Talking points from the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

This Holiday Season, progressives have a lot to be thankful for. Here’s a few of the many reasons we can be thankful:

We’re thankful for our country’s troops. We’re thankful America dumped the 109th Congress.

We’re thankful Rick Santorum will have more free time to find the WMDs.

We’re thankful we don’t have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense we had.

We’re thankful for “red state values,” like protecting reproductive rights, supporting stem cell research, and rejecting discrimination.

We’re thankful Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who calls climate change the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” will no longer chair the Senate environmental committee.

We’re thankful that Matt Drudge does not rule our world.

We’re thankful Al Gore helped the country face the inconvenient truth.

We’re thankful Bill O’Reilly? does not resort to name calling—well, besides labeling the Progress Report/ThinkProgress as “far left loons,” “kool-aid zombies,” “hired guns,” “vile,” “haters,” a “far left smear website,” and “a very well-oiled, effective character assassination machine.”

We’re thankful minimum wage ballot initiatives passed in six states. We’re thankful the Dixie Chicks aren’t ready to make nice.

We’re thankful Ted Haggard bought the meth, but never used it.

We’re thankful for the 100,000 readers who responded to our Tell the Truth About 9/11 campaign.

We’re thankful for “the Google” and “the email” (and the “series of tubes” that make them possible)—but not iPods, which are endangering our nation.

We’re thankful Maf54 isn’t online right now.

We’re thankful people send us Jack Abramoff’s email.

We’re thankful Keith Olbermann’s ratings are up and Bill O’Reilly’s? ratings are down.

We’re thankful President Bush’s secret plan for Iraq is safe with Conrad Burns.

We’re thankful we won’t spend Thanksgiving turkey hunting with Dick Cheney. We’re thankful the “Decider” only gets to make the decisions for 789 more days.

Daily Talking Points is a product of the American Progress Action Fund.

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