Follow this link to the story in the Marine Corps Times about how Republican Senator Coburn places holds on several veteran’s benefits bills. Follow this link to sign VoteVets.org’s petition to Sen. Coburn.

For those who think President’s Obama’s efforts to get things through the Congress is just a walk in the park, remember this story next time you are tempted to complain about lack of progress.

I have made statements before about how Lyndon Johnson would never have tolerated such obstructionism.  I then think back to how campaign finance laws have been changed over the years.  The control that the Democratic Party has over its Senators and Representatives is much less now than it was in Johnson’s years.  That is why even a 60 vote majority is not enough to give Reid the power to stop such shenanigans.

I would hate to think that American style Democracy cannot work without such dictatorial powers wielded by a few of our leaders.

The proof must come from continued pressure from the electorate in making calls to members of Congress demanding action.  Whining about President Obama’s failures just won’t cut it anymore.

Even to me, my call to stop whining about Obama sounds a little like the usual Right Wingnut’s complaint.  How can you complain about Bush condoning torture, when the terrorists are so inhumane?  My answer is that I have some say in what my President does, but other than sending an army to Afghanistan, I don’t have much control over what the terrorists do.

In this case, I have as much say in what Congress does as I do about what President Obama does.  So my call to focus our energy where it will do the most good is justified in this case as opposed to such supposed calls in the case of torture.

Follow this link to the report in the Christian Science Monitor.

I know that most of the readers of this blog wouldn’t have too much trouble believing that Fool’s News lies.

However, living out here in the hinterlands of Massachusetts, I have been asked by people I socialize with, “what  Fool’s News has ever lied about?”  Never believing that I would ever be asked such a question, I had not been saving up any evidence.  I have now decided that I had better collect the evidence.

Just don’t ask me to actually watch Fool’s News to gather the evidence. I am afraid my brain would start to rot.  I see plenty of evidence of such rot in people who do admit to watching it.

Follow this link to the story of how the GOP tried to hold up the extension of unemployment benefits.  Fortunately there ended up being 97 Senators who could see how wrong it was to hold up benefits for political reasons.  Occasionally even Republicans can be convinced to stop fighting Obama.

Watch the video as President Obama thanks his supporters for their continuing efforts.

I have been telling people that President Obama has always said that his election was not the goal, it was only the beginning of our journey to the goal. In this video, President Obama confirms what I have been trying to tell people.

For those erstwhile supporters who are ready to abandon the President just as he is getting started, I ask you to contemplate the 300,000 phone calls he mentioned in the video. Continuing to work toward the goal is the opposite of abandoning the journey just as we get started.