An Impressive Legislative Record
By joepgoldman | February 1st, 2010 Comments Off | Leave a CommentNorman Ornstein from the conservative think tank AEI published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday that argues that the current Democratic Congress is one of the most productive in history.
“This Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president — and that includes Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson. The deep dysfunction of our politics may have produced public disdain, but it has also delivered record accomplishment.”
Among the accomplishments were the stimulus bill that helped prevent another depression, an expansion of children’s health insurance, oversight of the TARP funds, a law to allow the FDA to regulate tobacco, the largest land conservation bill in two decades, a credit card holders’ bill of rights, and defense appropriation reform.
He writes that significant losses for Democrats in the 2010 elections could end this productivity:
“If the midterm elections in November turn out to be more like 1994, when Democrats got hammered, than 1982, when Republicans suffered a less costly blow, the GOP will probably be emboldened to double down on its opposition to everything, trying to bring the Obama presidency to its knees on the way to 2012. That would mean real gridlock in the face of a serious crisis. Given the precarious coalitions in our otherwise dysfunctional politics, we could go quickly from one of the most productive Congresses in our lifetimes to the most obstructionist.”
Let’s get out there and make sure that doesn’t happen!
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