This illustrates more the inadequacies of Congress and how it operates more than any shortcomings of the Democratic Party. The problem is that the Democratic "majority" is being overplayed. They barely have a so-called "majority" in the Senate...just enough to make it official. And to illustrate this is, they were able to pass their legislation in the House, but much of it died in the Senate with the Republicans blocking it or blocking debate.

Ah, that pesky filibuster; I'm sure the Republicans are glad now they didn't go through with abolishing it like they threatened when they were in the majority.

And the legislation that did pass both the House and the Senate, like the minimum wage bill for example, are becalmed because they're in the middle of debate on whether to amend them before they go to the President's desk; or others are bound to get vetoed by Bush like the Stem Cell bill or the War Resolution that sets a time table.

Its slow and unproductive. Its how the framers constructed it. But even so, I'm still surprised at how much the Democrats were able to get done when compared to the last Congress, the so-called "do-nothing Congress". But, as you can see with this thread: that's not saying much.