Happy 2011!

And here are some of the policy issues we should pay attention to in the new year (drumroll?):

• repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell (done, but yet to be implemented...long overdue)
• attempted repeal of healthcare reform (want to know what's in it? Go to http://healthreform.kff.org/) 
• breastfeeding friendly workplace legislation being phased in (some good news--for more go to feed://www.whitehouse.gov/feed/blog/cwg) -- thanks to healthcare reform law
• attempt to privatize and otherwise whittle away at entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security
• Immigration Reform (http://www.asianjournal.com/dateline-usa/15-dateline-usa/8584-immigration-reform-needed-for-economic-growth-bloomberg.html; http://www.newsmax.com/US/DREAM-immigrationreform-CenterforImmigrationStudies-ACLU/2010/12/30/id/381465)
• attempted investigations of everything and everyone under the sun (to keep us good and distracted)

Why am I telling you this? I recall that the nation voted in a mostly new cast of characters who are talking a lot about compromise, bipartisanship, and working together for the good of the American people. I recall a lot of concern about the national debt. Someone will have to make sure these clowns remember their "mandate." If we don't do it, we'll only have ourselves to blame when all we get is a lot of theatrics and no results.

“Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.”  ~Jerry Garcia