bills without reading them first? Why is it okay to sign Bills because it is your time to spend money? It may be your time to spend money, but PLEASE read what is being signed.

Do you really want to give the Government that kind of POWER over all of us, just because it is your turn to spend money? Forget the party lines, please read what Power and Control the Government is getiing with these new bills that are being passed.

Cheap shots, as usual. The world and the nation are much more complex than this.

SMART PERSIDENT? And people say I need a spell checker:)

FDR used to, acording to his biographers, throw a lot of different programs out there to see how they worked on a project or issue. FDR's philosophy was that if you do that you find out what works and why and do more of it and the ones that don't work you shut down. You may have more to shut down than you care to but at least you are showing you are trying and that you are willing to try lots of different scenarios to fix the problem. If Congress would do this and not howl about the programs that don't work but just quietly shut them down, then they can at least show that they are trying. Waiting for that perfect bill and doing business as usual isn't enough now – people mandated change in their elections this last year – this would be a change – seeing the Congress actually working.

The democrats finally can do something and that is clean up the last eight years of greed and deficits...if the republicans don't scare the heebeegeebee's out of everyone as they have done in the past. Smaller government, would be for them to go back to their states and tell the people we don't care about your health care you pay for it...we get ours free and guess what we got everyone to see it our way! People listen to what your leaders are saying!

"I don’t really think there are that many real liberals out there any more"
I don't know. We have the biggest spending and perhaps the biggest tax increase since Herbert Hoover. That's not exactly conservative

"let’s look at the debt that Bush left with the war and the mess for Obama to clean up." And Obama doubled the deficit in about 3 months with the recovery act and the $410,000,000,000 (I think I got enough zeros) omnibus bill. That means that he's spending at about 32 times the rate of the last 8 years, which were bad enough.

"I would like to remind everyone in North America that GM killed the electric car. " I think it's because not enough people would buy them. I also know 2 people who are Ford engineers, one currently working and one retired, and they both say that unless you can generate electricity cleanly, electric cars will pollute about the same as regular cars.

Of course, with all the wind and nuclear technology, the probably would pollute a little less than a normal car.

"At least Democrats aren’t waving the WAR flag at every little thing"

That's right, they're giving Hugo Chavez photo-ops, letting North Korea detonate WMD's, maybe even near Hawai, and then they've decided that for some reason now's the time to disarm.

Of course, they might want to declare war to reinstate the president of the Honduras who, if I got this correct, was ousted by their supreme court.

Not a big fan of Politics.

Okay, let's get back to the article here.

Thank you for posting this litmus test so to speak. The millions who put Obama and his friends in office will likely develop other reasons for Obama-cares failure, as well as all other Socialism experiments that Obama and friends are trying to implement. They will conveniently forget that Al Franken is now in the Senate as well as the majority being led by Dems for now. I for one am very tired of the President's constant reminder of the problems he has inherited. It is time for him to pull up his boot straps and with his manliness, lead this country. Stop complaining that the problems were there before he came into office. That is a fact for ANY president.