I am so sick of these craven cowardly quislings. They don’t even want to win. They are afraid of power, afraid to exercise it. They would rather sit on the sidelines, fondly imagining that they hold the moral high ground, blissfully deaf to the grassroots who are crying out for leadership, for a show of backbone.
Unfortunately the two-party system in the US is set in stone, so a third party has no chance. We’ll have to do what the RRR did. A fringe group of religious and corporatist extremist whackjobs hijacked what was once the Party of Lincoln, turning it into a sleaze and corruption machine. We have to hijack that Democratic Party, turning it from a corporate ass-kissers’ club into a party that genuinely represents ordinary working people.
As Gore Vidal said on Book TV on 4/29/06 —
He has heard the “death rattle” for a long time!
Kinda reminds me of the mayor of an Oregon coastal town where a dead grey washed up on the beach. The town’s best and brightest decided to dispose of the whale carcass by having a demolition expert pack it with explosives and set it off.
Brilliant!!
It scattered billions and billions of decomposing whale chunks all over town.I heard the stench was something else.
The stench in ’08 will be something else too….pity the poor bastard who wins that election.
Providing we survive two more years of this crap….
sssshhhhh, a bit of quiet here…..deep breath time….
The idea that belt-way Democrats might not want to win in ’06 touches off a lot of fears and frustrations among those who most care about Bush hijacking the country and an unchecked Bush being able to continue to head us over a cliff into unethical, unconstitutional, and fiscal hell. Listen, those who care so much includes, gasp, Republicans.
As I read the NYT article to which Digby refers, I could find no indication that our present beltway Democrats have taken such a position. The article refers to ex-senator Kerry and another Democrat [an aide] who opined about letting the Repugs stew in their own failed smelly juice-pot. From those statements, Adam N. built an article out of whole cloth [but certain to grab a headline, since it echoes the Repug-generated ‘weak-kneed Dem’ mantra.]
Yes, there are some wimpy Democrats whom we wish had stronger backbones [hello..Hillary]. But, let’s not let the wreckage that Bush has caused wear us down at a critical time, and make us jump with fright at the tinny sound of an unsourced pop-gun article like this one.
I personally know a lot of Republicans who want the Dems to regain at least one chamber of Congress….these are Republicans who are alarmed at the awful extent of what unchecked one-party rule has wrought. And they are embracing the need for a new balance and sanity…..they will either sit out the election, or they will [some for the first time in their lives] cross over and vote for a Democrat.
This NYT’s article upset the left, but also, I am betting that it left a sense of dread in a lot of Republicans. In that sense, I think this may be the one instance of spinning about weak-kneed Democrats that back-fires for the spinners. When Democrats begin their campaigning come Labor Day, there will be more and more concerned folks eager to hear their words and support them in making changes in the direction we take as a nation.
Jeezus.
Aitch.
CHRIST!!!
I am so sick of these craven cowardly quislings. They don’t even want to win. They are afraid of power, afraid to exercise it. They would rather sit on the sidelines, fondly imagining that they hold the moral high ground, blissfully deaf to the grassroots who are crying out for leadership, for a show of backbone.
Unfortunately the two-party system in the US is set in stone, so a third party has no chance. We’ll have to do what the RRR did. A fringe group of religious and corporatist extremist whackjobs hijacked what was once the Party of Lincoln, turning it into a sleaze and corruption machine. We have to hijack that Democratic Party, turning it from a corporate ass-kissers’ club into a party that genuinely represents ordinary working people.
As Gore Vidal said on Book TV on 4/29/06 —
He has heard the “death rattle” for a long time!
Kinda reminds me of the mayor of an Oregon coastal town where a dead grey washed up on the beach. The town’s best and brightest decided to dispose of the whale carcass by having a demolition expert pack it with explosives and set it off.
Brilliant!!
It scattered billions and billions of decomposing whale chunks all over town.I heard the stench was something else.
The stench in ’08 will be something else too….pity the poor bastard who wins that election.
Providing we survive two more years of this crap….
sssshhhhh, a bit of quiet here…..deep breath time….
The idea that belt-way Democrats might not want to win in ’06 touches off a lot of fears and frustrations among those who most care about Bush hijacking the country and an unchecked Bush being able to continue to head us over a cliff into unethical, unconstitutional, and fiscal hell. Listen, those who care so much includes, gasp, Republicans.
As I read the NYT article to which Digby refers, I could find no indication that our present beltway Democrats have taken such a position. The article refers to ex-senator Kerry and another Democrat [an aide] who opined about letting the Repugs stew in their own failed smelly juice-pot. From those statements, Adam N. built an article out of whole cloth [but certain to grab a headline, since it echoes the Repug-generated ‘weak-kneed Dem’ mantra.]
Yes, there are some wimpy Democrats whom we wish had stronger backbones [hello..Hillary]. But, let’s not let the wreckage that Bush has caused wear us down at a critical time, and make us jump with fright at the tinny sound of an unsourced pop-gun article like this one.
I personally know a lot of Republicans who want the Dems to regain at least one chamber of Congress….these are Republicans who are alarmed at the awful extent of what unchecked one-party rule has wrought. And they are embracing the need for a new balance and sanity…..they will either sit out the election, or they will [some for the first time in their lives] cross over and vote for a Democrat.
This NYT’s article upset the left, but also, I am betting that it left a sense of dread in a lot of Republicans. In that sense, I think this may be the one instance of spinning about weak-kneed Democrats that back-fires for the spinners. When Democrats begin their campaigning come Labor Day, there will be more and more concerned folks eager to hear their words and support them in making changes in the direction we take as a nation.
I hope you’re right Donna…