You can’t live with grizzly bears.
The headline on Drudge:
◼ Daley machine sends Obama a warning Washington Post
The real message? Dems have to pretend to be centrist/conservative if they want to get elected.
The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party — my lifelong political home — has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come….
On the one hand, centrist Democrats are being vilified by left-wing bloggers, pundits and partisan news outlets for not being sufficiently liberal, “true” Democrats. On the other, Republicans are pounding them for their association with a party that seems to be advancing an agenda far to the left of most voters….
Not to mention that many of those Democrats who managed to get elected did so by PRETENDING to be more rather than less CONSERVATIVE… only to show their true nature after the election. They could never have gotten elected on their own platform. Some won by appearing more Republican than the Republican in the race. Obama himself went to great lengths to appear moderate, when he is now shown to be anything but, and nowhere even in the same universe.
All that is required for the Democratic Party to recover its political footing is to acknowledge that the agenda of the party’s most liberal supporters has not won the support of a majority of Americans — and, based on that recognition, to steer a more moderate course on the key issues of the day, from health care to the economy to the environment to Afghanistan.
In other words, dupe the people one more time?
Oh well. Could be a good thing, if it means chucking Al Gore’s pet rock, stopping the wanton spending, and actually reading bills before pushing for votes – maybe even some real true working together and hashing out problems with aims towards really solving problems and not winning a partisan victory… too much to hope for. The activists are in charge, Mr. Daley, and the beast has broken his chains. Not gonna be your house pet any longer. Kinda like the guy who thought he could live with grizzlies.
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Posted by Rose on December 24, 2009 1:19 pm
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Elections, Fraud/misrepresentation, Government corruption, Government malfeasance/misfeasance, Government tyranny, House, News, Political chameleons, President, Republicans, Senate, liberalism
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