We need to communicate more with Tea Partiers

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Thursday April 08, 2010 · 6:18 AM PDT

2010/04/08 · 06:18

No, this is not sarcasm. Before you get too excited and start throwing tomatoes my way, I want to say that I'm aware some Tea Partiers are violent whackos who can't be reasoned with. This diary is not about them. Also, some Tea Partiers are dyed in the wool conservatives who will never budge. This diary is not about them.

However, I think a large chunk the Tea Party is comprised of rational people who defy easy categorization. They are the subject of this diary. Instead of dismissing them and thus further alienating them, we on the Democratic side should (and indeed MUST) make a greater effort to listen to their concerns and communicate our message to them.

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Thank you Leader Reid

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Monday March 22, 2010 · 5:07 PM PDT

2010/03/22 · 17:07

This is just a short diary to thank Leader Reid for all his hard work in making health care reform possible.

He had a very tough and underappreciated job trying to lead 58 Democrats plus Joe Lieberman toward health care reform. That is hard beyond words. Reid had ZERO margin in his numbers to work with, and any one of the senators had a tremendous amount of leverage. In addition, he had to deal with a large proportion of the Senate that was comprised of Blue Dogs.

Second (and I didn't understand this point previously), Reid had to deal with the fact that he didn't have the power to strip people of their committee chairmanships since the chairmanships are Senate positions (and stripping those would have required 60 votes) and not caucus positions.

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