Top Ten Reasons to Be Thankful In 2005

Teri Mills is a longtime Democracy For America community member. Her guest column on health care appears on Blog for America on Fridays and she blogs at nationalnurse.blogspot.com.

10. The Blog for America community because even if we don’t always agree with each other, we keep coming back.

9. In one month it will be 2006, time for voters to redeem the past election and elect a Democratic House and Senate.

8. The American Red Cross and all the agencies and individuals who are working to help the survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

7. George Bush’s approval ratings which are slipping lower than an SUV's mpg rating.

6. Six United States senators who stood up against an abysmal extension of the Patriot Act.

5. California voters who just said NO to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

4. Democracy for America A-List candidates and all those who ran for office this past year. Win or lose, we appreciate your efforts.

3. Americans who are finally waking up to the reality of being misled into an unjust war.

2. Our brave young men and women fighting abroad who we all want to come home as soon as possible.

1. Howard and Jim Dean, our favorite brothers, who work tirelessly every day for democracy.

—Teri Mills, RN, MS, ANP
Democracy for Oregon

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