Let's be the party of responsibility!!
Now, long after 9/11, noone has been held responsible for ignoring warnings. Michael Isikoff details in Newsweek: "A convicted terrorist was providing U.S. officials with very specific information about a terrorist attack three months before 9/11" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7658468/site/newsweek/
"In the spring of 2001, one of the U.S. government's most valuable terror informants gave the FBI a far more alarming account of Al Qaeda plans to attack inside the United States than has ever been publicly disclosed, according to newly available court documents."
"The fact that Ressam's information was the basis for at least part of the PDB to Bush first became known last year when the 9/11 commission hearings forced the White House to make the long-disputed document public. But it turns out, according to the new court documents, the information from Ressam that was contained in the PDB was watered down and seemed far more bland than what the Algerian terrorist was actually telling the FBI."
Why don't we frame the Dem's as "The Party of Responsibility" - more below
We, as Democrats, must become leaders and as such, take responsibility for our actions......we must not forsake our values...and we mustnot let the GOP label us as anti-moral and anti-religous...anytime, anywhere that the GOP tries that, we need to respond with "RESPONSIBILITY" as our theme...for example, no responsibility for the PDB, for 9/11 intelligence failures, for WMD, for Tom Delay, changing the ethic rules...we need to discuss how we have zero tolerance rules in schools but not for our elected officials, corporate fraud trials all over the place but not for our elected officials, we hear be tougher on criminals but nothing on being tougher on our elected leaders, we must have the Patriot Act but no looking into the elected officials secrets, we obsess over runaway brides but not violations by elected officials...and we must yell time and time again - "is this America, is this what we have become, is this what we want...where are the leaders...our so called leaders, our SCLM and ourselves must take responsibility for our actions...you can talk about morals all you want, but its living morally that matters"
HOW CAN WE DO THIS??? NO ONE LOCALLY FOR THE DEM'S WILL LISTEN, THEY KEEP DOING THE SAME OLD DANCE...HELP!!!