Sunday, January 15, 2006
Thought for the Day
Warning! Overly pessimistic.
Or, dare I say? more likely just realistic.
We're going to lose in November.
The other guys, they get out off their asses and go out and vote. They understand and appreciate the seriousness of it. If we did, W wouldn't be your president right now. It is just that simple.
And for those wavering centrists, what do we offer? What do we have to entice them to get off their asses and vote for our guys?
Nothing. Just that we're not the wingnuts.
For example, look at this from the Times:
But this whole right/left thing doesn't fly. It's overly simplistic and fails to get the point across.
Explain how W's illegal spying involves spying on us. Period. Let them explain how it doesn't 'cause they haven't yet.
Explain what we're losing thanks to W's tax cuts for his true supporters, not that tax cuts for the wealthy are unfair. So W gave us some crumbs. And thereby exacerbated the problem.
Have a 24/7 War Room. Administration lies, come forward with the proof now.
And so on and so forth.
And we need our Contract with America. We were a fractured party when we consisted of racist Southerners and liberals -- couldn't last forever and didn't. Well, we lost the rednecks -- and replaced them with the DLC.
Who needs them? They just dilute the message. They have nothing to offer other than to encourage pols to give in to the Republicans and rake in the lobbyists $$.
The Dems have a single weapon in the Senate: The filibuster.
We not only refused to use -- and should be using it with Alito -- but we wussed out when the nuts threatened to take it away.
These guys are absolutely ruthless; there is no reason, no benefit in accommodating them.
As I've said before, I'm not from the give 'em enough to hang themselves school -- but this is or well can be the exception.
The nuts get rid of the filibuster, we should and could scream "One Party State" so loud Big Media will have to acknowledge it.
And some day, maybe we'll run the Senate without any filibuster rule to get in our way.
Or, dare I say? more likely just realistic.
We're going to lose in November.
The other guys, they get out off their asses and go out and vote. They understand and appreciate the seriousness of it. If we did, W wouldn't be your president right now. It is just that simple.
And for those wavering centrists, what do we offer? What do we have to entice them to get off their asses and vote for our guys?
Nothing. Just that we're not the wingnuts.
For example, look at this from the Times:
January 15, 2006
Glum Democrats Can't See Halting Bush on Courts By ADAM NAGOURNEY, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and NEIL A. LEWIS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 - Disheartened by the administration's success with the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Democratic leaders say that President Bush is putting an enduring conservative ideological imprint on the nation's judiciary, and that they see little hope of holding off the tide without winning back control of the Senate or the White House.
In interviews, Democrats said the lesson of the Alito hearings was that this White House could put on the bench almost any qualified candidate, even one whom Democrats consider to be ideologically out of step with the country.
That conclusion amounts to a repudiation of a central part of a strategy Senate Democrats settled on years ago in a private retreat where they discussed how to fight a Bush White House effort to recast the judiciary: to argue against otherwise qualified candidates by saying they would take the courts too far to the right.
The article goes on; I can't.
But this whole right/left thing doesn't fly. It's overly simplistic and fails to get the point across.
Explain how W's illegal spying involves spying on us. Period. Let them explain how it doesn't 'cause they haven't yet.
Explain what we're losing thanks to W's tax cuts for his true supporters, not that tax cuts for the wealthy are unfair. So W gave us some crumbs. And thereby exacerbated the problem.
Have a 24/7 War Room. Administration lies, come forward with the proof now.
And so on and so forth.
And we need our Contract with America. We were a fractured party when we consisted of racist Southerners and liberals -- couldn't last forever and didn't. Well, we lost the rednecks -- and replaced them with the DLC.
Who needs them? They just dilute the message. They have nothing to offer other than to encourage pols to give in to the Republicans and rake in the lobbyists $$.
The Dems have a single weapon in the Senate: The filibuster.
We not only refused to use -- and should be using it with Alito -- but we wussed out when the nuts threatened to take it away.
These guys are absolutely ruthless; there is no reason, no benefit in accommodating them.
As I've said before, I'm not from the give 'em enough to hang themselves school -- but this is or well can be the exception.
The nuts get rid of the filibuster, we should and could scream "One Party State" so loud Big Media will have to acknowledge it.
And some day, maybe we'll run the Senate without any filibuster rule to get in our way.
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