Suggestion To Democratic Lawmakers Who Quixotically Seek Harmony With Their Republican Counterpart
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This link contains one of the best collection of relevant thoughts about today's unfortunate political situation that I have read. There is, however, one point the author makes with which I couldn't disagree more: Among his short list of "American Heroes," he includes Malcolm X. Just what persuaded him to include this purveyor of venom and hate in the same category with people like Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King is beyond my comprehension.
However, notwithstanding this colossal exception, the remainder of the author's points are magnificently incisive, particularly his full frontal assault on the wishy washiness of today's Democrats and their pathetically foolish attempts to achieve "bipartisanship" in the current atmosphere. Are you listening, Mr.President?
IMHO, the best line of the entire article (directed at Democratic legislators who fecklessly seek to engage in "harmony" with their Republican counterparts) is the one I chose for the title of this post. Here's the rest, penned by Mr. John Cory at Reader Supported News:
"I am angry.
I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of 'birthers' and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.
I'm going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship' one more time.
It was 'bipartisanship" that gave us this activist conservative Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.
'Bipartisanship' gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and "free speech zones" and "no fly" lists. God bless bipartisan America.
I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation than it should take 60% of the popular vote to get you elected.
When some Tea Party crank says, 'I want my country back,' I respond, 'No madam, you want your country backward.'
When a deficit-mongering politician says, "How do we pay for this?" Why not ask, "What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?"
When a compassionate conservative says, "Health care reform is socialism," why not answer, "No, sir it is the moral and American way to care for people."
Yes, I can hear it now: "You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone."
Bite me.
The only thing you get with "harmony" is a Barbershop Quartet.
Democrats stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair, get a message, get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.
G-O-P = Greed Over People.
Greed Kills - jobs, people and the economy.
Terrorism is cheap viagra for Republicans: The more fear - the more excited they get.
When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?
Don't act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?
You're losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You're losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don't talk to them any more than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don't talk with me. And you don't inspire and you don't champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.
You are facing a bully. Deal with it!
Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.
Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.
Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.
For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantel of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?
Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers - only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.
DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.
Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.
Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and health care because life is a preexisting condition and the 'free market' should not have to take on such a high risk - after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.
Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off health care but should put its hands inside a woman's body.
Republicans believe in small government - small enough to hold the "right" people and small enough to be owned and operated by the "right" people. And who are the "right" people? Them. Not you.
Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym - I have only one question for you: Really?
You can't win against these guys? You can't get your message out against these guys? You can't give America leadership against these guys?
Really?"
Finally, here are a few memorable aphorisms that were included, along with some of the author's choices of "American Heroes" -
American Heroes
Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown, Joe Hill, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Leonard Peltier, Margaret Sanger
Quote
It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde
More Heroes
Susan B. Anthony, Morris Dees, Sojourner Truth
Quote
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck
Still More Heroes
Sam Houston, Lenny Bruce, Clarence Darrow
Quote
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
Molly Ivins
Even More Heroes
Martin Luther King, Woody Guthrie, Roger Williams
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. Steven Weinberg
Ted McLaughlin
Job didn't seem to have much use for his anger, but this old hippie certainly does!
Freedom From Religion
It's too bad the Bible doesn't teach better morals, since some people actually try and derive their morality from it. --Daniel Florien
The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism
I don't follow the word of the Bible which condemns homosexuality, the eating of shellfish,and the mixing of fibers in a fabric while condoning hebephilia, genocide, and slavery. I'm simply thunderstruck that such a book could be used as a moral absolute for anyone. --Kylyssa Shay"
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2010/03/listen-up-democrats.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Flhav+%28jobsanger%29
This link contains one of the best collection of relevant thoughts about today's unfortunate political situation that I have read. There is, however, one point the author makes with which I couldn't disagree more: Among his short list of "American Heroes," he includes Malcolm X. Just what persuaded him to include this purveyor of venom and hate in the same category with people like Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King is beyond my comprehension.
However, notwithstanding this colossal exception, the remainder of the author's points are magnificently incisive, particularly his full frontal assault on the wishy washiness of today's Democrats and their pathetically foolish attempts to achieve "bipartisanship" in the current atmosphere. Are you listening, Mr.President?
IMHO, the best line of the entire article (directed at Democratic legislators who fecklessly seek to engage in "harmony" with their Republican counterparts) is the one I chose for the title of this post. Here's the rest, penned by Mr. John Cory at Reader Supported News:
"I am angry.
I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of 'birthers' and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.
I'm going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship' one more time.
It was 'bipartisanship" that gave us this activist conservative Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.
'Bipartisanship' gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and "free speech zones" and "no fly" lists. God bless bipartisan America.
I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation than it should take 60% of the popular vote to get you elected.
When some Tea Party crank says, 'I want my country back,' I respond, 'No madam, you want your country backward.'
When a deficit-mongering politician says, "How do we pay for this?" Why not ask, "What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?"
When a compassionate conservative says, "Health care reform is socialism," why not answer, "No, sir it is the moral and American way to care for people."
Yes, I can hear it now: "You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone."
Bite me.
The only thing you get with "harmony" is a Barbershop Quartet.
Democrats stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair, get a message, get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.
G-O-P = Greed Over People.
Greed Kills - jobs, people and the economy.
Terrorism is cheap viagra for Republicans: The more fear - the more excited they get.
When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?
Don't act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?
You're losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You're losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don't talk to them any more than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don't talk with me. And you don't inspire and you don't champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.
You are facing a bully. Deal with it!
Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.
Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.
Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.
For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantel of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?
Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers - only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.
DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.
Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.
Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and health care because life is a preexisting condition and the 'free market' should not have to take on such a high risk - after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.
Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off health care but should put its hands inside a woman's body.
Republicans believe in small government - small enough to hold the "right" people and small enough to be owned and operated by the "right" people. And who are the "right" people? Them. Not you.
Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym - I have only one question for you: Really?
You can't win against these guys? You can't get your message out against these guys? You can't give America leadership against these guys?
Really?"
Finally, here are a few memorable aphorisms that were included, along with some of the author's choices of "American Heroes" -
American Heroes
Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan, Angela Davis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Brown, Joe Hill, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Leonard Peltier, Margaret Sanger
Quote
It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde
More Heroes
Susan B. Anthony, Morris Dees, Sojourner Truth
Quote
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
John Steinbeck
Still More Heroes
Sam Houston, Lenny Bruce, Clarence Darrow
Quote
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
Molly Ivins
Even More Heroes
Martin Luther King, Woody Guthrie, Roger Williams
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. Steven Weinberg
Ted McLaughlin
Job didn't seem to have much use for his anger, but this old hippie certainly does!
Freedom From Religion
It's too bad the Bible doesn't teach better morals, since some people actually try and derive their morality from it. --Daniel Florien
The Out Campaign: Scarlet Letter of Atheism
I don't follow the word of the Bible which condemns homosexuality, the eating of shellfish,and the mixing of fibers in a fabric while condoning hebephilia, genocide, and slavery. I'm simply thunderstruck that such a book could be used as a moral absolute for anyone. --Kylyssa Shay"
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2010/03/listen-up-democrats.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Flhav+%28jobsanger%29