Letters to the Editor
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Armagednoutahere
I sometimes think it would be nice to have a Democratic congress as single-minded in it's action as the Rovian R's, but I'm not sure I want to see a Democratic party as focused as the current Republicans. ~ Armagednoutahere
I agree completely, and I think that this single-mindedness (along with hubris) will be their downfall. Their purism is appealing to fewer and fewer people, and their smears and insults now apply to a majority of Americans.
Dodd described the Democratic Party and frogs jumping out of a wheelbarrow, while the Republicans increasingly resemble mindlessly marching humanoid Lemmings.
Look at the hubris of Bill Kristol today. He sees the Democrats on the run and in retreat in every way. But his victories are pure propaganda victories that cannot withstand the reality of what is actually happening in Iraq. It’s all stagecraft, and more and more people are catching on. And even their propaganda victories (Beauchamp) are illusions that don’t apply outside the bubble.
I don’t expect to ever the Democrats to march in goose-stepping unison, but they can at least form a legislative strategy, and coordinate their actions a lot more than they do now.
There’s already a list of “Blue Dogs” in safe districts that need to be targeted in the primaries, and some of them will have to go. That’s a far cry from the Rovian purges that have radicalized and reduced the Republican Party to what it has become today, but it’s a necessary step.
What is also very important is for the Democrats to take on the corrupt MSM and reinforce what bloggers have been doing for some time. We need to have some of them openly challenge the questions that reflect GOP talking points. We need to see Tim Russert speechless as a Democrat aggressively takes him to task for something he’s said.
It’s going to be a long struggle, with no easy answers.
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