After last year's election, it was pretty easy to write off the Democratic Party. Despite the closeness of the 2000 elections, the party failed to win the Presidency and lost seats in both Houses of Congress. Yet, there is reason for hope...
Unexpectedly, Capitol Hill Democrats Stand Firm
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 25, 2005; Page A01
Democrats were supposed to enter the 109th Congress meek and cowed, demoralized by November's election losses and ready to cut deals with Republicans who threatened further campaigns against "obstructionists." But House and Senate Democrats have turned that conventional wisdom on its head.
They have stymied President Bush's Social Security plan and held fast against judicial nominees they consider unqualified. To protest a GOP rule change, they have kept the House ethics committee from meeting. And they have slowed -- and possibly derailed -- Bush's nomination of John R. Bolton to become ambassador to the United Nations.
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Monday, April 25, 2005
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