Congressional Democrats scale back ambitions

The Democrat Majority in Congress, which has reached historic lows in job approval, has seen its liberal agenda rejected by the American people.  The Los Angeles Times outlines the scaled back Democrat agenda for 2008.

Congressional Democrats scale back ambitions

…[C]ongressional Democrats are eyeing their second year in the majority with much-  diminished expectations.

Gone are the grandiose promises of legislation to bring the troops home from Iraq, which dominated the Democratic agenda last year and nearly ground business on Capitol Hill to a halt.

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We have the presidential election. We have a number of very important House and Senate races,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said last week. “Our time is really squeezed.”

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