Arianna Huffington Dems need to get their * together

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"Not this time, Mr. President"
Dems will soon have an "accountability moment" of their own -- when Bush asks Congress for another $100 billion for Iraq.

Jan. 20, 2005 | When pressed by the Washington Post last week about why no one in his administration has been held accountable for the myriad failures in Iraq, President Bush sounded uncannily like Will Forte's petulant caricature on "Saturday Night Live": "Well, we had an accountability moment -- and that's called the 2004 election."

There was no word on whether the president then put his thumb on his nose and wiggled his fingers, or just went with the more efficient single middle finger.

In the next few weeks, Democrats in Congress will have an "accountability moment" of their own -- George Bush's request for another $80 billion to $100 billion in supplemental funding for the war in Iraq.

This will be the third time since the war began that the president has come to the Hill looking to refill his Iraqi coffers. The last two times, congressional Democrats helped rubber-stamp his requests, forking over $152 billion in military funding.

The time has come for Democratic leaders to say: "Not this time, Mr. President."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/huffington/2005/01/20/iraq_money/index.html

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1. when she's right, she's right.

the rip in the fabric of democratic stratgy has to be mended.
unity in opposition will offer the only opportunity for dems to begin to make inroads in a positve way in the minds of americans.
republicans realized back in the reagan era -- there was no reason to play nice, and any pr was better than no pr.

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2. The problem is we can't seem to unite on anything. Every single time

there is a good fight to be fought it's always a single senator or congressmen or two doing all the fighting, while the other clowns been over and spread em. A minority can win concessions and even the entire war if they speak and focus on the message, if they are willing to sacrifice for the long term. Remember Martin Luther said "I may not get there with you, but I have a dream..." The Republicans are in power now because talk radio, conservative columnists and political leaders spoke the same message. Said the same things over and over again and supported each other when I attacked.