It takes a lot to win and even more to lose

Slowly, steadily, I find myself asking: how could George W. Bush and the Republican Party cause so much lasting damage to our country and the world with only bare majorities in Congress, while Obama and Democrats now seem unable to rectify that damage despite have large majorities in both houses?

I know the answer, of course, as it goes by the name of the "Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, and Evan Bayh wing of the Democratic Party," but still, it's disturbing and no way for a nation that wants to survive the 21st Century to govern itself.