"Mere collegiality": Will it work?

[puebloknot]

A clip from the www.nonesoblind.org blog:

Republican leaders have succeeded in creating the notion among their base that there are no provable facts, that all criticism is partisan, and that since you can’t know the truth, you simply have to trust your side. They have become the committed enemy of honest, rational debate. So how are we to convince rank-and-file Republicans with mere collegiality?

More at:
http://www.nonesoblind.org/blog/?p=521

I hope Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will see this. Democrats *must* take a strong stand in favor of law, morality, the wellbeing of the nation -- such a strong stand that reluctant Republicans *might* see the futility of continuing to march in lockstep to the drumbeat of Bush, et al.

Such a stand would also go a long way toward keeping Democrats in the fold who are watching to see whether the Democratic party is going to merit our support now, and in 2008.

There are hopeful stirrings with Waxman's hearings, to include Fitz and Valerie Plame; with the planned *binding* resolution to compel responsible troop withdrawal from Iraq; with the hopeful news that we may get our votes back.

And now, we await impeachment, not to mention a holding to account in the courts, domestically and internationally, for the treason that has been openly committed by Bush, et al.

We must hold them accountable -- every last one of them who have trampled on our constitutional rights and engaged in illegal wars and torture in our name!

[kenny blankenship]

1. Did collegiality work when we were the minority?

I don't expect collegiality to work any better now either.
I don't advocate trying to suffocate them the way they tried to do to us, but nobody should expect the opposition to stop being Fascist in nature just because they are no longer in the majority.

[puebloknot]

2. Well said! And we "play nice" with them at our own peril.