Is it safe yet for dems to stop playing it safe?

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For some time it has been (and I have said it myself) "We shouldn't do X so that we can win the next election" so we back off progress so as not to offend the swing voters"

Now maybe playing it safe DID help us win last election. Maybe it will help with the next. Then the mid terms will be coming up, and we need not to be too radical lest we lose power in congress. Then once we win those midterms, we do it again for the next presidential election....and on and on it goes.

I prefer the dems in power, I have and will continue to vote for my party - but I also said before I won't cut them any more slack than I have the rethugs. We pay em, we work to get them in office, they had best do what we put them there to do or they will be out of a job - either by us finding more real liberals to replace them or by voter apathy and people asking 'what's the difference, where's the beef?'

Praise for the progress, scorn for the crap.

Playing it safe for your own job's sake is not serving, claiming you are doing it for the betterment of the party is sad at best.

Compromise means only more and more deaths of our soldiers and the Iraqi people. It is just supposed to feel better for us as it happens.

bush needs money for halliburton...err the troops. The war goes on. And on. And now voters can point to our party and say - what ya bitching about, you voted for the IWR and you voted to keep funding it.

The democrat party needs an exit strategy from the mess it is making, and while they keep floundering for one they want us to keep the funds flowing to them - or else all is lost.

Maybe we should cut off their funding until they cut off the war's.

And maybe we ourselves are not so different than our elected leaders. We won't cut off funding, and they won't either.

[jgraz]

1. Here's the problem with that

We're not the main funders of the Democratic party. Until that happens, we have pretty close to zero pull with these corporate puppets.

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2. Agreed - BUT

we are the ones doing the grunt work day in and out to help get them elected.

A strike perhaps ;)

[jgraz]

4. If that would work, I'd do it in a second

But my guess is they won't notice until they've lost congress back to the Repukes. My current thought is to work to oust Reid as majority "leader".

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7. A good thought

We can't tackle an entire team, but we can root out the problem player(s) and hope for change there.

[AlCzervik]

3. a big part of why the Democrats won was in not being republicans.

and we aren't a PAC so we have no power, all we can do is continue to overload their phone lines and email accounts and not donate.

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6. And how damn sad is that????

I thought I party was supposed to be different.

I think the party is myself - it's just that some of those in it are not really all that different in the regards you mention.

[AlCzervik]

8. republicans along with some deomcrats brought war, The democratic majority

was elected to bring the peace. And you know what the worst thing is, they knew this was coming up and i bet they knew they'd never have the votes to get it through to override a veto.

[cynatnite]

5. I'm about ready to cut off my funding for the dems....

It's only a few bucks when I can afford it. I'm so damn pissed right now I don't want them to have one dime of my money.

[jgraz]

9. Unless your name is Chevron, they probably won't care

Sad but true. :banghead: