Christine Pelosi addresses our dilemma and the choices aren't pretty.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
It is not in our nature to accept top-down edicts. As President Clinton often observed: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans want to fall in line" -- yet there he was asking Democrats to fall in line.
Knowing you folks so well after spending hours with you every day, I can say with unbridled certainty that "it ain't gonna happen."
We don't do "fall in line." It's not in our DNA, particularly when it's sacrificing a basic Democratic principal. Tax cuts for the rich just seems one step too far, zigs and zags and pushes people out of line.
As for "Falling in love", that didn't work, we tried it.
So, where does that leave us? Are we to be sentenced to a life of floating around in the blogosphere, A virtual "A Man/Woman without a country"?
Pelosi says:
My email inbox is replete with laments from Democrats -- particularly young people -- who've slept on floors, donated time, put themselves on the line to stop the concentration of wealth and power to the top 2 percent. I hope they'll engage with the same respect they want -- we all want -- from our leaders. They want to know that Washington is still listening to them; that they can contribute to this debate for a better way for our president, our party, and our country to move forward.
If passing START, passing DADT, passing DREAM act were assured, perhaps the poison pill would go down a little easier.
"Throw me a bone" is where I'm at. Frick, it doesn't even have to be a T-Bone...throw me an ordinary soup bone, a run of the mill short rib...something to chew on while I watch the Republicans feast at the banquet table. Maybe even throw the 99ers a bone?
P.S. A nice pat on the head wouldn't hurt either.