So you would rather that the rethugs take over once more so that you can “punish” the dems. Smooth, very smooth. Sure, lets get the homophobic rethugs back in power. Then they can push their agenda, the defense of marriage act. The national goal a law that prevents gay marriage. Sure bob, that will really show those dems a thing or 3. Well, if thats what floats your boat, to have the LGBT movement go back about 50 years, then Have at it.
But I will say this, if you stay home in 2010 and the repigs win, then I do not want to hear any wailing and gnashing of teeth. You will have made your bed, so you must sleep in it. A shake of my head and a big sigh of disbelief. How short are your memories? Youall suffer from ADD? You really want the rethug nation to win? They already seem to think that they will win the indies-like me-and that, along with their hard core wing nuts and the fact that so very many dems will “stay home” to “punish” Obama. Well, myself, I think that you are all a bunch of crybaby idiots. Not very smart either. Losers. So, go cry in your soup, don’t vote, let the rethugs win, watch your entire agenda go right down the toilet. I hope you will be satisfied. That you “punished” the only ones on your side and let the reactionaries win. Welcome back to 1950s america, I hope your happy.

I’m home in 2010.

To my mind, extracting Wall Street from government is more important to me than same sex marriage. It is even more important to me than housing and job protections for LGBT. Extracting Wall Street from government is probably more important to principled conservatives than abortion or same sex marriage are.

Unless there is a core of progressive Democrats who will stand up inside the Democrat Party and defend the right of an independent progressive party to exist, we will see what happened post-Nader, around 2003 when it became clear that Bush had gone off the deep end, and the Democrat Party launched full bore attacks on the Green Party.

It really does not matter if Palin becomes president, it really does not really matter whether the GOP or Dems control Congress. The difference between the two is insignificant compared to their common ground. To allow yourselves to be so deceived is problematic, to project your political deceptions onto others is untenable.

Gotta wonder if the HRC put the brakes on progress so that they can have the next gala dinner? I remember a sign from the disastrous 2000 march on washington put together by the HRC that read “elect fair minded leaders.” With a political approach like that, it is a wonder that we’re not already first class citizens.

The Democrat/HRC nexus needs to be blown up, politically, not bomb like.

In afterthought I can’t help but wonder if the DINO’s would then be left with a hollowed-out party and thus be motivated to openly join the Republican monsters they currently support, again,leaving us with a two-party system, albeit one with clearer and more honest demarcations.

This is the most productive way to go. Staying home or doing nothing but being “steamed” is counter-productive.

Working against negative forces may be tiring, but it is also energizing because there is something to be excited about, like prospective legislators, the people’s representative responding to the voters’ ire………one of the hallmarks of a representative democracy.

Staying home, not politicking, not voting…….these are *not* options………

EVERYTHING!

2010 will certainly be a massacre for democrats. obama has done everything possible to decimate the foot soldiers that put him in office and gave democrats dominating control of Congress. Neither obama or the Democratic Congress have come close to delivering – just the opposite. Nobodies showing up in 2010 or 2012 to put them back in power.

obama will lose in 2012 unless the republicans run one of their batshit crazy stooges for POTUS, and even then any obama victory will be the slimmest of margins.

obama and emanuel have totally effed up the historic opportunity they had for progressive change in the country.

I’m angry too. But I also understand politics in America. Let’s get what we can for now. The process in this country is that of two steps forward and one step back. I don’t like it any more than you, but that is the reality of today. We can keep struggling for what we know is right, or we can give up. I choose to fight on.