I dunno, but it seems like we have to learn new tactics now that WE WON!!!!

[jobycom]

Seems like since WE WON!!! Congress, our strategy should shift from pointing out what everyone else has done that we don't like, to trying to get stuff done. That does require us to compromise, not get our way all the time, work with someone with a different nuance of Utopia than ours. It just seems to me that winning Congress doesn't mean we get our way, it just means that there are a lot more things we can agree with our "leaders" on. That we get more things we want, in other words, rather than everything we want.

I think we may be suffering from a pre-Nov 7th mentality, to steal a phrase. We may still think we are out of power and can only stand on the sidelines and scream our outrage. We are no longer on the sidelines. We are on the field, with the audience watching, and it seems to me that teamwork might be more constructive than what we did before. Before, it was all about screaming loudly so people would notice. Now our actions will do that for us.

Not saying there aren't real points to debate and fight about, not by a long shot. We should still fight. But I think now that we are in power, we need to focus our fights on what we can get done, instead of on whether others who agree with us on 70% of the issues are really evil because they don't agree with us on the other 30%.

Just my thoughts. This isn't about Hoyer/Murtha, btw. This is something I've been thinking since November 8th.

[Ian David]

1. Common GOOD-- Not Common GROUND! n/t

[jobycom]

2. Same thing. Just a question of who decides. nt

[w4rma]

3. I agree. Of course we aren't in control, yet. Not until the beginning of next year. (nt)

[jobycom]

4. True. But...

WE WON!!! :bounce:

[w4rma]

5. Heck yeah! (nt)