Jan 20 2010

The People Vs The Party

Massachusetts isn’t about anything other than one thing….



People Want Change.

If the Dems won’t give it to them….they will look somewhere else.

And in a two party system there is only one place to look.

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Analyze, parse, spin, do whatever you want. It won’t change the number one rule of politics…..You can’t argue with the voters. The People still bat last.

“The Lesson of Massachusetts” is very, very, very simple

If you don’t deliver Change, The People will throw you out.

And the Dems are not delivering Change.

They are rearranging the deck chairs on the status quo.

And, Surprise!!!

The people KNOW the status quo is broken.

Broken… unless you are in power, and thus part of the status quo. In which case you can’t see that the status quo is broken because it seems to be working just fine! For you. Until The People throw you out.

Then you can run another campaign promising over and over that you will bring Hope and Change, you can tell The People just what they want to hear….and they will elect you. And then when you get in power and do exactly the opposite of what you promised them….they will throw you out again.

Until you figure it out.

The People want THE SYSTEM to change. Not the deck chairs.

And they don’t REALLY care which Party does it. Because people who have been thrown out of their jobs, homes and health care plans really don’t give a shit about Partys. Unlike the apparatchiks who will be all over the place today trying to blame everyone else….so they can keep their jobs, homes and health care.

So you can either Change The System or go home. Up to you.

But the one thing you can’t do….no matter how much corporate funding you have….is argue against the voter.

Because ultimately, this is still a democracy and the voters still get to decide who runs it for us.

And if you lie to us and tell us you will change The System and then DON’T…

It won’t be you.

Argue with that Rahm. Tell THAT to fuck off. And see where it gets you.

Oh wait….you just did.

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  1. .

    DODGE THIS

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  2. is more capitulation.  

  3. toast.

    is it is very unlikely that obama gets it.

    no. he. does. not. and. does. not. want. to. get. it.

    i feel more bamboozled than ever in my lifetime.

    if i feel that way, i cannot imagine what a political novice or someone who never really paid attention but woke up to obama feels.

    i am afraid to turn on the teevee.

    i am glued to satan and other on line sources in order to gauge the reactions of the best minds out here.

    i want to turn away and do my professional work and i cannot.

    • Edger on January 20, 2010 at 21:11
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    Don’t you know by now that everything will be just peachy if you’ll just cheer and clap louder?

    • TMC on January 20, 2010 at 21:16
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    The message from voters in MA was loud and clear… You aren’t doing what we elected you to do and what you are doing with HCR is worse that doing nothing.

    From TPM

    Here’s an interesting finding. A survey yesterday of pro-Obama voters in Massachusetts who didn’t support Democrat Martha Coakley (either they stayed home, or they voted Scott Brown) say their disenchantment has much to do with the fact that Democrats haven’t done enough to challenge Republican policies of the Bush years.

    A Research 2000 poll commissioned by Democracy for America, MoveOn, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee asked 500 Obama voters who supported Republican Scott Brown “Generally speaking do you think Barack Obama and Democrats in Washington, DC are delivering enough on the change Obama promised to bring to America during the campaign?”

    Overall, 49 percent of respondents said “no,” 37 percent said “yes,” with 14 percent unsure.

    If they had polled the folks who stayed home that 49% would be well over 50%.

  6. … at orange, from Matt Yglesias:

    What’s more, more than zero people who don’t like Obama anymore don’t like him because he hasn’t been leftwing enough.

    An objective setback is an objective setback. It can’t be spun away. But the good thing about the availability of these tracking polls is that if we want to know what people think about Barack Obama we can look it up very easily. We don’t need to draw inferences from how Creigh Deeds or Martha Coakley does, we can look it up. Something that I think congressional Democrats haven’t really grasped since November 2008 is the full implications of the fact that Obama polls radically better than either “Congress” or “Congressional Democrats.” They could cooperate, and try to bask a bit in his relative popularity. Or else they can do a lot of screwing around, pulling him into prolonged congressional negotiations and letting some of their unpopularity rub off on him.

    I don’t have a clue as to what that first sentence means.

    But if Yglesias thinks that Congressional Democrats should be “basking” in Obama’s popularity, I think he is nuts.

    Where has Obama done anything but enable the Congress to be acting exactly the way it has?

    Shudder.  There’s so much wrong about this post … not the least of which is saying this “can’t be spun away,” while spinning like a demented top.

  7. You can talk about it as if it were about policies, about change, about health care and bank reform and the like, but imo it’s far more basic.  It’s about emotions and the present emotions are (i) fear and (ii) anger in that order.  The anger is what’s getting expressed, and it’s being expressed because of the fear.  Fear of loss of home.  Fear of loss of job.  Fear of loss of retirement funds.  Fear of loss of savings.  Fear of loss of life in wars.  If the government– I don’t care what party it is– doesn’t produce comfort and relief from this fear, there will be explosive anger, and whoever it is, from whatever party, gets to go home.  Nobody who is afraid really cares at all what party the legislators are in.  If they were in office when this disaster hit and they didn’t do something about it that was tangible, something that we can experience as relieving fear, they are toast.  They go home.

    It’s really basic.  If you don’t deliver comfort from fear, you lose.  Nobody in the electorate wants to hear any more  bullshit about it.

  8. if there was ever a ripe moment for SOMETHING, Id say this be it. For the folks who are into that sort of thing. 😉

    I think its a sound concept but it could use some good framing and will need a lot of push. Im a sportsphobe so I actually had to look up the expression FCP

    A full-court press is a basketball term that refers to a defensive style in which the defense applies man-to-man or zone defense to pressure the offensive team the entire length of the court before and after the inbound pass. Some presses attempt to deny the initial inbounds pass and trap ball handlers either in the backcourt or at midcourt. Defenses not employing a full-court press generally allow the offensive team to get halfway down the court (a half-court press) or near the basket before applying strong defensive pressure. While most presses are used by athletic teams to speed up the game, some teams use it as a way to contain teams and slow the game down.

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    Mix in a little jujitsu and voila. lol

  9. Was there an Independent candidate on the ballot?

    The press seems to be making a case for this being a referendum on Obama policies (and it may well be). By that extension then the ’06 & ’08 elections were a referendum on Bush and Republican policies, correct?

    Is Mass. so disgusted with BO that they are willing to go back to the Corporate governance of only a few years ago? Is that really sending the message of change?

    So I ask … was there a 3rd party candidate?

  10. …. the President and the Senate today.  Wait for the new TeaBag Senator from Massachusetts to be seated before continuing with the health insurance giveaway bill’s completion.

    I’m almost speechless.

    We have been betrayed.

    • Big Tex on January 20, 2010 at 23:06
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    The Dems have a list of talking points that will totally fix this mess.  That’s the change you were talking about, right?

    /snark

  12. weeks back when I’m bitching bout the Big Zer0, to which I respond …

    What the f’k does that mean???

    “the system worked for him,

    why change it?”

    oh … ummmm … the wife shoots and scores!

    rmm.

  13. I turned off the TV and switched the alarm clock to buzz istead of NPR.  Got up looked up what the library had on Buddhism and rode the bicycle up US 9 to Toms River.  

    I found an interesting title that I thought apropos of my mood and dilema of late:  Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chodron.  The preface looked really good when it talked about war from the personal (road rage) all the way up to war (bang bang shoot shoot) and hardening of the heart.  

    I dont want to hate these folks, I want to believe they are just misinformed, mistaken, blinded etc.  I dont want to think that anyone should die a misserable horrible death.  

    Oh well, I’ve got a long way to go and they don’t make it easy.  

  14. I dared to make a modest proposal to make the site more progressive, and got slammed for it.

     I’m so f*cking disgusted with those people right now.

  15. Guns

    Ammo

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