With all due respect to Glenn Greenwald: THIS is what the Democratic Party does. It's who they are:

1930s: - the Works Progress Administration, Social Security

1960s: - Medicare, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, War on Poverty, First African-American Supreme Court justice

1970s: - Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CAFE (minimum fuel efficiency) standards for autos, Department of Education, Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel

1990s: - Childrens Health Insurance Program, Restoration of democracy in Haiti, Dayton accords ending war in Yugoslavia

2009: - Lily Ledbetter Act (equal pay for women), restoration of embryonic stem cell research, abolition of torture by US government, Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act, creating between 1 and 2 million jobs (according to CBO), first Latino Supreme Court justice

2010: - Begun process to end Don't Ask Don't Tell, Comprehensive Health Care Reform?????????????

Frankly, I have had it with the endless attacks on Dems from the left. Yes, they can be weak and spineless. Yes, they too often speak like wonks without stating the moral imperatives of their positions (such as HCR). Yes, they can be too quick to compromise and too timid to move. So we need to push, prod, and help them - beginning TOMORROW (Feb. 24) with calls to insist on health care reform now. But let's not abandon them. Look at the good that's been done. Imagine the good still to be done. And imagine a return to power of an ever more right-wing Republican party.