The aim is, in any case, not to quit but to punish and, hopefully, change. The problem with the current “progressive” approach is that it offers small carrots to our Party and its pols (at least compared to the AIGs and Pharmas) and no sticks. If the carrots must be small, the stick should really, really hurt–or at least be moderately satisfying to swing.

I can’t do any WORST than living in Denmark….

That’s why they keep beating this “Middle Class American” drum and won’t go near “Working Class” or “The Poor” because that segment of society overwhelmingly have dark skin, that’s the “We Got Ours Screw U” Big D Democratic Party.

If Obama was really willing to be a one term President, then pull all the troops out of these totally unneeded wars. That would save enough money for major Energy and Climate Legislation, Health Care Reform, Transformation of our Public Education System, etc.

They basically have 6-10 months to pass all that stuff listed in the story if less than 50% is not law by Sept, Dem’s can kiss their dominance in Congress good bye.

As I recall, Carter-/Clinton-/Rahm-Emmanuel-style, New-Democratic politics produced electoral disaster and locked in Republican control for 20+ years, in the process creating the fiscal crisis, the end of the unions, and the era of endless war. No matter how you choose to look at it, the greed and ambition of the Party leadership created the disaster, not rank-and-file disunity or bitterness. The mistake was foisting the Carters and Clintons on us in the hopes of attacting “moderates” (i.e corporations with deep pockets), not our failure to get behind the Party’s Chosen Ones.

The Party has effectively locked the membership out of the processes of selecting candidates and setting policy. It counts on leaving us nowhere else to go. It counts on being able to give us Republicanism Lite with the excuse that the Limbaugh/Hannity/Rove/Palin variety is so much worse. But in real terms, the heavy form of Republicanism just looks worse.The difference is in the cosmetics, not the substance. The wars, the joblessness, the giveawways to the rich, the assaults on civil liberties, even the torturing in the secret cells all continue, only with less fanfare and less visibility.

Changing the current political situation may require sacrifices. One of these may be a new Reaganish interregnum, like the one on which Virginia is now embarking. But a line has to be drawn. We have shown that we can and will mobilize to support the right policies and candidates that claim to support same. Now we have to show that we can mobilize to oppose bad policies and punish their proponents at the polls, even at considerable cost to ourselves. Otherwise, the Party will always promise one thing and deliver another.

So, unless we see real change really soon, the Party should consider me on strike. I will be voting “NO confidence” by not voting. I say that having never failed to vote–Democratic–in an election since I turned 18 in the year eighteen-year-olds got the vote.

I am.

No. But, I have two answers. Gore and Obama were opposed to the Iraqi War.

How many Iraqi kids did Clinton and Gore kill during the sanctions of the 1990s?

The Democrats had the power to stop the Iraq war but they folded.

Democrats have simply not been given enough of a reason to come out and vote yet.

As a loyal Liberal Democratic voter of some 45 years I have got to say I am damned disappointed in Obama and our Congressional Democrats. I have always believed that our so called Democrats, who failed to buck Bush on much of anything, failed to support or even debate impeachment, failed to call for enforcement of our Federal Anti-Torture Laws against obvious and admitted violations, failed to stop the Iraq War in 2007 by stopping the funding,
Would ever get voters a health care reform bill that was created for our benefit and not that of the greedy insurance companies.

I have been waiting since the 60s for real Democrats to show up. I still do not see any. I am willing to work hard to elect real Democrats but I am also willing to work to un-elect Democrats who disappoint me. I have waited too long for just more lies and excuses from Congressional Democrats.

Any candidate
is better than a do nothing democrat who lies to me.

ANGRYVOTERS.org

It you Liberal Democratic voters are not willing to make them fear you, they will never respect you.

I am mad as hell. Are You?