Democrats were swept into control of Congress in 2006 on promises of War Extraction
Success - While I wish it could have happen quicker, what did you want them to do... drop their guns and walk off the battlefield? (actually the United States is engaged in more military action in more countries than we were back then and the U.S. is sending troops back to Iraq, in addition the U.S. is backing millions to support the State Departments "army" still in Iraq) The troops we are sending to iraq is dwarfed by what was there. And while you are correct, we are involved in more conflicts, at least it is not the archaic, troops on the ground, invasion style but rather special forces/drone. All that said, this IS an area that the democrats and President Obama have not fulfilled their promise, however, if the republicans had their way we would invade iran, syria, russia, and still be fully deployed in iraq. (Not to mention my disappointment on the lack of any movement in closing Guantanamo)
Getting Big Oil/Energy Policy
Success-Not only encouraging increases in oil and gas production, but also increased invest in alternate energy. (Neither party can claim success on the former, and the latter . . . when the gov't has invested it has resulted in signifcant losses in taxpayer money too many times to mention at this juncture)I would beg to differ that the increases in alternative energy have been in vain due to limited failures. Solyndra's talking point on the right is grossly exaggerated and is just that, a talking point. Furthermore, it can be contended that our energy independence over the last decade is never more stable than now.
Deficit Reduction and Debt Reduction.
I'm a little confused on this one, but I don't vividly recall this being the party's national platform for the 2006 elections. Rather I believe it had to deal with more of the above two as well as getting us out of the crap storm that W had caused. (Then you need to improve your memory, in fact the so called "crap storm" has only worsened with Democratic control of Congress for the last 2 years of Bush, and the first 2 years of Obama, we're now going on 5 years WITHOUT a Federal Budget) Again, you are forgetting what the economic climate was when President Obama took office. Losing 800,000 jobs a month, an auto crisis, financial crisis, a housing crisis, two wars, and a obstructionist opposing party unwilling to compromise and determined to not let President Obama enact any real legislation that could make things better that he could take credit for.
