Dec 15 2009
Anger is flying at Mach 1,000 and everybody who isn’t a member of the Democratic leadership wants to punish the Democrats for their endless betrayals, broken promises, lies, and capitulations. Well, I seem to remember someone posting ideas for how we can do something more than just bitch and complain.
https://www.docudharma.com/diar…
Just thought I’d remind you so we can start holding discussions for how we can implement these ideas.
Dec 09 2009
How many times over the last 9 years have we had these moments?
They’re exactly the same, every time, whether they’re about the destruction of Habeus Corpus, funding the wars, whatever. Seriously, you could just plug in a different issue each time, the response is always the same. “Congress sold us out! Harry Reid needs to lose his seat! I can’t believe Pelosi did that! Obama lied!”
Every time the Dems sell us out and we scream and yell and say “they lost me”.
And what do we do about it?
Anybody start any new parties yet?
No? Why not?
The two parties we have don’t represent us. They’re two reflections of the same ruling “real” party.
If we want some actual representation, we have to provide it ourselves.
New parties. New people. New everything.
Americans think they can just delegate everything. They think they can “consume” politics the same way they “consume” other corporate products.
“Well, I buy Budweiser. Therefore I am served by Budweiser. I vote with my pocketbook for Budweiser, and that’s what I get, because that’s what I like.”
Doesn’t work that way in politics. You have to get out there and create shit. You can’t order your political house out of the Sears catalog any more. You have to start from scratch, find the plot of land, cut down the trees, chop up the boards, forge our own nails, whatever.
Dec 09 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Did Bush/Cheney face accountability for war crimes and lying us into Iraq?
Did Democrats attack Conservative ideology as totally failed after the roaring 90’s for the rich and Great Depression 2.0 for the rest of us in 2008?
No. Democrats would rather “look forward”, which is a Carlinesque term for Cover Up.
No. Instead Democrats wanted to use those failed ideas themselves to build bipartisan support for FAILED ideas that have bankrupted America and our middle and working class.
Apparently, elections DO NOT MATTER, because we are getting ANOTHER unpopular war and we are NOT getting a popular program like the Public Option, and all because Corporations have overthrown our democracy. They didn’t need bullets, dollars did the job better than bullets ever could.
To be blunt, Democrats are losing on purpose, and I have had enough of the spineless wusses who want to play pattycake with the lunatics who kick them in the balls. If you aren’t fighting back you are THROWING THE FIGHT, and that goes for EVERY DEM, top to bottom.
More ranting and truth below the fold . . .
Dec 05 2009
What’s that, you say?
When playing the game of checkers, surrendering one piece to set up a subsequent double or triple jump may be well worth the sacrifice, remembering that losing a battle sometimes sets the stage for winning the war.
The Republicans had to be cognizant that the party that “won” the Oval Office in 2009-2013 would be holding onto the equivalent of a sack filled with animal droppings and an activated hand grenade. They may well have calculated that no matter which party occupied the White House during the current term, there was a significant likelihood that the opposing party would prevail in 2012, and perhaps more importantly, the party controlling the Executive Branch in 2012 could be well-positioned to retain that power for quite some time to follow.
Nov 29 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Dear misinformed Conservatives, we are sorry that you have been lied to by the Corporate Media. We are sorry that the scare tactics work on you every single time, we’re sorry that you don’t know anything about American history or even recent events. We are sorry that you can’t help but stare at the National Enquirer while on the line at the grocery store, but you’re not going to hold the line up anymore. The world won’t let you.
Dear Conservative Americans, we are sorry that you can’t see through Sarah Palin’s bullshit. We’re sorry you didn’t figure out that this country is fucked until after George W. Bush left office. We are sorry that you live in a fantasy alternate reality of someone else’s making, and we are inviting you out and into a better place, because stupid is not allowed to hold back the whole class anymore.
More below the fold.
Nov 22 2009
cross posted from Daily Kos
Reading KingOneEye’s piece on Glenn Beck and the corresponding news piece, it dawned on me that history may be repeating itself.
Nov 09 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
I’d like to share with you all this comment that was placed in my diary yesterday by Dkos User lascaux, as I think it sums up what we as Progressive activists and the Democrtaic base MUST accomplish in order to effect REAL CHANGE we can believe in.
What I learnedWhat this reform fight has taught me:
it is not enough to elect a progressive president, we need to elect liberals and progressives in congress as well.
The frustrating inability of this Democratically controlled Congress is PROOF that our job did NOT END when Obama won the Presidential election in 2008. In fact, our work has just begun, and we must face it with the same dedication, intensity and enthusiasm that we did in 2008, or we WILL lose, because we simply don’t have the money to compete with the special interests that control our Government.
But we DO have the people, and they can’t beat that.
So, here’s how we should FIGHT BACK.
Nov 03 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Of all the screwed up things the Republican party and their Corporate Media enablers have done maybe the worst is the souring of the debate on whether President Obama is doing the right thing or not. When the “faithful” opposition in American politics is more concerned with ACORN and socialism than it is with Corproate malfeasance or the corrupt status quo, it just isn’t worth debating with, but that debate is necessary and our system does worse without it.
Similarly, the left has been conditioned by the raving right to interpret ALL criticism of President Obama as an attack on him. Many on the left see activists who criticize Obama as if they were joining in on the hyperbole, and they fear that Obama, and Democratic majorities, might fall if pressure from the left and the right becomes overheated. These people are often the loudest defenders of Obama, but are they really helping his cause?
I firmly believe that we MUST, as activists and voters, be able to hold President Obama and the Democratic party accountable, otherwise they will walk all over us. In order to do this, we MUST be able to constructivly criticize our leaders, and since the right wing of American politics long ago left the reality based world, it is the left which must provide this criticism. The problem is, will others on the left allow it to happen?
More below the fold.
Nov 02 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
Demand purity? “But that’s crazy talk!” you say.
Of course it is! I’m not talking about purity for the Democrats, you sillies. I’m talking about purity for the Republican party.
I demand MORE of it! MORE Republican purity is the BEST thing the Democratic party and the progressive movement could possibly hope for.
There is NO possibility of recalling The Wing-nuts-
You see, there is no such thing as liberal purity. Put 100 random liberals in a room and you will have 100 different views of how the world should be.
Conservatives, on the other hand . . . .
More below the fold
Oct 21 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
“A Democrat with Guts, people think of it like a mythological creature, like a Unicorn.”~snip~
“Bipartisanship is a Weapon of Mass Distraction.”
~ Rep. Alan Grayson
A Democrat with GUTS deserves an electorate that will FIGHT for him. That is how we will encourage more Dems to grow guts and learn how to fight.
A short transcript and more below the fold.
Oct 14 2009
Crossposted at Daily Kos
A few months ago our fellow blogger at DKos KingOneEye (or NewsCorpse as he is known at Docudharma) wrote a diary titled FOX NEWS is Killing the Republican Party which posited that the far right media and their meat puppets like Beck, O’Reilly and Hannity, along with Rush and other assorted assknuckles, were pushing a shrinking party into a purity purge that they can not win elections with.
Well, now we need wait no longer. That massive implosion of knuckle dragging wingnut vs Republican moderate wingnut enabler has gone critical mass. Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
Transcript and more below the fold