It’s Time The Democratic Party Grows a Pair or Goes Away
by There’s a Democrat president in the White House. There’s a Democrat-controlled Congress. Still, nothing gets done. Enough is enough. If the Democrats want to help the United States, it’s time the party as a whole stood up for itself and stopped being a bunch of whiney crybabies.
Late Tuesday night, Republican Scott Brown won a victory as the new U.S. Senator to one of the most liberal states in America, Massachusetts. As if that wasn’t enough of a slap in the face to the Democrats, the seat Brown won had formerly been held by Democrat leader Edward M. Kennedy for almost 50 years.
If this isn’t a sign of the general public’s outrage at how the Democrats have handled the U.S. over the last year, then nothing is.
True, it’s been a rough year. The economy has tanked badly. There are still wars going on. Nothing is really being done about the environment. The health care debate has become a joke.
And who is to blame? The finger pointing has already begun. Democrats in Massachusetts are blaming the Democrats in Washington, D.C. The Washington Democrats are blaming those in Boston.
All the while, the Republicans are sitting back smug.
Yes, the Republicans. The same people who controlled Washington when the economy first collapsed. The same group who controlled Washington when terrorists killed thousands upon our very own soil. And the last two wars began. The very same political party that controlled every branch of the U.S. federal government when questions of torture came up, and when wire tapping was permitted on American households.
Yeah, those people. The Republicans.
And now they suddenly look good to Americans again, just one short year later.
So, who is really to blame?
The answer: The ENTIRE Democratic party.
Why? Because the party as a whole not only has no strong leadership, but it has no backbone. The Republicans aren’t a split party when it comes to … well, just about anything. It doesn’t seem to matter if an issue is economic, social, or whatever, the Republicans can get their act together and push through whatever it is they want.
But not the Democrats. They have to make deals and have meetings and try to work things out with the moderates. They sit back and let the Republicans bad-mouth them and call them all kinds of names, some appropriate and some not. And do the Democrats do anything about it? No, they whine and hope the Republicans won’t look too good in the next election.
Enough is enough. If the Democrats want to have any kind of future in the stakes of this nation, it’s time the party as a whole took off the kid gloves and began dealing with the Republicans forcibly and directly.
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Post Commentqasimdharamsy
On January 20, 2010 at 7:03 am
at present every country needs GOD’S help….
Guy Hogan
On January 20, 2010 at 8:41 am
There’s a lot here to agree with. Now that the Republicans have won this Senate seat, I wonder what’s going to happen to healthcare.
Nitin Mudgal
On January 20, 2010 at 10:28 am
God bless U.S.A . You are right.
drelayaraja
On January 20, 2010 at 10:40 am
Nice write…
Leonardo da Vinci E.
On January 20, 2010 at 3:25 pm
The G.O.P. has a huge proportion of its people dedicated to creating a system by which the good ole boys, their families and friends are able to enrich themselves and live a good life by making the Americans work hard for mere pennies. That’s their only goal in life…by any means necessary. The Democrats are showing clearly that it no longer has the envisionment and creative thinking which can solve real life problems. The Republicans believe in holding jobs which do no real work (paper pushers) and which gives them authority over the lives of others (forget the constitution!). Democrats have become so lazy that they are not willing to do the cultural work and instruction which is necessary as a foundation to uphold the institutions for which this nation has endured nor are they willing to improve upon them: The great principles, the Bill of Rights, The human right etc. The Republicans constantly use religion to misdirect the intelligence of people within the nation to not support the very principles that protects them from wolves and dragons; If the wily fascist Republicans succeed, America will lose her greatness, however, there are now other young nations capable to achieve it.
diamondpoet
On January 20, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Good article, I just don’t really do politic just God. I believe when it comes to who is in control he will soon provide the answer.
Lee Ness
On January 20, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Excellent article could not agree with more.
Thanks Lee ness
Inna Tysoe
On January 20, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Is it possible that Coakley lost because of stuff like this?
Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2010/01/13/campaigns_brevity_shapes_coakley_image_on_trail/
After all, you have to remember all politics is local around here.
Regards,
Inna
Night Story
On January 21, 2010 at 5:50 am
Well expressed.
jharmon
On January 21, 2010 at 7:39 am
Inna, I’d argue Coakley lost because she didn’t focus upon voters at all, but upon different organizations she hoped would bring her voters. That’s so 1980s. Voters want to know the person they go to the polls for cares about the same things they personally care for, not about their union rep or their boss or other local politicians, etc. Coakley didn’t get in touch enough with the people, the voters, and made herself look like one of the “liberal elite” the Republicans scream so much about.