Reply #53: Sometimes half of the loaf is all you are able to get. [View All]

[davsand]

You celebrate what you were able to accomplish, take a deep breath, and pick up the fight again knowing you are still in the game and ABLE the keep fighting. I learned that lesson a long time ago in the context of ANY organizing or political agenda.

Yep, this is most certainly not the reform I personally wanted. It is, however, what we got and it IS an improvement over where we were at Jan One of this year. Celebrate that and start busting ass to get rid of the Dem snakes that screwed our nation this time around. We know now who they are, and we can begin to work on that.

We also can start working on individual bills to modify this mess and move it closer to what we want to see. There is NOTHING that says we can't go back in there and try to limit the amount of damage caused by the weaker portions of this bill. Again, you gotta take what you can get and keep on working toward what you need.

I sat in a room full of Democats last night discussing plans for the next round of elections. THAT is how this stuff works and you cannot forget that. The most dangerous time of all is when you think you can afford to give up or when you think it isn't worth it to keep going.


Laura