activism

The furor over Barack Obama's switch (flip-flop?) on FISA should serve as an early warning to progressive activists everywhere, that our work will not be done once he gets elected to occupy the Whitehouse. For one thing, a look at the web page Progressive Punch shows that he only has an 88.05% lifetime progressive rating (below Hillary Clinton's 90.82%). This means that there will probably many more issues over which many of will want to take him to task (universal health care comes to mind).

I write this because I remember what happened back in '92 when Bill Clinton beat another Bush. When Clinton was elected after 12 years of Republican administration, it seemed that everyone relaxed and even went to sleep. The common thinking was that, with a Democratic President and both houses of Congress controlled by Democrats, life was good.