I don't make a lot of post because there are some pretty sharp cookies at KOS that do a really tremendous job. That being said.... I have a thought that has been pinging in my brain since my last trip to DC. If the democrats really want to be heard they should get out of the capital building and make their way to the Washington Monument, the Vietnam Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial.... all those wonderful symbols of freedom.
They should bring with them a soap box and a bull horn. They should stand there and filibuster to the wind. I can only imagine the crowds that would eventually gather as Kennedy, Fingold, Biden, Clinton, O'Bama, Reid, Schumer, Kerry, Murtha, Pelosi, Boxer.... you know, the guy and gals who are supposed to be speaking the same language we are.
SO TO ALL THE SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN LOOKING FOR OUR SUPPORT I SAY........
Stop complaining that the press is not covering what you are saying..... say it louder. Find another forum and don't leave until you get the ears of the public. Grab a soapbox and stand in the rain, snow, sleet or hail and tell the people on the street what you have to say. The press will come and the press will have to listen, they will have to report.
The skeptical you create can not be ignored and will highlight the crushing weight that hovers over each of your vocal chords. You are our voice damnit..... shout and be heard, stop whispering. Hell, when the capital police come to drag you away for violating some inane ordnance that violates your free speech, they'll at least report what it is you are saying.
You Democrats are too quiet at a time when they need to be getting very loud. It can't just be the folks at KOS, and Move-On that bring the only validity to these arguments. You elected officials cannot just sit around and hope that people think the republicans suck so bad that democrats will win by default. Isn't that what happened in 2000 and 2004? Gore let himself be handled into silence and Kerry couldn't shut up long enough to make a meaningful point. But the press controlled the story and the story never got out.
Rolling over on this damn detainee act is shameful. Rolling over on the NSA abuses is shameful. Oh by the way, don't you think it is time to revoke this act that Bush seems to think gives him unlimited power before he starts another conflict that we will be forced to deal with for the next 50 years.
If you are waiting to see the whites of their eyes, open yours, they are staring us all in the face. These guys are going to get real mean, real soon. Turn up the volume and control the cycle.... don't wait for the week before the election..... the time is NOW. First one to the Washington monument, I will personally get in my car, drive up there and stand by your side.... you would be surprised how many others will join you also. Soap Box politics is the cornerstone of free speech.
So, next Sunday when they shut you all out of the talk shows, yet one more week...... get out there with a bull horn and just start stating your case. You say you have a message, you say you have a plan.... I believe you; but you already have my support. If the press won't cover you without an angle.... give it to them. Wow, wouldn't that be a news cycle; a elected democrat on every corner, Wow... what a story?????