Reply #1: We need a wildfire strategy [View All]

[sandnsea]

You can't use just one strategy when putting out a wildfire. You dump retardent directly on the fire, build fire lines, set back burns, protect buildings, wrap and coat irreplacable buildings, put out dangerous spot fires, watch smaller spot fires. Not only do we not have a strategy, we have Incident Command bickering back at base camp while the firefighters are out on the line looking for leadership. So I disagree with Pete that we need to pick one thing and focus on it, we couldn't let Alito go without a fight, or the Patriot Act, tax cuts, the budget, Katrina, and all the rest of it. But we do need a strategy and when a strategy is chosen, everybody needs to be on board. There is a Senate bill that has been passed on the Patriot Act, the ACLU supports it, and that should be the focus of everybody on the left. Unfortunately, half the left is still ranting about defeating anything called Patriot Act, despite the fact that even Russ Feingold supports the revised version. That's what happened with Iraq and everything else. The left sits out here and acts as if some of these things can just wait forever, when the voters are wanting to see action on terrorism. The left sits out here holding out for single payer health care, when the voters want action on health care. Until everybody on the left figures out how to move a degree or two in order to build concensus, we're going to continue to be ineffective and the fire will continue to burn right over top of us. We won't even agree on where to set up the fire shelters.