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[somedaybitch]

Soderberg: Well, I think, you know, as a Democrat, you don't want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don't want them to have progress. But as an American, you hope good things would happen.

that, is why you fail. /Yoda

you not recognizing that those two statements are utterly contradictory, and you not recognizing that blocking the other party at every turn is not a legitimate party platform is why you got your asses kicked in November. it has nothing to do with the so-called religious conservative vote, which hadn't increased in numbers from the previous election. it was average Americans sick of the bullshit and wishing their representatives would actually, you know, represent *them*.

Soderberg: There's always hope that this might not work.[Lebanon and the Middle East.]

hey guys? get off my side, mmkay? thanks. because legitimately hoping a country's attempt to throw off their oppressors will fail because of your politics is bullshit. that kind of person doesn't deserve to live in this country. seriously. i hear Cuba's nice this time of year, and you know, they have 100% literacy.


Dear Democratic Party Elite,

get it the fuck together. this country well and truly needs you. seriously.

love,

a Republican




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Comments

gotta love the bonnie hammer school of policy representatives

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

so, you have to wonder if she realizes now, how bad all this sounds. :rolleyes: She's gonna have a hard time claiming that all was a joke. And a hard time living up to the fact that it looks like she is whining about the opposition succeeding. I have always had a problem with similar points of view from the Dems... like somehow I helped Bush win and Gore loose by voting for Nader in 2000. Um, No? If you can't get enough Votes together to win legitimately on your own, that is YOUR OWN PROBLEM. If Kerry can't win on his own, THAT IS NOT SOMEONE ELSES FAULT.

If'n you don't like what Bush is doing now, then make a difference! Don't whine about him winning, present a BETTER alternative. If you can't, then say nothing. All I'm hearing are sour grapes...

hehehe>>>>

get it the fuck together. this country well and truly needs you. seriously.<<<<<

opinion seconded... by an indy ;)

Re: gotta love the bonnie hammer school of policy representatives

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

If'n you don't like what Bush is doing now, then make a difference! Don't whine about him winning, present a BETTER alternative.

yes! and PLEASE DO. no one is always right about everything all the time. the country needs discourse, needs healthy differing opinions, needs people from different viewpoints pointing out what they see as flaws, because how else does it get fixed, or adjusted, or better handled, or more equally represented?

Re: gotta love the bonnie hammer school of policy representatives

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

no one is always right about everything all the time. the country needs discourse, needs healthy differing opinions, needs people from different viewpoints pointing out what they see as flaws...

amen..

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Word. Honestly. We need to get our shit together. The truth is, the body of the Democratic Party knows that, aside from pansy-ass senators who are shifting to the right because they're afraid to stand up against the majority vote.

It's exhausting. I spent my days now trying to convince supporters and donors that it's worth it to believe in a Democratic Party that has LET YOU DOWN year after year. And we've realized -- in recent weeks, only -- that a serious shift to the left is the only way to reassert ourselves as the party FOR ideals, as opposed to being defined as just "not the other guy." Naming Howasrd Dean as our chair was a step in the right direction, and people like Barbara Boxer are coming forward and representing. We do have, however, lots and LOTS of work to do. And I'm scared -- as scared as you are, as scared as most folks are -- that we won't get our asses in gear in time. That we'll sell out to moderation AGAIN.

And I just -- I think of Kathy Bates in Primary Colors. Year after year, term after term, putting all my hope in the POSSIBILITY of a Democratic Party that stood up for what *I* believe in, and year after year, being disappointed. I'm tired. We're tired. But like an idiot, I keep throwing in with 'em and HOPING this time it'll be different. This time it will be the Jed Bartlet REAL THING.