Comments on: Democrats announce plans to hold off on agenda until after 2036 elections

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:18:33 +0000

@ Batocchio: You’re right (or correct) — they are anything but ‘moderate.’ The country has been dragged so far to the right by the past thirty years of corporate humbug and propaganda that they only appear centrist by comparison.

@ dgun: Instead of slapping the shit out of them, why not just give the Teabaggers, Birther cranks, Beck buffs and panting Palinites their own state? (Texas comes to mind — they’re halfway down the drain anyway.) Of course, we’d have to remove all military equipment from whatever state it is — can’t let these cream ymoonpies have a tank or nuclear-armed jet — and no more tax money from the rest of the US. Bye, bye, you’re on your own, drop us a postcard sometime. They can have a place with no taxes, no government, and live out in the open pooping in a bucket since they don’t want to pay for sewers, just what they want. (Or maybe they’ll get Rick Perry as their dictator, which would serve them right. “Sieg heil, Gov. Good Hair!”) But I think we’d have to build a wall around the place, just to keep ut the fleeing immigrants looking for work.

By: dgun

dgun — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:28:01 +0000

The plan is this: win election, then spend 2 years posturing for the next election.

Don’t force your agenda, even though you have the votes to do so. Can’t run the risk of being labeled a liberal, although no matter what you do you will be labeled a liberal. Let’s not make the people we oppose the slightest bit uncomfortable with policy, because when they win in 2 years, and Lord knows they will, we want them to play nice. To play nice like they did a few years back when they had the House/Senate and Presidency.

Let’s make no distinction between being considerate of the minority Party and kowtowing and groveling to them.

Sometimes reaching across the aisle only produces results when you do so to slap the shit out of somebody.

By: Batocchio

Batocchio — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:17 +0000

Well done!

Don’t worry, come 2036 they’ll offer new excuses, or more likely, recycle the old crap and just change the dates on the talking points. I’m really sick of the Blue Dogs being described by the MSM as “moderate” or “centrist” when in many ways, they’re more conservative than Reagan. That’s in addition to most of them being corrupt, and a high percentage of them being idiotic as well. I just wish more of them were pressed – if you’re really a deficit hawk, why do you give a blank check to military spending? And why do you oppose health care measures that would reduce costs?