Pity the poor conservatives

I was mulling over the huge legislative legacy of the late Sen. Teddy Kennedy (Immigration Act of 1965, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1967, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Low Income Heating Energy Assistance Program in 1970, The Cancer Act in 1971, Title IX, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act and the Crime Act, all in 1994, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Children's Health Insurance Program, the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act, the Pediatric Graduate Medical Education Act, both in 1999, etc, etc, etc. Hat tip to Vikkitikkitavi for reminding me of all the great stuff Kennedy did.) and over all the other things that liberals and progressives have done for working and poor people (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Workman's Comp. laws, work place safety rules, 40 hour work week, paid vacations, collective bargaining, etc, etc, etc.).

So we on the left side of the political spectrum have much to be proud of and that's one hell of a base to work off of as we try to get single payer not for profit universal health care for all in the USA and as we work to reign in big business and bring sanity back to the market place.

Then I got to thinking, what do conservatives have to be proud of? What accomplishments do they have to write about on their blogs? The denial health care to their fellow citizens? Being on the wrong side of yet another civil rights fight in the gay marriage issue? Do they clap their hands with glee when taxes on the rich are cut once again, even though most of them will never see one of those tax cuts? Are they proud of the hundreds of thousands dead Iraqi's? Are they proud of the torture and lies of the Bush/Cheney administration?

Fox Noise and talk radio may constantly trash liberals and progressives but year after year, time after time, we're the ones who have helped the most people, while the conservatives have helped only the wealthy.