The Heterosapien

Squashed: 2010 in Politics

Great 2010-wrap up

squashed:

2010 in Politics

The Good

• Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repealed
• Extended unemployment benefits secured for another 14 months
• Payroll tax holiday creates a (somewhat) more progressive tax structure
• Financial Reform
• NEW START Ratified
• Benefits extended to same-sex partners of federal employees
• Fair Sentencing Act increases the threshhold of felony possession of crack cocaine to prevent the racially disparate effect the prior law had
• Childhood Obesity Act
• Deepwater drilling moratorium
• Healthcare Reform
• Elena Kagen confirmed
• 9/11 First Responders Act
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created
• Food safety bill passed

The Not-So-Good

• Upper bracket tax cuts extended
• The 2010 election
• Dream Act failed to pass
• No movement on Cap and Trade
• Guantanamo: Still not closed
• Excessively polarized politics
• The Death of the public option
• The Democrats lost the House of Representatives
• The Middle East Peace Process seems doomed to (once again) fizzle

Significant Stuff that’s hard to categorize

• BP Oil spill could have been a whole lot worse and will, apparently, be paid for in full by BP
• Iraq War is sort-of-but-not-really over
• The Afghanistan War is sort-of-but-not-necessarily going better
• The Democrats retained the Senate
• WikiLeaks leaked
• A trade deal with South Korea

Wishlist for 2011 (so long as we’re dreaming)

• Tax reform
• Immigration Reform
• Climate change legislation

What have I left out?

Posted 2 years ago — 33 notes