It's one thing to understand something intellectually, it's quite another to get it in a gut sense. What we get is that the Republicans are trying to beat us by continual obstruction. What we don't seem to have gotten in our gut is that our emotional reaction is part of what the Republicans have been trying to create, part of how they win.
Dissent from the Obama or Washington Democratic Party line isn't the problem. It's the lack of discipline in terms of our emotions. Or in terms of the direction of our emotions.
Look, we've been just handed a golden opportunity. Not only are the Republicans holding Middle Class tax cuts hostage now, they are also holding every bit of important legislation we're trying to get done now hostage as well. They're holding DADT hostage, they're holding unemployment benefits hostage. Take your fucking pick. But who do we go after?
That's right, ourselves, the Democrats, Obama.
Who are the bloody spineless Democrats now? This is a perfect opportunity to stuff the Republican's party of no attitude back down their throats after two years of them stuffing it down ours.
This is a perfect opportunity to start the Republican Congress unpopular, and burdened with a public that is openly hostile to its policies and its obstructionism, a public which will throw control back to us in 2012 because they have gotten a pretty bitter taste of just how much worse the Republicans are. Even if they only consider our party the lesser of two evils, it's not going to be a bad thing if the Republicans come off as callous and malignant as Lords of the Sith.
Of course, that's an opportunity just as long as you can dump the moronic inferiority complex that keeps you attacking your own people. How can we ask these people to go and fight the republicans if we won't even show up to man the front lines of the fight?
The Republicans have declared war on bipartisanship. Make them pay. Republicans have openly declared their intent to produce gridlock, over tax cuts for millionaire no less. Make them pay for it.
They have told an American people looking for action on important matters, looking to move forward on policy that they have absolutely no intent of letting things in Washington work until they get their deficit-bloating way.
God, if your first impulse is to attack Democrats over this, you need your head checked. Take the fight to the bloody enemy who is making it ridiculously easy for us to demonize them. We have been handed the baseball bat, people. Let's not be so spineless that we don't take a swing, or so stupid as to smash ourselves in the leg with it.