Did the implant take?
Step one for the Dems...
So here is the first thing the Democrats in Congress have to do if they want to have any credibility. The absolute, rock-bottom, cut-to-the-chase minimum, if they want me to take them seriously.
This is Real Complicated, so bear with me here, please.
Vote as a block.
rinse.
repeat.
repeat.
repeat.
Got that?
there's more...
The first opportunity to demonstrate that newly-implanted backbone is coming right up on Jan 6th, or so, when the Congress will be asked to Certify the results of the Electoral Coll
aege voting. Is there any other message more important than a clear and simple "NO!" from every Democrat in both Houses? Is there any other message that the 56 million of us who voted for John Kerry need to hear more than that clear "NO!" from every Congressional Democrat, standing together before us and the whole world? Is there any other message that the rest of the world needs to hear more than an explicit announcement that there exists an
Opposition in the United States?
And finally, is there any clearer and simpler a message that we, all of us who believed that hope/help is on the way, could be sending to our Congresscritters and the Party than the demand that they all stand up together? We need to shout it out from the rooftops and flood the mails, phones, faxes and media with this for the next two weeks. Bloggers could demonstrate this alien concept of unity by all putting this demand at the top of their Main Page
It's so simple and basic, that even the Republicans have managed to figure that out. Can the Democrats? We need to help them understand how it works.