They care nothing for what we do and know in our liberal forums.
Only if we can get a reaction from the rest of America and keep it sustained is it a problem with the Bush administration.
Hint: We can't do that if we don't go interact with the rest of the people in this nation, in mixed forums and chats or even out in the street.
Hanging around DU we just neuter ourselves.
People in mixed forums are often not very knowledgeable yet want to know what is going on, and Republicans are there to teach them the rw talking points.
They can spew a lot in a little time because they just wait for some simplistic stuff to come out at national review, CNS, World Net Daily or come in their RNC talking points emails.
Our side tends to long rants that don't work well in mixed forums.
We need to distill real news that can be verified, and yet cut down into bites that most Americans can use.
Then we need people to get the truth out to the rest of America.
Remember how many hours teens spend on the web!
To cut out the insider stuff which can't be presented to the public, Fele and I started a news forum (
http://www.network54.com/Forum/341201 ). It also has a free search function. We only have a few members so far, but it has served well to have the facts at hand while we all go out to mixed forums. (I started blogging so I can't do both, but between the blogs and the news forum we often have the kind of stored knowledge we need. And yes we are looking for new members --instructions at the bottom of the forum.)
Links to my blogs:
Distant Thunder:
http://distantthunder.blogspot.com/Thunder in the House:
http://thunderinthehouse.blogspot.com/