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The Dems must learn to do a better job of explaining/selling the progress or lack thereof of legislation. The Republicans have done a superior job of this since Reagan, and Newt advanced the sound bite as an effective tool.
I am not troubled that the Senate cannot easily move legislation forward as it was intended to be the more deliberative body. A bill must be acceptable to the majority of the body and the President to pass into law. That these have until recently been held by a single party is the best argument I know of that we must have at least a two-party system effecting new legislation.
Partisan voting in my mind is simply a reflection of a party's ideology. Generally speaking, conservatives would not support corporate taxation to fund alternative fuel research and therefore "obstruct" a bill of that kind. Dems must sell this bill to the majority of the American people or wait for the possibility of a Democratic President in '08, who agrees with the legislation.
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"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." Molly Ivins - 1944-2007
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