Democrats: Boldly waiting until the time is right

[struggle4progress]

BY KEVIN HORRIGAN
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dick Durbin, who has come a long way from Assumption High School in East St. Louis, was back in town the other day. I asked him a version of the question that every pundit is asking every Democratic politician these days: What ever happened to the Democratic Party?

Iraq, I said. Health insurance. Income gaps, gilded-age plutocrats. Risk-shifting that puts the burden of the social contract on the backs of individuals. Why isn't anybody out in front raising hell? <snip>

"I understand the frustration," he said. "I tell you, it's hell not to have the pulpit. This man (President George W. Bush) sets the agenda. He moves the agenda. It's always been that way. And we (Democrats) don't speak with one voice. You don't until you have a nominee. The media doesn't treat us in the same way as they treat the president and the White House." <snip>

So this is what leadership looks like now: A Republican president with poll approval numbers in the 30s, the nation bogged down in an endless war, the NSA listening to private telephone calls, widening income gaps, 45 million uninsured Americans and at least that many more straining to meet co-pays, a middle class whose real earning power hasn't increased in 30 years, pensions at risk, Social Security at risk, etc., etc., etc., and the Democratic Party is waiting for the "right moment to strike." <snip>

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/14213080.htm

[necso]

1. Funny piece. /nt

[Demit]

2. Durbin makes one very important point---

"...The media doesn't treat us in the same way as they treat the president and the White House."

Maybe not Mr. Horrigan, but any time a Democrat raises hell, he or she gets subtly ridiculed by the reporting press. The Dems would help themselves by speaking with one voice, I grant, but even then the press loves to include the obligatory quote by a Repug that it's a partisan stunt.

[yurbud]

4. If they were right, public would ignore ridicule and hear the message

[gizmo1979]

7. We can't blame the media.

you create your own spin.I've seen whole weeks pass and not one good story for Bush just hammered all week.The dems sit on their hands.They need to get in a room pick a leader and a message and stick too it.Vote together and be seen as having a clear message.

[Demeter]

3. While the Party Waits, the People Die

I think the GOP has enough rope now, guys. It's safe to drag them out and string them up.

[classysassy]

5. The right time is now.

haven't the republican thugs caused enough harm to our country,gets some balls and lets kick some ass.

[classysassy]

6. forgot my?

yes they have harmed our nation greatly,the greedy bastards.