What the hell is it with you people?
Do you folks really want our country to be back in the hands of the Republicans and the destructive American conservatism that dominates that party?
What individual have they brought to the national discourse that causes you to want to abet them in what they want to do to the United States…to our rights and privileges…to our moral compass…and to the rest of the world?
Was it Spiro Agnew? Ronald Reagan? Dan Quayle? Katherine Harris? George W. Bush? Dick Cheney? Jeb Bush? Sarah Palin? Is it the religious fanatics who dominate their so-called moral agenda and who consider us a Christian nation? Or perhaps it is the commentators on Fox News and conservative talk radio?
Who???
They call you a bunch of stupid, blind, simplistic-minded stargazers…but can you not conduct yourselves in a way that at least meets that humiliating standard?
You trash Obama and everything he does…and you do it at every opportunity. You argue to trash the Health Care Bill because it doesn’t meet your unreasonable expectations; you have issues with the way he is handling the closing of Guantanamo; you bicker with the way he is proceeding in dealing with two wars he inherited; and you savage him for the way he is handling the horrendous economic problems with which we are confronted.
Into what dark space have you crammed your heads?
Do you not see the inherent danger of your shortsightedness?
If you rallied behind this man and the efforts he is making…if you were willing to make the concessions he sees as necessary in the political environment in which we are operating…if you would only stop with “all or nothing” approach…you would be shaking the American conservative movement to its very foundations.
Wake the hell up!
Look at the mood of the country…and operate as though that has some effect on what can be done and the way it has to be done.
Wake the hell up!
Those of us who are disgusted with the American right have good reason for that disgust…they deserve all the scorn anyone can heap on them. But for you people to be manufacturing reasons for us to have contempt for your agenda…well, that goes beyond reason.
All said, of course, with a smile on my face and love in my heart for everyone here.
Wake the hell up!
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In Atler's book 100 days about the early FDR presidency, he quotes a conversation FDR had with some more progressive member of the media, saying (paraphrase) Yes, I agree with you. Now get out there and make me do that.
We dont make our politicians do what we need them to do by supporting them with our words and our votes, when they are being kept in office by mega-money corporate conglomerates.
So Frank, THIS is what's with us liberals and progressives. Short of Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, Dennis Kucinich and maybe 2 or 3 others, we dont really have any representation at the federal level. So we are looking for ways to magnify our voices. And if Obama, Emmanuel, Reid et al dont also fear the return of the Tom Delay crowd, then they lose their precious positions. Just like with cancer, sometimes some decent tissue has to be sacrificed to get at the stuff thats really gone bad.
I do not feel beholden to follow either side and would rather approach each issue independent of its tag or lable. The country has been in the hands of the same people for the last 60 years. Unless we as Americans are willing to vote outside the predetermined democrat and republican boxes there will be little or no change.
Leeds…I see a huge difference…but I will grant that both parties and both ideologies are prisoners of the money that comes from the people who have money to give. But that is how it always has been in our world.
Tim…keep doing what you think should be done. I think your side is gonna win…which means America loses. We’ll see. I;ve been wrong before.
Same comment to you, Stud. We’ll see where this all leads.
Okay…Mtodd…thank for the comments.
Oh, I'm sorry. Are we not there already? It's so hard to tell the prostitutes apart anymore; they all smell the same to me. Like money.
Quite frankly, I sometimes think we'd have be better off in the long run if McCain/Palin had been elected. As a Liberal I've half-seriously (and fleetingly) contemplated throwing my support behind the crazy neo-cons in the next election. Because maybe getting precisely what they *think* they want might be the only thing to wake up the lunatics sleepwalking at that end of the spectrum. Like a low-bottom drunk, they'll never open their eyes until everything's in ashes around them and they have nothing left to lose. That goes for the lunatics strung out on Hopium on this end of the spectrum, too.
It has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat. We all - Tea Baggers and Liberals alike - have a common enemy and that enemy is corporatism. Its stench permeates every branch of government. Electing Democrats is the equivalent of spraying Febreze: it masks the smell for a while, but doesn't actually solve the problem. At least with Republicans we might hit bottom a little harder and faster, and it looks like we can't (or won't) start rebuilding till we get there.