Here's The New "Democratic" Plan

[theFrankFactor]

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1. The people plea to Democratic elected officials for change

2. Democratic elected officials play you, making you think they are on your side.

3. They pretend (like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Ried et al*) to be playing hard ball in your interest. Doing their best to deliver on their rhetoric!

4. A Republican pushes them on the shoulder.

5. The Democrat collapses on the floor and starts crying blaming the super powers of the Republicans and a "center right" nation for their defeat.

6. Both are secure in knowing that corporate money will support them and you and your family and the rest of the global economy are fucking chumps.

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Now, I'm sure many here may argue that this post is promoting another party or not supporting Democrats and democratic policy. Well, that allegation would be my submission of proof as to how far afield being a "Democrat" has become. You see, for me, a registered Democrat and political activist, democrats that enable failure, lower democratic standards, cover for same and directly criticize the "Left" and Progressives--democrats that erode social programs that have NOTHING to do with the debt problems we face, democrats that are afraid to manage their representatives when they fail... those are people far more damaging to the Democratic party and Progressive policy than those that call out our own and push for progress. But hey, there's safety in numbers right?

* See the history of the Democratic party and Harry and Nancy during the Bush Presidency!

[emulatorloo]

1. Your hyperbole machine is malfuctioning, It is stuck on HYPERDRIVE

[izquierdista]

3. I do not think that word means what you think it means......

I think the word you are looking for is hypothesis, as in a pretty good working hypothesis, not hyperbole.

[ananda]

4. Definitely not hyperbole. Just true.

nt

[emulatorloo]

5. It is simplistic and idiotic. Tired old refrain. If you think democrats are the same as republcan

take a look at Wisconsin.

Or take a look at Iowa, where the Democratic Senate is stopping every deranged hateful piece of legislature that the teabag Gov and House pump out.

[theFrankFactor]

19. Will they ever be TOO MUCH like Republicans for you?

When will you notice?

[villager]

8. +1

n/t

[SidDithers]

2. I hope your radio show is better than this...nt

Sid

[boston bean]

12. I wish your comments were better. nt

[ixion]

6. k/r... yep. It's just theater

nothing more.

[Necromancer]

7. I don't think so

Most of the dems in the house and senate have been there so long that they don't know how to do anything any differently. That in itself is the main problem with government in general and the main problem with many Americans who voted for change. They seem to expect a magic blanket of change to appear overnight and cover everything just like that while expecting that nothing in their own lives will or needs to change. They have no understanding of the fact that if they wish to see real change we all, including THEM, have to change our own selves and our own ways.
However, Obama DOES know how to do things differently and IS change. If he has to burn some dems along the way (which he sure as hell should because they are stuck in a rut of their own making and therefore detrimental to necessary change), I believe he will.

[Doctor_J]

9. TOo bad he hasn't burned any Repukes along the way

besides that your post doesn't make any sense.

[Itchinjim]

10. Here's the new "Itchinjim" plan:

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1. Unrecommend this post.

2. Put theFrankFactor on ignore.

-Don't repeat.

[hfojvt]

11. there's one huge problem with that

1. In the last election, the country gave Republicans control of the House.

If "the people" didn't want Republicans to have power, they should not have allowed them to gain control of the People's House.

Like the commercial says

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnECY26PSHk

[bhikkhu]

13. Pretty much true - change all the names in the article and it still makes sense

...as an example of how easy it is to buy into any sort of narrative, in "troubled times". Pretty much every jackass or fascist that ever got elected convinced people first that he was the answer to their troubles.

First there has to be troubles, which are easily enough arranged when you can hamstring a government into default - and then you have to create a narrative where the guy you want to replace was the cause. People like simple narratives, and they like getting all worked up, and they are very unlikely to check sources if what they hear makes them feel all good and charged up inside...

[seeker4ever]

14. Republicans took the House becasue FUCKING DEMOCRATS didn't vote!

And why didn't they vote? Because President Republican-Lite watched Health Care reform become Buy-Republican-Health-Insurance-Company-Product or pay a fine! Along with the daily giveaways to Republicans craftily called "bi-partisanship!"

Some of you would praise this loser as we all goose stepped into corporate blending machines to create fertilizer for their estate mazes. "Give him time! You just want a pony! It will take forty years to undo what the Republicans did in four!"

If the Democratic party ever regains its respect it will have nothing to do with those that accept and excuse failure.

[theFrankFactor]

15. Kick because it's true.

[angstlessk]

16. I thought the 'Frank Factor' was tombstoned...or maybe

it was just wishful thinking?

[theFrankFactor]

17. That Woud Make Sense... Tombstoned for pushing Left, makes sense!

You people are hilarious! I used to wonder why Republicans didn't call out W. for being a fucking idiot loser and nowhere NEAR a conservative... you know, have some self respect, some standards even though they suck. And now we have Democrats that do the same thing! A President who campaigned on Hope & Change is only slightly Left of H. W. Bush and the "Democrats" in large numbers get in line!

And now, when someone calls out the BULL SHIT logic behind fucking with Social Security (which is NOT an entitlement, even though Brarack says so) you're supposed to shut the fuck up.

It really is embarrassing.

[theFrankFactor]

18. That Reminds Me... Where are all the Circle D's?