Reply #22: No, actually its all about how the Democratic response frames the issues. [View All]

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You said something interesting. "Now, if you have a problem with the level of fierceness or vitriol expressed by the Dems, then that still is another matter entirely."

No, it's not another matter entirely. A weak response may be worse than none at all. After 9/11, the Dem leadership adopted a policy of avoiding direct opposition to the Bush White House on issues of war and peace and terrorism at the urging of James Carville and Stan Greenberg. That was shown to be a disaster with the 2002 Congressional election. Then, they got another chance.

I wish the Party had followed their advise offered in a late February memo. The two wrote: "We ask progressives to consider, why have the Republicans not crashed and burned?"

"Why has the public not taken out their anger on the congressional Republicans and the president?" they added. "We think the answer lies with voters' deeper feelings about the Democrats who appear to lack direction, conviction, values, advocacy or a larger public purpose."

There could be no clearer demonstration of a renewed Democratic purpose and assertion of values than to call for the criminal indictment of the President, VP and his top appointees. If we don't do it ourselves, then someone else is going to.

It's better if Americans take care of this problem ourselves.


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