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I don’t post here that often. So many say how and what I feel so much better than I would that there hasn’t been a lot of need for me to espouse my feelings, my feelings are as often as not clarified and crystallized by others posts here.
In the last several years all of us have felt the hopelessness caused by passage of one bad law after another. From the Patriot Act to the Bankruptcy bill all the way to the redefinition of torture and the effective removal of Habeas Corpus in our way of life. The symbol of the Democratic Party went from a tough as nails Jackass not afraid of anyone to an old flea ridden beat up mule in the minds of America. Now in the period of two months real hope is around the corner for the first time in years.
Win or lose in the congress, the Democratic Party is energized, focused (well as focused as any party as diverse as ours can be), and aggressively meeting our opponents on every field of political combat. I think we’re going to win and win big, Tuesday itself will be the tell of the tale. But as we win, we need to remember some things that are our strengths and not let them get lost in political power struggles.
We ARE the party of Accountability and responsibility now. I see a lot of folks banging on Kerry for apologizing. Our folks are not perfect… and if they misquote something let them do their apology and move on. Force the repukes to apologize too! The public is damn sick and tired of political meanderings avoiding personal responsibility for ones actions. I.e. That trunk isn’t going to fly anymore. We need to lead by example.
Subpoena, Investigate, Indict. This is the process that will keep our control of the house and senate in 2008 and sweep a change president like Obama into office. You don’t want Bush impeached on December 1, 2006 no matter how tempting and how justified it is. You need his ugly ass getting pounded in every investigation from now until Election Day in 2008. Strip his advisors, send em to jail en masse but leave Bush himself alone. You can send him to the Hague AFTER he’s out of office. Right now, sad as it is, we need him sitting where he is getting slowly politically cooked alive to keep the public focus where it needs to be. Turn the heat up though. Boiled elephant needs a lot of heat to tenderize.
Continue those investigations even INTO OUR OWN PARTY when it’s needed. We need to demonstrate to the American people that we can police our own. Not everyone with a Donkey on his lapel is a saint. The ones that aren’t… get rid of em with the same zeal that you would ship Darth Cheney to Guantánamo with. The reality is MOST of scandals are going to be in the Republican Party. They already nailed our scandalmongers taking over congress and holding it. But we absolutely need to demonstrate our resolve in sane, effective and lawful government.
The work to undo all the harm that the Bush administration has inflicted on America is not the effort of 6 months or even 2 years. It goes well beyond THIS term of congress and into the next term and our new president. It’s going to take time to reverse the tax inequities, raise minimum wage, get our troops home, get religion out of government, restore our civil liberties and take back our place in the world as a leader in true democracy, a leader in civil rights, a leader not a bully. Most of that will not be accomplished in the upcoming 2 years with bush still in office to block most legislation to that effect, but we can use those 2 years effectively to set up the next 4 years when we get the America I grew up in back in place. We just have to be energetic, determined and focused.
In closing It’s great to see not a flea bitten mule slinking by the side of the road while fat cat elephants in limos go streaking by kicking dirt on a downtrodden party. The donkey has got its cape on; it’s been bodybuilding, running everyday and is back in shape. To the rest of the world…. The Jackass is back, we’re kicking butt and taking names, you can run but you can’t hide we’re going to investigate you and if you sold our rights and our country we’re going to hold you responsible. We’re tenacious as a mule and we will not be put down again.
Apologies to anyone in advance that takes offense of calling the Democratic symbol a Jackass. To me nothing is tougher than a jackass (I grew up in rural america), it a symbol to me of what we need to be... determined, tough, and unrelenting and is meant as a complement.
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