The Stakeholder
What’s Your Top Priority?
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff sent the following message to DCCC Supporters:
Dear Friend,
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The indelible image of all those new Democratic Members being sworn in would not have happened without you. Now that the new Congress is underway, they want to hear from you.
A few weeks ago, Chairman Van Hollen asked for your ideas on what the top priority should be for the new Congress. Your response was overwhelming with thousands of suggestions. Now we need you to vote from the list of the top ideas submitted so we can share your top pick with Speaker Pelosi and the House Democratic Leadership.
Vote for your top priority so we can share it with Speaker Pelosi and the House Democratic Leadership – then get everyone you know to vote too.
Once you've voted, make sure to get your friends and family to do the same.
Thanks to you, the new Congress is now in place and in just two more weeks, President-elect Obama will make history when he officially becomes our 44th President.
Change has happened because of you. Thanks for standing with us every step of the way.
Brian Wolff
Executive Director, DCCC
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Change has not happened yet. We voted a democratic majority in in congress in 2006 and they wasted 2 years, essentially doing nothing, whining that they do not have enough of a majority to do anything. So, electing Obama is not the change we want and need per se. Change will or will not come based on the policies and priorities that the Obama administration will pursue. So far his appointments are encouraging, but that is just the beginning of the process of change. Aside of the immediate need to turn around the economic recession, providing affordable universal health care should be the highest priority. Taking a state run system option off the table, as Mr. Obama seems to want to do, is irresponsible, given that most of the developed world has been successfully using a state run system for many years. If for some reason it is deemed that a state run system is “socialist” (what is wrong with that word, by the way?) or “unAmerican”, then a private system needs to be created with very strong central government oversight, run in a very professional and ethical way, strictly in the interest of the people and not in the interest of private insurance companies. As this kind of oversight proved elusive to impossible in the last 20+ years probably a government run run non-profit system would be a much better choice.
Bush had his Iraq fiasco. Let us hope that Obama does not create a millstone around his neck with Afghanistan.
Bring the troops home now.