If a foreign entity did this kind of damage to us as a country, this same dingdong Congress would be drawing up a Declaration of War. This is nothing less than domestic terrorism. I think it could also be described as sedition, and if we pushed it and added "...during wartime," we might even call it treason. If we wanted to stir things up, we certainly could. They're starting to invoke the "i" word (impeachment), so why can't we start up the drumbeat with the "t" word?
I think we Dems should remain on offense, since showing a solidly united backbone from the White House on down certainly paid off this week. We have a large number of the opposition visibly shaken. They may act like they're outnumbered by the teabaggers but they're not. We need to start trying to reach out to them and convince some of 'em to help us out, take advantage of OUR numbers (which frankly are nothing to sneeze at in the House of Reps even while we don't quite have a majority). We need to start further isolating the teabaggers from the mainstreamers and, well, I'll go along with it for the moment, "moderates." We need to help drive that wedge in deeper. If they splinter off, great!!! That's two parties the Dems will face, neither of whom can win alone and are so alienated from each other that they probably can't do much business together. The teabaggers won't accept anything or any candidate that enough the so-called moderates will vote for, because the teabaggers only feel emboldened (yeah, theirs IS a Bizarro World indeed!) and feel encouraged to go even more extreme. And the so-called moderates have already been turned off by their extremist mates. So far, not lethally so. BUT it's only in the past couple of days that the business community started speaking up. That still holds tremendous significance for the so-called moderates. The baggers don't give a flying fuck, but the so-called moderates I think have a brand new case of ice-cold feet as far as going along with the nutcases, because the business community has started screaming. That throws a lot more weight against the increasingly frightening onslaught of the teabaggers.
In ANY Event - the Dems should be looking at any and all ways to exploit this condition. ANY way we can help keep them weak and upset, on the defensive, tearing at each other, and DIS-united, we should do or at least try. What's the ONE THING that kept coming up in all the commentary surrounding the Democratic power play? That we were UNITED. That the Dems were solidly UNITED. That was and is viewed as a huge attribute in any case. Even moreso when it contrasts so dramatically with a completely disrupted and chaotic enemy.
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