One of the things that drives us most crazy about our fellow Democrats is that we never stop to celebrate our accomplishments. Particularly the ones that benefit the country and the American people, and which the Republicans fought against tooth and nail.
Take the auto bailout: "A road we should not go down," bleated Senator Richard Shelby, unironically. Said former GOP Senator Jon Kyl: "Just giving them $25 billion doesn’t change anything. It just puts off for six months or so the day of reckoning."
Wrong again, Republicans. Here's what's actually happened, post-bailout: The industry was saved, and 17.5 million cars and trucks were sold last year — the most since 2000.
Hmmmm! The Obama Administration should have paraded victorious US automakers past the White House, with the President and Vice President waving to them from the North Lawn. But did they? No.
Then there's this morning's jobs report. Experts expected the economy to add about 215,000 jobs in December, but we gained 292,000 instead — the fifth year that's seen 2+ million jobs added annually. Gee! Who's been President this last half-decade?
But did we see Obama and Biden toddle over to the Council of Economic Advisers for some cork-popping and a well-deserved photo op? Nope.
Ugh, this makes us nuts. We advise the current occupants of the White House to start celebrating, tout de suite, and the future occupant of same to make sure her campaign speeches are chock-full of rah-rah-sis-boom-bah. In the meantime, we cats PURR.
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