Dems should spend the next two years crushing their opponents like bugs.

[ClassWarrior]

Democrats, Don't Wimp Out
by Paul Waldman

All over Washington, the sage barons of the establishment media are warning Democrats not to get cocky. Don’t move too fast, they say. Don’t push a bunch of wacky, left-wing ideas. Seek compromise, give ground, hew to the center, for only there lies the greatest prize of all: the praise of David Broder and Joe Klein, the nodding approval of the Washington Post editorial page, the admiration the Beltway cognoscenti reserve for those who know their place and know whose rings they should be kissing.

Bull. What Democrats need to do is spend the next two years crushing their opponents like bugs. It’s not about mercy, it’s not about manners, it’s about three fundamental goals: limiting the damage the Bush administration can do, passing whatever legislation they can in the short term to help the American public and laying the foundation for future progressive victories.

Democrats finally have the upper hand, and now’s the time to use it. Here are a few things they can do to get started.

1. Investigate—But Smartly

The combination of the most secretive administration in modern times and the most supine Congress in memory meant that Congressional oversight utterly disappeared over the last six years. Democrats have an obligation—to the people that elected them, and to democracy itself—to make up for lost time. Investigations should be rolled out on a carefully planned schedule, to maximize both news coverage and pressure on the administration...

More here: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/11/15/democrats_dont_wimp_out.php

NGU.

[MadMaddie]

1. Agreed and they also need to stop the Progandization of the Media

by the Repugs...by breaking up the big media corporations...

[pnorman]

4. "stop the Progandization of the Media"

Just restoration of the FCC's "Fairness Doctrine" (dropped during the Reagan presidency), should go a loooong way to defanging that Right-Wing Noise Machine.

pnorman

[MadMaddie]

5. That's true...whatever it takes to stop the madness

[earthside]

2. No. Democrats Must Govern.

They must prove they can get along with Bush and the Republicans.

They must try and pass responsible legislation.

They should be civil and bipartisan.

Investigations, impeachment, cutting funding for deploying U.S. troops to Iraq ... are too partisan and too divisive.

It's all about "governing".


:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[pnorman]

3. Harry Truman once said:

"I don't give my opponents HELL. I tell the TRUTH, and they think it HELL!"

Let's not get sucked into the quagmire of "Impeachment". Just address the problems immediately facing our Nation, and the rest will inevitably follow. Most assuredly, the Reptilicans within the Republican Party will think it HELL! Just showing Bush as the pompous, strutting, sock-puppet that he really is, should be schaudenfreude enough. For starters, John Conyers would like to know a leetle more about our election system.

pnorman

[ClassWarrior]

6. Now that you mention it, I don't think the article mentions IMPEACHMENT...

...even once. Read it please. It's good.

NGU.

[pnorman]

7. You're right.

I guess it was "DU-Overload". I'd been reading too many threads here this evening, and in rapid succession. They're starting to run together!

This is the THIRD time in recent days, that I've fallen into serious error here by inattention. Please excuse me; you all know what's been scrambling my brains since last Tuesday!

pnorman

[ClassWarrior]

8. Understood.

:thumbsup:

NGU.