Dear Folks,
We are wise enough as Democrats to know our party and its reps are not perfect. We are getting a taste of this now in the latest Veterans Department scandal in which some of its places have falsified the number of Vets cared for. Because of our two latest wars and Vets returning we know Vet hospitals and clinics have been overwhelmed. We also know –and have for years—that Vet Care as such has been famous even among Europeans for the level of help, when a Vet is actually there.
However, as a party we have been pure compared to the Republicans. We have not only been more effective. We also have demonstrated more sheer character. There, I have said it: we have more character, because our major concern—not perfect but major—has been for the people and not the wealthy and powerful. Consider what has happened since Obama came to office. Rep Jay Rockefellow said this in Congress yesterday: “Our president is mostly opposed because of “his wrong color.” We simply look at the facts. This present Congress ---with the House under Republican control for the last two years and the two years preceding, when the Senate Republicans filibustered into the hundreds—has been the most ineffective in terms of bills passed in its entire history. Except for Obama Care and fiscal controls under Barney/Frank - and both seriously hampered because of Republican resistance - Obama and his team have been crushed in such vital issues as jobs and infrastructure, unemployment compensation, immigration, minimum wages, and food stamp - all programs which would feed our economy from the ground up: a trickle up, not a failed trickle down from the wealthy, who are the richest people in human history.
