Dems key work this year:

Begin the end of Afghanistan & Iraq occupations.
Finish healthcare reform.
Economy stabilized.
bonus: Nobel Peace prize.
Budget for the future.
Stimulus to build a lot of public stuff.
Ledbetter bill for equal pay.
SCHIP spending.
Work toward peace in Middle East.
Gradual work on regulating financial industry.
Begin Green Revolution.

Not bad for one year, but it was slow-going because Health reform was a bear.

What’s next?

More Energy stuff. We have to stay with that a long time.
Much more Financial sector reform.
The Middle East — ’nuff said.
Lots of legal stuff: closing Gitmo, trials, Telecom spying, etc.
Starting the health insurance PO and watching the effects of the reform.
Union Cardcheck ???
Universal savings accts.
Tax system reform (probably late next year).
More Environmental stuff, GMOs, Pacific Ocean plastics, dead spots… for ex.
California……….hmmm California
Which reminds me of mortgages. How far out into the future is that going to be there?

California is a very difficult problem I haven’t a clue about. I suspect nobody really does, except to say a Constitutional convention isn’t appealing and yet their Republicans probably won’t let Constitutional reform happen any other way.

Maybe if our Supreme Court had some rather big changes we could get a court which would enable the fed gov’t to intercede to ‘fix’ CA. But, that’s a bit of a stretch.

If Brown wins gov, then it will be easier to do some things, but still there are terrible limits on any gov. And, we need CA to go go go to push the economy instead of drag it down. Perhaps we could end some fed mandates which cost many states revenue.

Internationally it’s probably trade relations which will become the focus, with consensus on accounting standards and other financial regulation schemes, ‘basket of currencies’ and ‘non-dollar oil trading’ being part of that discussion.

It’s had to put any one thing to bed and say you’ve ‘solved’ it. But, there are a few and however well Dems succeed there will be progress and a moving on to other challenges (of which there are plenty).

As always, lots of questions and not a lot of answers.

It’s worth a try.

BWAAAHAHAHAA!!

Ahem.

Bad girl.

Not that that’s a bad thing.

Arghhhh – g’night.

one to go:

Gram & Emmylou:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LtJ7AKUrc

If the world was a righteous place, those two would have grown old together.

Nighters, all.

and handcuffs. Sympathy only gets you so far around here.