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After Jimmy Carter caved to the Republican noise machine and took back his blast at President Bush, it's no surprise the party wimped out on the war.
  • Fricking Funny

    Thanks Bill Maher, I needed that.

    How is it that most letter writers here and the few liberal pundits in our media are all sick of Dems wimping out, and surely the Dems are aware of this, if nothing else - perception, and yet continue to wimp out? If you've ever been in a discussion or internet exchange with a Republican and you stand your ground, invariably when they run out of excuses for one of their obscene viewpoints, they fall back on "Well, I thought you liberals were supposed to be oh-so-tolerant and you're not!" The number of times this has happened to me or that I've observed it happening to others indicates that there's really a dynamic going on between the parties that most of us have probably internalized.

    I'm too tired to give it any more thought at the moment, but suffice it to say that it's time to change the Dem Party self-perception to focus less on touchy-feelyness and more on a take-no-prisoners agenda for the working and middle classes. And then tell everyone across the aisle that their B.S. won't be tolerated anymore and that we'll be willing to learn to get along ... later.