I have read diary after diary complaining about the vile rhetoric of the teabagging G No P and why don't the shrinking violet Dems push their successes?
The tea bagging G No P is nothing if not consistent. They keep doing the same things over and over expecting a different result. And they haven't been getting it. Please follow me below for the rest of my diary.
We have been here before. In the summer of 08, there were terrorist fist jabs and birtherism and the sliming of Rev. Wright and a whole church community. Failin' Palin swore Obama was "palling around with terrorists." Hate filled protests complete with gun toting idiots fearing for their loss of second amendment rights. Candidate Obama was deemed "unelectable".......The polls were giving us bad news......things looked bleak for the Dems, especially when Failin Palin started spewing her lies around and supposed gaining "grassroots" support. "Why didn't we nominate Hillary?" we cried.
But he won. He won with votes to spare. A collective sigh of relief came from all of us who worked so hard and from the majority of the nation sick of Bush and his driving the country into the ground. A new day was dawning!
Then came the summer of 2009, there were tea bagging rallies complete with the same gun toting idiots, demanding that government was bad but keep your hand off my Medicare. That government run health care was bad.....but keep your hands off my Medicare. And yes, the so called "grassroots" were heavily funded by the Kochs and other corporatist interests. There were lies of death panels and innuendos of bad coverage and waiting lines.....as if what we have now was so great. Things got ginned up to a fever pitch. Ohnoes!! The polls were giving us bad news. The so-called experts said it was dead. The tea bagging G No P swore that health care was going down! Down, I tell you! Things looked bleak for the Dems.
But Health care survived...yes with serious wounds (and yes some of those wounds were self inflicted,but that's another diary). But it survived and became law. A law that can be amended and the Public Option is NOT dead if we don't want it to be.
In the summer of 2010, corporations and banks are now un-patriotically playing chicken with the populace...they would rather have the no regulation tea bagging G No P in power so no money for middle class job creation...nope,not today. When the House sends great bills that could begin to bring decency and honor back to those without jobs for so long......the tea bagging G No P in the Senate just stall and stall and stall. Just evil. (Side note: How does Harry Reid get off in telling the Prez to be more forceful? But I digress.) When a bill to send money to the community banks to help small businesses is held up by the rethugs... but the rethugs crow "Where are the jobs?" as they are doing their level best to kill any job creation. When Big Biz and banks would rather invest overseas than with the people they need to sell their merchandise to. No patriotism there, you betcha. Where is the Buy American First mantra? I can tell you Ed Shultz promotes American made products on his radio show and Glenda Breck does not. Who is more honorable or puts America first?
Anyway,things look bleak for the home team. Just like the past two summers. The polls are giving us bad news. The polls say we should give up. The polls say the rethugs will take over in HUMONGOUS numbers. I remind you that the polls are not our friends. They have been wrong and suffer from push polling and suspect sampling in several instances. The G NO P SPECIALIZES in VOTER SUPPRESSION. The G NO P have nothing so they push conspiracy theories ....like what happened to Clinton (remember he was re-elected for a second term, albeit with a G No P congress. We so do not NEED that. This country would grind to a total halt).
So-called 'experts' are saying we will lose 47 seats in the House and 8 or 9 in the Senate. Well, we don't need a G No P congress. The tea bagging G No P would just complete the hit job on Americans.
There are valid arguments asking why don't the Dems tout their own successes more? And yes, they do have a lot to promote, however they let the rethugs frame their successes and we ALL know the rethugs like to turn your strengths in to weaknesses, and project their faults onto others. Why don't they point out the tea bagging G No P for the un-American trash talking seditious undermining and treasonous vermin they are?
The summer of 2010 has been hell. So will the next summer and the next and the next. Get over it, it's what the G No P does and will do. Cut them off at the knees, people. I suggest to you that WE do the talking on October 2 and afterward. Get your posters and signs ready that say all the things the shrinking violet Dems are not saying. We need jobs, not tax cuts for the wealthy!!
Please turnout to the rally in DC in large numbers. They say the Dems lack enthusiasm....we need to shut that mess down by turning out and being vocal to anyone who will listen. Especially if they have a mike!!!! We need the You Tube videos, the blogs, and those in the media that have our backs. We can build our mojo, and perhaps put more starch in a few more Dem spines...but we do need to show the nation that we have been here before. And the tea bagging G No P will NOT win....again.
Thanks for reading. Please rally either in DC if you can, or in your own area, if you cannot. It's past time for a real groundswell by the real grassroots. Scream. Be heard. Write LTE's. Don't back off when your "conservative" friends spread lies. Speak up!!And vote for more better Dems.