The Con's aggravate me to no end in this country, but I'll say this for them (at least at the Federal level): holy cow do they know how to get (usually) what they want.
By comparison, the Democratic Party has become the Party of Institutional Spinelessness. And that's not good for us at this point in history.
This woman has figured out that playing the same game, at the same level, on the same field, is the only way to even stand a chance. The idea that we are "better" than them, and should conduct ourselves TACTICALLY that way, is nuts. Yes, we have a political arena whos purpose it is, is to keep bloddy rebellion from breaking out in the streets...but INSIDE that arena, we should consider politics, policy, and public government the FIERCEST of bloodsports. I would go so far as to say that this was President Obama's most short-sighted mistake. I would have tried TWICE to reach out to the opposition leadership, and then I would have made them SCREAM for "compromise". When he took office, he had (basiclly) from the American electorate, a MANDATE to crush the fuckers that brought us the Iraq Occupation, and the Banksters who crashed the WORLDWIDE economy, as well as the governmental IDIOTS who enabled them, as fast and as hard as he could. If he had spent the second year of his first term stepping on thier throats, instead of giving them the political equalivant of CPR, we would'nt HAVE to run filibusters in order to protect a woman's right to basic healthcare.
Chris Hedges said that getting arrested for attending a peaceful protest is more time than he would care to donate to his government. For the chance to give Mitch McConnell a concussion with Uncle Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick, I sure as HELL would re-consider agreeing with that statement.
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