The people have woken up, and given us the OPPORTUNITY to show them we can lead.
If we go back to pork barrel spending, and lobbyists writing bills, we won't hold anything.
If we refuse legitimate attempts to build bridges and end the worst of the partisan bickering, we will keep nothing.
If all we do is settle scores we keep nothing. Yes there are some MAJOR F-UPS we must fix and I mean RIGHT NOW. But if we throw our weight around and gloat, and don't change anything about the way the government works, all of our effort is wasted.
Many of the Kossacks seem to have contact with people who will be making decisions that WILL define the fate of our party and our country for a very long time to come.
We have rekindled the flame of democracy, but if we piss on it, it goes out again, and we might not get a second chance to fix this mess.
I WANT TO BE PROUD TO BE AMERICAN AGAIN. To do that, we need to say, loud and clear to our winners tonight, at all levels, DON'T F UP WHAT WE WON.
There are a thousand and one ways our leaders can lose what we have won tonight. To make a difference we have to fundamentally change the way the game is played. Real reasoned differenced both with-in the party and with the opposition mush be respected, tolerated, and even welcomed. Lies and political games on BOTH sides MUST BE ruthlessly put down and prosecuted.
A lot of the anger at the thugs was because they truly thought they did not have to honor anything. The lies, the bribes the power with NO RESTRAINT. If we repeat that cycle, the voters get ever more cynical and this country still dies.
We as a party have to be bigger men (women too). Call the thieves thieves, the liars liers, and the criminals get thrown in a cell. But the Republicans that honestly try to do what they believe is the right thing, must learn that we will work with them. Not kowtow, not give things away, but also not say you are not welcome when the issues are debated.
I have always felt the nation as a whole is well to the left of where the voters have seemed to be, but if we want a functioning country that can become the leader and role model we once were, we can not shut out the voices that oppose the majority. Those voice have always been the STRENGTH of our nation. It is our signal virtue, and as we let the thugs destroy that, starting with McCarthy if not before, we have lost stature power and moral authority in the world.
Talk to each other. Talk to the party rank and file. Talk to our leaders, talk to our opponents. Together, we can rebuild America and make it a land to be proud of again.
Dance on the graves of the Republicans we beat tonight, and we might just be dancing on our own graves as well.
Now, I say FULL STEAM AHEAD to repeal the sheer horrors this crew of cutthroats and traitors left us with. But we also must face the tough issues. Yes social security is failing because they made it fail, but to rebuild it is going to take actions that are going to be unpopular. We need to stand up and make the unpopular decisions.
Taxes. We need to get the marginal tax rates and capital gains rates back up to levels that support a functioning government. The Thugs are really going to try to make hay out of that. We need to stand up, and refuse to change course. We have many fine economists that can stand up and teach people the difference between a functioning progressive tax structure and VooDoo economics.
WE MUST STAND UP TO THE LOBBIESTS. WE MUST NOT replace the republican snout in the public trough, and replace it with a Democrat one. We must stand up to the false and racist anti-immigrant stance of the thugs and create a functioning immigration policy.
There is much more. Yes these things cover a lot of ground. But if there is any hope for America we are the last one, and we have to have the spine to stand up and make that hope a reality.
And yes, the entire bunch of criminals that put us in a foreign land we had no business in, that have put us dangerously close to nuclear war with a country that stopped making atomic weapons until the cokehead threatened them, are all tried as the traitors they are. Our solders have volunteered to defend our nation. We MUST stop killing them to increase Halliburton profits. Anything less spits on the uniforms and the graves of ALL patriots back to the first days of our nation.
We have such a chance, please don't piss it away.