At Least They're Working

Nobody knows what to do with Iraq...even the Democrats. They don't want to stay, they don't want to go, their hands are tied and there's only so much they can do to bring this administration back to earth.

Sure they're divided, I'm happy they're divided and following the Democratic leadership blindly (as the Republicans had done.) Anyway, Congress isn't doing anything, they're working;

"We have got to finish this bill," Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said as he opened the Senate session. He read parts of a letter from relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks asking the Senate to consider the legislation "without complications regarding Iraq."

Senator Reid is talking about the bill to implement the 9/11 recommendations and tighten homeland security rules. Quite frankly, with how important Iraq is, the Democrats are not going to bring the war to end two months after taking office. I'm kind of certain it is going to take much of their two year term and much of their political capital. They only enjoy a slim, fragile, majority in the Senate.

In the end, whether the Democrats are divided or not, whether the President can be forced to end this war, whether they can stop a troop surge or not, the point is, they're working. They're passing bills, they're raising the minimum wage, they're implementing the 9/11 Commission recommendations, they're voting to fund stem-cell research (even though the President will put the brakes on that.) They voting to end play-to-pay. They're working, which is more than the last Congress did.