One thing the dems do know how to do is.....give you a link to donate money to get them re-elected.

By: Kally on March 14, 2006 at 08:24pm
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It's not surprising that Democrats so resemble -- and sound like -- Republicans.

Both parties are beholden to the same big-money interests, and those special interests want to maintain the status quo. They don't care which party maintains it.

It's increasingly obvious that American "democracy" at the federal level offers very few choices in terms of who will run the country. It's like the old Soviet Union: You can have Party Man A or Party Man B. But ultimately it's the same party.

By: Merlin7 on March 14, 2006 at 08:25pm
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This sums up the way I feel about it too. Most democrats seem to be more chummy with moderate Republicans than they do with their base of support. I suppose I could live with this if the moderate wing of the Republican party had any power, but they don't. Thus, our slow, gradual descent into 3rd World status.

By: z1adura on March 14, 2006 at 08:27pm
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"We the Morons"

Your title says it all, Marty.

You can't have peace and prosperity without at least a wee bit of effort AND generous helpings of frankness.

We all need to stop walking on eggshells. It's ridiculous.

You can't make a cake without cracking a few eggs.

You have to tell it like it is: http://PureBullshitAge.com...

By: Zero on March 14, 2006 at 08:30pm
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I sent this e-mail to the DNC this morning.

Please go to huffingtonpost.com and check-out the articles by David Sirota and Cenk Uygur.

They say it more eloquently than we non-writers. Democrats, get your act together, find a message on the topics of today and take a damned stand. The mid-term elections are now less than eight months away and you're not getting the message out there for the moderates and "undecideds". Show some backbone!!

I have been a registered Democrat since the first time I could vote, over thirty years ago, and I have never been less proud to admit it.

XXXX XXXX
Chicago

By: Ranman on March 14, 2006 at 08:34pm
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Part of it is that the Dem leadership have no idea who they are or what they really stand for. Are we Hillary Clinton, Jack Hanks or Nancy Pelosi? Is it right to choose, withdraw from Iraq, erosion of civil liberties, or those Republicans are spending way too mych money; we need to reign in spending? Gay marriage? Clinton only won because of Perot. Bush because of Nader. The country, on one hand is so fragmented that a single passionate stand isn't enough to carry the day.

You're right, people are engaged. The first thing to do is take back the power and if that means we're getting a pro-gun, pro-environment, pro-life feminist, who wants to raise taxes, cut spending and conduct a sane foreign policy or any variation of the above, so be it.

By: WhatdoIknow on March 14, 2006 at 08:36pm
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You're right Marty. The only genuine Democrats are the wild eyed liberal / leftist, a crusty Vet that nearly every single Congressman in America, Right and Left, disagres with regarding our mission in Iraq, and the Flower Boy who lost his own home state in the 2000 election. And never mind that he takes Saudi money to bash American policy while speaking to Arabs on foreign soil.
Enjoy the McCain / Rice administration. cheers!

By: sundevil on March 14, 2006 at 08:38pm
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When Bush took over the WH, & I do mean took over, I commented on Slate we picked a damned poor time to put a moron in the WH. There was an infuriated reply from some Swiftie who offered to 'meet me anywhere of my choice where he would teach me a few manners.' They didn't get it then & they don't now.

By: al113031 on March 14, 2006 at 08:45pm
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Marty,

I have 2 Republican Senators and 1 Republican Representative from my State and District. I have emailed them repeatedly. I get a canned "I believe in our President" reply. I have been outspoken in my area about Bush, his policies, 9/11, Iraq, among other issues. I watch day by day as the Republicans drive our country into war after war, record deficits yearly, and nobody but corporations and cronies benefit from this runaway spending. I am now at the point where the Democratic Party leaders are right; do nothing, say nothing.

The Republican base, the paid trolls, the shills on television, and the MSM all are bound and determined to have their way. Fine, let them have their way. Give them the '06 elections. Give them the White House in '08.

If the Democrats take over Congress in '06 they will impeach Bush. The Republicans will claim it is retribution for Clinton and the Republican base will accept no responsibility for the state of the country. If a Democrat wins the White House in '08 the Republicans will claim anything bad is the Democrats fault and the Republican base will take no responsibility for the state of the country.

It will not be until the country collapses, fully goes under due to the collapse of our dollar and economy, when there are riots, lootings, shootings, when martial law is declared and the military starts killing Americans that these idiots called the "Republican Base" and "Republican Shills" will begin to not only understand their role in the state of affairs but be forced to accept their role in it.

Of course, at that point they will say, "but, but, if Democrats had stood up..."

The only way for REAL change is to let the country fall under the Republicans. It wasn't until after Katrina, when the law enforcement there was ordered to shoot at looters, that they finally realized what was happening and 200 of them QUIT. Now... put that on the NATIONAL SCALE. It is the only way.

By: Val on March 14, 2006 at 08:47pm
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Too many democrats expect to win by default.

Several states are so disgusted with democrats that they are financing independents to run. They want to get out of the corporate quagmire of republican-democrat politics. That two party system is definitely corrupt.

By: seriously on March 14, 2006 at 08:55pm
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There seems to be a sort of long-awaited optimism that true change is on the way. Not soon enough.

http://hughesforamerica.typepad.com/hughes_for_america/2006/03/opti...

By: BobcatJH on March 14, 2006 at 09:18pm
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The Democratic congress is completely pathetic. Only Feingold, Dean and Hanks appear courageous enough to express their opinions. The rest need an infusion of spine.

By: retiredPhDMD on March 14, 2006 at 09:18pm
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You have been drinking too much blogosphere Kool-Aid. The people reading blogs or paying that much attention to the news are a tiny percentage of the voters.

There is no real world for your brain to make sense of, there are only these different virtual realities created out of news fragments and emotion and held together with spin.

Visit free republic and you'll witness a completely different virual reality where they drink another brand of kool-aid.

By: normdoering on March 14, 2006 at 09:20pm
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I'll drink to that!

By: April on March 14, 2006 at 09:37pm
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I couldn't agree more on our wimpy dems in congress.They don't stand for anything or if they do they don't vocalze it.I don't agree with the republicans on much but at least I know where they stand even it it is in the wrong place.How can we light a fire under our representatives?????

By: OB on March 14, 2006 at 09:47pm
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Where is the passion for political rebellion, for revolt in this country. I admire the way the masses turn out in other countries, but I think we have a fuse burning now, headed towards the podwer keg. I hope so anyway.

By: dynapro on March 14, 2006 at 09:57pm
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James Carville (Mrs. Mary Matalin) has been telling this to everyone who will listen for some time now.

He says it's a genetic defect. Democrats (now known as a type of invertibrate) have no spine.

By: NMvoiceofreason on March 14, 2006 at 10:14pm
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VAL: I agree with you 100%. Blame it on gravity. America will have to hit rock bottom before it's able to climb out of the hole. The sooner we allow the Republican corporation to take us to that end, the sooner we can get on with it.

By: TDB on March 14, 2006 at 10:19pm
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What buried Howard Dean?
Dean was waking up the dormant 50% (forget the 9% to 14% "swing voters"), that for whatever reason have given up on government a long time ago. That was his danger and why he was both destroyed and has been given still a strong voice in which to hopefully stimulate the dormant that have been disappointed yet more more time.
If you think this is anything close to being what it was like in the 60's than please tell me where are the monks burning themselves alive across the street from the White House and the hundreds-of-thousands that put themselves in harms way marching on the streets, occupying buildings demanding that the truth be visible?
I'll bring the pitchforks and torches. Let me know when the rest of you morons want to set a date.

By: gonnuts on March 14, 2006 at 10:27pm
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If the Dems would stop playing defense and take a stand for a change, without first sticking their fingers in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, they might get some respect. Are they going to sit on their hands while Bush tears up the Constitution and the rule of law? Come on, take a cue from Russ will ya! Get some Ninja fighting spirit and stop being such wimps!

By: jaz on March 14, 2006 at 10:38pm
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You'd think one of the Democratic consultants would know that not presenting a strong message results in presenting a message of weakness. There's no neutral in this. Except for Feingold, Hanks and a few others, none of these pols are earning our votes when it would take so little.
I can see frustrated and enraged voters supporting them just to get Bush and cohorts out of office and then turning on the most spineless democrats. Once the ball gets rolling these fencesitters will have something to be scared of.

By: ozymandius on March 14, 2006 at 10:40pm
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Can anyone spell Revolution? If this country heads in the same downward spiral, the people become aware of how they are being screwed, then the bible-thumping morons are gonna get their fondest wish, namely the End of Days. It't ain't gonna be pretty.

By: Larenzo on March 14, 2006 at 10:51pm
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Lorenzo,

Until the idiot base of the Republicans get the hint that nobody but the "inner circle" is going to profit from the current trend, nothing will change. They will push, whine about being persecuted, push, whine about whatever, push... and the beat goes on...

Until they... not the Dem's... THEY... drive this country into the dirt, where EVERY citizen finally realizes that if you're not in the inner circle you are nothing... it won't change.

So... let them... allow them to destroy America... let it collapse around them... let them see that THEY are not going to profit in any way, instead, they are going to be no better off then the rest of us... THEN REVOLT.

At that point, these people will finally STFU and let us rebuild.

By: Val on March 14, 2006 at 11:00pm
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I can't for the life of me figure why democrats won't acknowledge their base. The republicans have catered to their base for 6 long years, and have you noticed, they have the POWER. THey don't run away from their core beliefs, the embrace them! The democrats are in real danger of losing their base. If they do, good-bye 2006.

By: Grace on March 14, 2006 at 11:00pm
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YES. DID YOU ALL SEE HOW THEY SCATTERED WHEN RUSS FEINGOLD BROUGHT UP THE CENSURE MOTION. NOT ALOT OF COURAGE IN THIS CREW. THEY NEED SOME OF DOLES VIAGRA

By: jule on March 14, 2006 at 11:13pm
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