My Moment of Grudging Acknowledgment of the Democratic Majority

We wouldn't see the phasing out of the incandescent light bulb under a Republican Congress.

We wouldn't see a lot of interest in reversing the cruel injustice whereby the Pentagon was asking for bonuses back from wounded soldiers.

We wouldn't see strong oversight of incidents that shock the conscience, like what seems to be a culture of rape in Iraq inside KBR/Halliburton.

And we wouldn't see the overwhelming rejection of state secrecy in a Congressional bill to revamp and reform the Freedom of Information Act.

They've done a tactically poor job, they haven't held the Republicans accountable for their obstructionism, and their continued funding of the disaster in Iraq is a moral crime. But there is at least SOME difference between the parties.