One trick pony

Remeber the "ambitious" first 100 hour agenda that was set by then incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi? Well it looks like they have fallen well short of their plans.

"In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts all passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.
But now that initial progress has foundered as Washington policymakers have been consumed with the debate over the Iraq war. Not a single priority on the Democrats' agenda has been enacted, and some in the party are growing nervous that the "do nothing" tag they slapped on Republicans last year could come back to haunt them."

Progress has foundered because of their single minded obsession for one issue...Iraq.

"We cannot be a one-trick pony," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), who helped engineer his party's takeover of Congress as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We need to do them all."

Well, I hate to break it to you Congressman Emanuel - but your party will remain nothing but a one trick pony so long as you are let the net roots run the show!

Of course, as long as they do continue to let the net roots run the show, it should make things a lot easier for Republicans in 2008.