The people who post on DK worked for and contributed to Democratic congressional candidates, and we helped them win their seats. They will need our support in their next elections. Therefore we have the right to make demands on Democratic representatives and senators that they use the same uncivil tones (they regularly use back home in their own local campaigns when facing a challenge) to defend President Obama from the concerted attack the right wing has been perpetrating since before the Inauguration.
I cannot decide if I am more frustrated with the right wing blowhards and lairs than with the mistakenly polite stances taken by the Democrats in congress when they appear on television. It is as if each is auditioning for the position of diplomat, professor or Miss Congeniality. Geez, I have seen each of them become vicious when their own backs were up against the wall. Do they fail to realize that their own fate is tied to Obama’s success as well as how the apathetic majority who decides elections perceives him?
I want to see them calling Beck a liar and an idiot. I want to hear them take on their Southern thug-colleagues and out them to the "independents" who in truth are just apathetic idiots who need to be spoon fed the truth that the Republicans are mindless tools and clowns who have their own interests at heart and do not give a fig for the rest of us. Instead of kissing butt in the name of the Senate’s traditions and thereby lending credibility to the Southern thugs, our leaders should call the Southern Republicans "stupid," "selfish," "schemers," "unpatriotic," "puppets of corporate donors," and "agents" of the fringe, brain-dead loonies who are robots programmed by their diabolical-self-promoting church leaders. Just think to yourself of the prominent Republicans in congress, and tell me that none of those adjectives apply.
I do not want to witness another leader in the Democratic party conceding that Blue Dogs are anything other than con men who are interested in getting votes from the "swing state voters" who are just the intellectual cousins of the brain dead right wingers who elect the Republicans; and the record shows the Blue Dogs are motivated by the corporations that fund their election campaigns. Let the Blue Dogs pander to the dopes in their local populations. Nothing the real Democrats say about them will hurt their chances for reelection, and in fact, if the Blue Dogs are correct in their perceptions of what their own voters want, the reral Democrats will be helping them with each insulting truth they utter.
It is time to see our leaders smash the reputations of the hypocrites that permeate the current Republican party. Our leaders should be spouting how the same right wingers in congress who now harp on fiscal conservatism gave Bush a blank check, voted in lock step, and defended the very policies that got the Democrats elected.
Why you may ask do I advocate that Democrats become brutal, adopt a Rambo, take-no-prisoners approach? The answer is simple. The Democrats will love it, and will get the transfusion of spirit that has been drained away after Bush & Company were kicked out of Washington. More importantly, the middle of the road voters, who are misnamed "independents" when they should properly be called "political ignoramuses" know zero about the substantive terms of any issue or pending legislation, and decide on whom they will support by which candidate looks like a winner in the debate. These are the people who in focus groups caused the television programmers to put on reality shows and who will be reading tabloids and celebrity magazines when the New York Times runs out of real estate to hock to stay in business; and who think watching a professional football game every Sunday is sufficient to satisfy their need for culture.
The "independents" are the same folks who like to gawk and watch fist fights and brawls. They also align themselves against the underdog becasue in our time, nothing is worse to them than supporting a loser.They knew more about the "Obmam Girl" videos than what Obama's positions were. He looked like a winner against the hapless McCain, and he got their votes. Now, with nobody fighting fire with fire when Obamam is under attack, he looks like a loser, and they are drifting to the source of the attacks. Hence, Democrats in congress need to make the right wingers the underdogs in congress and their media noise factory by outing their patent selfishness and flakiness by being specific, naming names and pulling no punches.
If the Democrats in congress do their job, Obama can stay above the fray as he is genetically predisposed to do. But since the Democratic members of congress use the harsh confrontational approach in their own elections, they will not suffer. In fact, they will be viewed as heroic knights worthy of our allegiance and support in their individual contests.