"The majority" is not a panacea, WHO is in office matters [View All]

[CTLawGuy]

The Democrats in Congress made DLC apologists who say "don't go after bad Dems, all we need is a MAJORITY" look foolish with their cave in to Bush on this funding bill.

We as the Democratic base need to vigorously fight for the best candidates for every office, becuase the kind of leader who is in office DOES matter. If we don't do this, the Dem leaders have no incentive to listen to us since there would otherwise be no way we could do anything about it.

People forget that the Dems had a MAJORITY in the Senate when Congress approved this horrible war. But Tom Daschle decided to do his Tony Blair impression, and a real leader might have put more of a monkey wrench (that is to say made the bill anything other than a complete blank check) in it.

We need a strong primary system.