Oops, They've Done it Again!

I'm really, really sad I wasn't able to get anyone to take my bet last November.  It was a bet on how long it would take the Democrats to shoot themselves in both feet.   Not one foot, two.  I said one year after the inauguration, 365 days.  I would have won, hands down.

I'm going to site only a couple of things and in no particular order:

• The race to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.  It should have been a no-brainer.  Well, the Democrats left their brains and any common sense they might own at home and have handed the seat to a very scary Republican.  Was everyone on vacation?  Did no-one notice what was happening?
• On top of that, the blame game started before the polls closed, loudly and publicly.  What are they thinking???  Oops, I forgot, brains and good sense left at home.
• The health care reform bill - where does one start?  For the first time in, oh, many years, the Democrats had the golden triangle - White House, super majority in the Senate and a huge majority in the House.  One might think they'd get something done that would do the people of this country some good, right?  Nope.  Screw the people out here that are getting sicker, getting more broke, getting dead.  They bickered and whined and played "mine is bigger than everyone else's" games, frittering away the opportunity to DO SOMETHING.  Brains and sense no-where in sight.
• The Democrats stand by and let attack after attack by the GOP go by without response, or coherent reponse.  They try to shut down anyone in their party that is willing and able to stand up for the truth and say it.
• Finance reform - not happening yet and probably never will.  And, the news that Dodd wants to dismantle the CPA is downright scary.
• Mortgage relief - Let's give a whole bunch of money to big banks and not ask for any accounting.  I don't care if TARP was put in by Bush or not.  Change the rules or get the money back or shut them down.  Make sure the banks do what they were supposed to do with the money, not pay huge bounses or buy other banks.

Should I add their souls are MIA, too?

• Pollution - stop calling it global warming if you don't think people believe it.  The big businesses on the right are going to campaign like crazy the global warming isn't real.  Instead, call it POLLUTION.  It's pollution that makes the children sick.  It's pollution that contaminates drinking water.  It's pollution that makes the air so thick and toxic that we cough and wheeze and have "Spare the Air" days that force the old and kids with asthma stay indoors.  It's pollution that makes our food crops inedible.  It's pollution that gives fish mercury levels so hight that eating it will sicken us and our kids. 

The Democrats don't seem to be able to find their way out of a wet paper bag with a map, GPS and a box cutter.  They just don't seem to know what to do when they have the power to do something.   They don't seem to be able to remember that they've done this before.  Oops...

Bloody idiots.