President Obama was elected on an agenda of change: "Yes We Can!"

Unfortunately President Obama's change agenda has run into a brick wall of "No We Can't," led by the entire Republican Party plus "BlueDog" conservative Democrats in the Senate and House.

If we want President Obama's change agenda to succeed, we must replace anti-change Republicans and Democrats in the 2010 election with pro-change candidates.

To succeed, we must unite the broad progressive movement behind a broad slate of pro-change candidates. We're calling this strategy: "Yes We Will!"

Below is a spreadsheet with the Senators and Representatives from every state. The first page contains the Issues we all care about: healthcare, jobs, wars, climate, etc. We'll score every politician (incumbent and challenger) on a scale of 1 (best) to 5 (worst) on each of those issues.

Recently Passed house health bill has no where to go in the Senate, It is DOA.

I guess I just have to admit it, the democratic senate is it's own worst enemy. The only bills we can hope to pass are bills the republicans want passed. I do not know why or how some democratic senators became a branch of the republican party, but they did. Between the media constantly cheer-leading the republican views and democratic senators afraid to do what they were sent there to do, we might as well just give up and turn it all over to the republicans. Hopefully when they have raped the land and pillaged the economy there will be some trickle down for the rest of us. Oh Hell, what am I talking about, nothing is going to be left. Period...

If we do not learn from our mistakes. We are doomed to repeat them. Again and again and again and again.  

The progressive democrats need to get together and start working to replace the blue dog and moderate democrats in congress.  We need to find candidates who will not take money from special interests.  If a candidate is able to produce a lot of television ads more than likely he or she is getting money from big business.  That cannot be our man or woman.  We have to find progressives who will work for us, not for corporations.  Is this a democracy or a corportocracy. This is war and until the progressives get together, work together, we are going to lose.  We can call, write until we are blue in the face, but many of those we contact will never do what we want because they are bought and paid for by big business.  I am tired of the lip service we get when someone runs for office.  They tell us what we want to hear, but then do their own thing when they are in Washington.  ENOUGH!!!  It is going to be up to us to change this country.

By Dave Lindorff

It would be easy to read too much into the few statewide races that
were decided last night, but I think it’s fair to say that the results
in New Jersey and Virginia, where Republican gubernatorial candidates
won--in New Jersey’s case knocking off a well-funded Democratic
incumbent--that the results were a blow to the Barack Obama/Rahm
Emanuel strategy of playing to the right, of avoiding confrontation in
Congress and of ignoring the progressive voters whose enthusiasm and
effort back in the 2008 campaign put Obama in office.

As imagined by Dave Lindorff

My Fellow Americans.

I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two mistakes really. (wild applause from Republican side)

I thought that Congress could do its job and through the
deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win
broad support across the aisle and among all of you. But I’m afraid
that I was wrong. Health care is an enormous industry—maybe the biggest
and most powerful industry in the country—and it has far too much power
in Washington. Literally thousands of lobbyists, carrying tens of
billions of dollars in campaign contributions—have invaded these halls (and my house!) (relieved laughter)
and distorted the process, and in the end have stymied reform. (some hissing)

Meanwhile, I have realized that the answer has been staring us in the face all along.

By Dave Lindorff

It is refreshing to hear the new head of the AFL-CIO, former
mineworker and Mineworkers President Richard Trumka, get mad at
sell-out Democrats and make a threat not to “support” them next year.

As Trumka pointed out in a talk to the Center for American Progress
this week, for years, Democratic politicians, and the Democrats as a
Party, have counted on the labor movement to get out the vote of its
membership on Election Day, only to turn on workers after getting to
Washington, on the issues that really matter, like jobs-killing free
trade agreements, the gutting of bankruptcy law and credit law
protections, and, most recently, the undermining of needed labor law
reform.

Trumka, quoting from a famous Florence Reece mineworkers song popularized by Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger, said that going
forward, Democrats will have to make it clear to labor “Which side are
you on?”

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By Dave Lindorff

The way I see it, President Obama has a couple of months to turn his failing administration around.

The war in Afghanistan is going south, and within a couple of weeks,
his General William Westmoreland, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, will be
coming to him asking for more troops. Things are getting hairier in
Iraq too.

His signature health care initiative is foundering, with Republicans working in lockstep to see to it that it fails.

Pressure is mounting for an honest probe into the criminality of the
prior administration in its authorization and promotion of torture
against captives--most of them innocent--in the Bush/Cheney "war" on
terror.

By Dave Lindorff

Bill Clinton was the worst thing to happen to the Democratic Party
and to progressives since that racist warmonger Woodrow Wilson won the
presidency and dragged the US into the utterly pointless and incredibly
bloody First World War.

Clinton, by posing as a progressive, confused and undermined, and
ultimately betrayed the liberal/progressive wing of the party,
shattering what was left of the New Deal coalition and leaving the
American left adrift and riven by the conflict between those who
thought the Democratic Party was the only viable vehicle for
progressive reform and those who thought it was hopelessly in the grip
of corporate interests.

Barack Obama offers the hope of bringing that era of debilitating confusion to an end.