No Democratic Party "Win" Next Week By Rob Kall

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October 30, 2006

No Democratic Party "Win" Next Week

By Rob Kall

Next week, it looks like the Republicans are going to lose big. They deserve to. They'be been corrupt, dishonest, more loyal to corporations and religious extremists than to our nation, our workers, our industries. The Republicans have been loyal rubber stampers to the worst president in the history of the US. They have enabled and supported, unflinchingly, the most hated, the most despised man in the history of the planet.

But let's get one thing straight, when the Democrats win, it will not be because of the Democratic leadership, not because of their advocacy for the working class. Oh sure, there are a batch of extraordinary candidates-- in spite of the DCCC and DSCC. Those individual candidates deserve lots of credit. But the Democratic leadership has not been at all successful or effective in elucidating a vision, a plan that captures and inspires the imagination of Americans. They have been timid when they should have been tough. They have been short-sighted when vision was needed.

Howard Dean has been a notable exception among the Democratic leadership and he's been hamstrung by the other wimpy, spineless "leaders" in the Democratic party, who are really not leaders. They're more like anchors.

One of the biggest problems the Democratic party has is that it is afflicted by "DLCism." These Republican-lite losers would turn the Democratic party into what the current extremist, far right wing Republican party used to look like. Sorry. That doesn't cut it for me. And it really doesn't cut it for the vast majority of Democrats and moderate independents.

Commenting on the elections, Charlie Rangel says, "This is a referendum on the war and the incompetency of the Bush administration." He's right. And it's outrageous that at this time the Democratic party has been unable to clearly express a vision that stands above the war. It is a failure-- a dismal failure on the part of the Democratic "leadership" that they have not been able to get out even the simple message that they are going to return to balancing the budget by returning to taxing the rich while continuing the tax breaks to the middle class. That's why the Republicans have been able to run ads all across the country stating that the Democrats will be raising taxes for the average family.


Authors Bio: Rob Kall is executive editor and publisher of OpEdNews.com, President of Futurehealth, Inc, and organizer of several conferences, including StoryCon, the Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application of Story and The Winter Brain Meeting on neurofeedback, biofeedback, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology. He is a frequent Speaker on Politics, The art, science and power of story, Positive Psychology, Stress, Biofeedback and a wide range of subjects.

[CGrantt57]

1. I love these morons.

It's like: "Well, you're gonna win, but, you're not gonna win in the 'right way,' so, it's not really a win."

What an asshat.

[Justyce]

2. I think more and more of the dems are slowly coming around

to accept the fact that there's a reason there are so many of us "Deaniacs" & it's a bus they don't want to miss...

[emulatorloo]

3. Who needs this tiresome "Attack from the Left" nonsense now?

Just spend your time getting out the vote. We need a majority. We need the committee chairs.

Senator Pat Cover Up Roberts must go.

[fjc]

4. The timing of this is bad, but he's telling it like it is, IMHO.

[Doctor Panacea]

5. Win or not?

I wish I could believe that the Democrats will win next week.

But I cannot. In America all the important elections boil down to a statistical dead heat. It is sad that it works that way, but it does. It will be really close next week, and the Republicans will steal enough seats to retain control.

I hope I am wrong.