first they quote Dole in his concession
"On Nov. 4, 1992, the day after Bill Clinton beat George H.W. Bush by 5 percentage points and 202 electoral votes, this was the first thing out of Sen. Bob Dole's mouth:
"57 percent of the Americans who voted in the presidential election voted against Bill Clinton, and I intend to represent that majority on the floor of the US Senate."
He finished his remarks with:
"I think [Clinton] got some good news and some bad news last night... "
...The good news is that he's getting a honeymoon in Washington. The bad news is that Bob Dole is going to be chaperone.
With that fighting attitude, the GOP stymied the centerpiece of Clinton's agenda, health care, and took over Congress in two years."
he compares that to the two Democrats on the Sunday shows:
"Compare that attitude with what was displayed by the lone Dem on the Sunday shows, Sen.-elect Barrack Obama. From NBC's Meet The Press:
...one of the things I told the president was that we all have a stake in seeing him have a successful presidency.
I don't think that the Democrats succeed by rooting against the president in office.
But we have to be honest where we disagree with him and he's got to make his case where he's presenting issues that we're skeptical about.
It's not just Obama showing softness. This is the party line.
Here's House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in the weekly radio address:
I hope that in this term President Bush will fulfill his promise to be a uniter, not a divider.
A new term is indeed a new opportunity to bring America together.
House Democrats stand ready to work with the President.
Despite our divisions, there are many places where we should be able to agree.
Granted, both Obama and Pelosi went ahead to explain some areas of potential disagreement.
But the overarching tone and message of conciliation is just wrong, wrong, wrong."
read entire article at: www.liberaloasis.com
THEY HAVE THE RIGHT IDEA. They end with: "What is potentially lethal is to be obstructing because of craven politics and not noble principle.
And what is also potentially lethal is ceding fight after fight, because then you clearly don't stand for any principles at all (and that's what happened in 2002).
Obama and Pelosi had the opportunity this weekend to tell the nation what our noble principles are, and how those principles will be guiding the fights that lie ahead.
They didn't.
Unless leading Dems to do so, quickly, it will much harder to win those fights.
Let's take a page from Bob Dole and Karl Rove's playbook... hit hard, hit often and never let up. We did the "nice democrats" taking the "high road" for two catastrophic elections now.... GET RID OF THE DNC, DLC AND ALL THAT MODERATE BULL SHIT.... it has gotten us no where. If the Democrats don't grow some balls this year, they're going to lose a lot of us who gave thousands of dollars and hours to the Democratic party.