[Southack]

"It is, as I said, treading water....my mailbox keeps getting stuffed with the junk, and they, just like your pasting above, details what has been accomplished, not what will be accomplished. ... I don't think I'm asking for much here." - kingu

"Treading water" means that you've made no new accomplishments. I mention this because you clearly don't know what the phrase represents.

Passing tax cuts into law, killing Kyoto and the CCCP-U.S. ABM treaty, jailing Saddam Hussein, banning partial birth abortion, and deploying missile defenses (land, air, and sea-based) is not, by any stretch of the educated mind, somehow "treading water."

So yes, you are asking for too much. You are asking for things that can not be, or in denial of what has already been.

[kingu]

"Treading water" means that you've made no new accomplishments. I mention this because you clearly don't know what the phrase represents.

Ahh, man, I'm completely convinced now. Clearly these are all things that they're going to accomplish in the next two years and they're not treading water at all.