Idiotic Talking Heads Obsessed With Negative Propaganda Against Dems

[stopbush]

If it's not the "Dems better be careful, this (insert issue here) could BACKFIRE," then it's the
"Dems could blow it with their infighting (Murtha/Hoyer)" or the "they need to show unity
or they'll be in big trouble" meme.

The pundits have no imagination whatsoever. They have grown used to the lock-step unity of the
Rs and think that such unity is the only way to govern effectively. They don't stop to think about
how the lockstep unity eventually lost for the Rs. They never imagine that such lockstep, rubber-stamp
unity got us in the mess we're in today.

Note to the talking heads: let Democrats be Democrats. We don't fear debate, even within our party.

Get over it...and get used to it.

[ClassWarrior]

1. They haven't "grown used to" anything... What about the...

...Majority Leader fight between Blunt and Bohner? It was no more or less a case of "infighting" than Murtha and Hoyer. The pundits are complicit.

NGU.

[Skidmore]

2. I don't understand why noone calls the media on this crap.

We need real Dems out there to field this stuff, and I don't mean Brazile, Carville, Begala, and McCauliffe either.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. they have nothing else to say. Their policies were repudiated, their opinions

proved to be false. All they have left to them is to spoil the victory if possible. What they forget is that people were extremely interested in the campaign. I believe this was one of the highest turnouts in a non presidential year. Now that they have done their duty, they are tuning out the political whores and whoremongers who created this mess in the first place. Here at DU, and other places, we are political junkies, and we care very much about the lame duck session, some future autocratic decisions by Bush, and some further missteps re: iran.

But the vast majority of the American population is exhausted by the process, pissed at the attack ads, tired of bushisms and just hoping that all the pols would simply slink away like the rats that many of them are. Therefore, these talking head words will pass like gas at a Blazing Saddles campfire. Amusing, so long as you stay upwind.

[LilyLibber]

4. I love your analogy!

:rofl:

To call this "infighting" is ridiculous. Isn't it more like an internal Democratic election for certain positions? And what's wrong with that?

The spin makes me dizzy.

[bigtree]

5. the alternative to unity is . . .?

how can these factions unilateraly effect legislation to achieve their goals if they don't try to achieve 'unity'?

[Cosmocat]

6. THIS is the chance ...

To FINALLY make a dent into the MSM/republican incestual relationship ...

The "winning" aspect of the republican message has now been brought down, and the battle to define the MSM is now open ... YES, the republicans retain the homefield advantage due to being CORPORATE ... However, the myth of republican/conservative dominance has been pierced ...

The democrats HAVE to make a charge at the high ground here ... The message and frames have to be POSITIVE ... The people of this country are DYING for positive leadership, and will gravitate to that direction if given the chance ...

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are right on track with "opening up" the congressional process ... Opening up is a positive message that is hard for the right wing to paint negatively ... This is the way the democrats have to plug away ...