Congress Has GOT To Do Something

In the first 100 hours, the House of Representatives passed bills enacting the 9/11 commission recommendations, raising the minimum wage, funding stem cell research and reforming lobbyist/politician relationships.

Since January, none of these has made it to the President's desk. They all have been choked in the nearly equally divided Senate and Iraq has since taken the attention away from the Democratic agenda.

It's not even that the President has vetoed everything, he hasn't even gotten the chance to sign or veto everything.

Democrats ran on the concept that the Republican congress did nothing except the few things the President wanted. That "do nothing" label is part of the reason why the Republicans lost their majority (Iraq being the most prominent reason.)

The Democrats have GOT to do something and soon before the people give up on them too. Now is the time to win over the American people and send the Republicans into a generation-long minority status.

They can do it, they just got to either take the focus off Iraq for a little while or just work a little bit harder. They need to have something to show for the people next year when they're campaigning again.