WOW!!!!! ! What a helluva Lameduck session!!!

[nmbluesky]

Repeal DADT, 9/11 health care, and START and more....

[styersc]

1. This is the damndest thing I've ever seen.

Seven weeks ago the Democratic Party was over. Today we've won fight after fight and just as we move into a year where the GOP will take the House, I feel more optimistic then I have since the third week in January, 2009.

[CakeGrrl]

6. I don't think the Democratic Party was about to be over;

The blogs and pundits were just convincing themselves it was, proving that those outside the process can only speculate.

[Whisp]

9. not quite ;) 7 weeks ago the Jane Hamshers were saying the Party was over.

big difference.

[justiceischeap]

2. I think we need to call this session something other than "Lameduck"

Maybe the "Fire under their ass" session 'cause they know much won't get done over the next 2 years.

[WI_DEM]

3. Well this congress didn't go out with a whimper--that is for sure.

[elizm]

11. It went out with a BANG instead of a whimper.

[tridim]

4. The real lame duck session starts after the new year.

I hope average people and the MSM bother to notice why.

[PearliePoo2]

5. +1

:thumbsup:

[ncteechur]

7. That would be the lame ass congress.

[RockaFowler]

15. +1

Love it :)

[immoderate]

8. Anything can pass as long as it doesn't help the economy.

--imm

[Jester Messiah]

10. Noticed that, did you?

Gives me an uneasy feeling as well. Great progress is being made on social issues, but I have to wonder how much of that is hand-waving to take the spotlight off of Powers that would rather pull strings in obscurity.

[avaistheone1]

13. A lot of what has been passed this session will bring the equivalent joy of NAFTA

to the American people when the party is over in a year.

Then people will realize that all that glistens isn't gold.

And short term "feel good" fixes do not solve long-term problems and often make them worse.

Oh and big oops! we have taken down the wall between Social Security and the General Fund - well then it's time to CHOP, CHOP, CHOP IT!

[TeamJordan23]

12. Just shows that people were voting for purely political reasons before the election. nm

[Milo_Bloom]

14. And to think.. it only cost us 1 trillion in ransom.

[tabatha]

16. I am SO glad that Harry Reid was re-elected.

Thanks to Hispanic brothers and sisters who helped him get there.

I hope this small taste of power of the ballot box has been motivating.

[DailyGrind51]

17. What if Dems had been like this for the past two years?

We would have a public option AND Employee Free Choice!

[Lugnut]

18. +100 n/t

[bigwillq]

19. It was indeed.

Good job all around. :thumbsup: