Between Scylla and Charybdis

The loss of Ted Kennedy's senate seat to a republican was a wake-up call to progressive Americans that our long-awaited moment to address critical issues like health care, energy reform, education, infrastructure, banking reform, and the continuing demise of the middle-class, has been squandered by the inaction of the "No Nothing!" Republican and the "Know Nothing?" Democratic parties.

President Obama needs to take decisive action if his campaign promises, and the hopes of millions of caring Americans, are to become more than artfully-crafted rhetoric in the service of nothing but selfish ambition.