Reply #73: The response of national Democrats to these protests in general has been shameful.

[last_texas_dem]

Contrast the muted reactions of national Democrats to those of national Repugs to the teabagger crowd ca. 2009. Repugs were falling all over themselves to align themselves with the often scary and extreme "Tea Party" protesters, while most national Democrats are silent or noncommittal and just can't quite muster up the courage to identify themselves with all those apparently far-too-extreme students, teachers, and public workers filling the streets in Wisconsin and other states.

You'd think even a pol basing a decision upon the most nakedly political of calculations would see standing alongside with a major constituency as a win-win. What in the hell has happened to this party?