The Dem Agenda Has Stalled

Even the Washington Post has to admit that the new Dem congress has gotten very little done and their agenda appears to have stalled:

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. ...

The "Six for '06" policy agenda on which Democrats campaigned last year was supposed to consist of low-hanging fruit, plucked and put in the basket to allow Congress to move on to tougher targets. House Democrats took just 10 days to pass a minimum-wage increase, a bill to implement most of the homeland security recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, a measure allowing federal funding for stem cell research, another to cut student-loan rates, a bill allowing the federal government to negotiate drug prices under Medicare, and a rollback of tax breaks for oil and gas companies to finance alternative-energy research.

The Senate struck out on its own, with a broad overhaul of the rules on lobbying Congress.

Not one of those bills has been signed into law.

As far as I'm concerned, a "do-nothing Congress" is better than a "do-a-lot Congress". The fewer bills passed the less of my money I can expect to have confiscated in the future.

However, it's obvious that the Dem obsession on Iraq has total sidetracked anything else they planned to do, and now that they're about to cave on the Iraq funding bill, they'll be further plagued by the wacky anti-war left that has been driving their agenda to date.