No more nice Dems...

[Mythsaje]

My advice to the Democratic Congress?

Screw "bi"-partisanship. Reaching across the aisle in this environment is like sticking your own neck on the chopping block. While they were in control, they marginalized you and roughly fifty percent of the American voting public at the same time. They don't want to work together...they just want to do everything in their power to keep you from accomplishing anything.

Forget about your next campaign season. Concentrate on doing the right thing, and never mind what the whores at the media are going to say about it.

You may think it's wise to stay above the fray, but I'm not sure that bit of wisdom still applies. When someone is throwing mud at you, the media will do everything it can to show you standing there stained with it. The corporate media is almost universally controlled by people who loathe democracy and all it stands for.

I suppose you have two choices. Descend into the fray with your fists swinging, taking on those who attack you directly. Yeah, stand up for yourself rather than allow the bullies to pick you apart.

Or you can all chip in together for an attack dog...someone who goes after the biggest mud-slingers and rips them to shreds right in front of everyone. It's not as though most Republicans don't have a virtual graveyard worth of skeletons in their closets. And it's almost always the ones with the most to hide who spend all their time pointing away from themselves.

You may consider this descending to their level, but, well, they lie, and stretch the truth into unrecognizable shapes. You don't have to. You can present the truth, cite sources, and walk away.

There's an old joke about bringing a knife to a gunfight. For too long the Democratic Party has been standing there virtually unarmed while the right has been free to take whatever potshots it wants. It's gotten to the point that the roughly fifty percent of the voting public who are more inclined to vote Democratic are just plain sick of it. Stand up for yourselves. And stand up for US.

I'm not saying you should be nasty. But you SHOULD be direct and brutally honest when called for. The best defense is a good offense, they say. In this case, they might well be right.

[blm]

1. Robert Parry agrees with you - GOPs thrive when Dems choose to move past BushInc's crimes.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/111106.html

[dogday]

2. Culture Of Corruption Starts At The Top nt

[Old Smokey]

3. Right on

Get up there and argue with these bastards. Take the gloves off and make it sting. Im sick of the GOP and thier bullshit. Wish to see the Dems get after 'em.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. Absolutely! Cons are hilarious when the Dems do that

I still rofl thinking about some of their faces when Conrad and Dorgan took them on over the Ag Bill. Kay Bailey-Hutchison was in shock that they would dare challenge the Cons. LOL!

Edit to add: The only weapons the Cons have is fillibuster and interrupt for more fillibuster. It's time to give it right back to them!

[porphyrian]

5. We need to hit them over the head with the truth. Hard. And often. - n/t

[leveymg]

6. Note to Dems: Be prepared to press the button

[dogday]

7. On to the Greatest Page with you

Hope this gets some play... Good article.....

[wryter2000]

8. Agree totally

But while you're going after them, insist you are being bipartisan and they're just being obstructionist.

[blm]

9. hahah....It's the Republican way.

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