Tuesday, November 21, 2006
We Can't Relax Yet!
Well, now that the dust has settled I thought I could throw some commentary on the Huge win for the Dems and especially for the DFV Fantastic Four.
It is definitely good to be back on top in Congress again, and I think all democrats owe themselves a pat on the back for not screwing up an election win that was ours to loose. Even though we won back Congress and even very decisively in the House, we can’t give ourselves too much credit. At times, it looked like the President the Republican Leadership were almost screwing up there chances on purpose. I have been saying, if we can’t win in 2006, there is absolutely no hope of ever winning again.
Well, I certainly have hope now, but we have so much work to do yet. The Democratic Leadership is still taking orders from the same minority group of Moveoners and if we relax now, we and I mean all Democrats will loose the next election and the country will again be thrown into the hands of the Republicans. The most obvious example of this is the rejection of the nomination of John Murtha as Majority Leader of the House. He is a social conservative and economic populist and this is certainly not what the moveoners had in mind, which is a socially liberial, elitist like most of them. What we need to do is keep reminding our Democratic Leaders that we are here and we are not going to lay down and play dead. We have a lot to say about our party and we need to organize ourselves and become a voice that they just can not ignore.
It is definitely good to be back on top in Congress again, and I think all democrats owe themselves a pat on the back for not screwing up an election win that was ours to loose. Even though we won back Congress and even very decisively in the House, we can’t give ourselves too much credit. At times, it looked like the President the Republican Leadership were almost screwing up there chances on purpose. I have been saying, if we can’t win in 2006, there is absolutely no hope of ever winning again.
Well, I certainly have hope now, but we have so much work to do yet. The Democratic Leadership is still taking orders from the same minority group of Moveoners and if we relax now, we and I mean all Democrats will loose the next election and the country will again be thrown into the hands of the Republicans. The most obvious example of this is the rejection of the nomination of John Murtha as Majority Leader of the House. He is a social conservative and economic populist and this is certainly not what the moveoners had in mind, which is a socially liberial, elitist like most of them. What we need to do is keep reminding our Democratic Leaders that we are here and we are not going to lay down and play dead. We have a lot to say about our party and we need to organize ourselves and become a voice that they just can not ignore.
