That's Why We Elected Democrats

Posted this on DailyKos about five minutes ago:

By now, I shouldn't have to tell anyone on this fine progressive blog that President Obama's stimulus package passed the House without a single Republican vote. That's a shame for House Republicans.

Yet, their decision to oppose this legislation just affirms what many of us know already and backs up what the American people voted for in the last two elections. You see, Americans from every corner of this country voted for Democrats on every level of their ballots. They voted this way because they know that Republicans will always choose politics over the American people and that is unacceptable.

We should carry no delusions that this vote had anything to do with lack of infrastructure spending, or birth control grants, or whatever else Fox Noise and it's band of merry distorters pushed throughout the media. This was politics plain and simple.

Yet, even with the Republicans relatively impressive show of conservative solidarity, the bill passed.

There's a reason for that. This bill, like some before and many after it, passed solely on the backs of Congressional Democrats -- it passed like that, because the American people voted like that.

Congressional Republicans would do well to remember that.