This is just a brief note to say something about violence at the Tea Party events. First, the violence is despicable. Second, it's unnecessary.
There is no reason for Progressive protesters to be at the Tea Party events. There is nothing to be gained.
Leave them alone.
What should you do?
We still need to hold the financial industry accountable for its fleecing of the public. We need real reform on energy. We need to reform DNDT. etc.
We've got a long way to go.
To make more progress, we need to win elections. We have six months to change the future.
Promote President Obama and the progress towards real reform that was made in the HCR bill. This was a great victory. I think most of us agree that the current reform doesn't go far enough, and that there are many other big battles to be fought and one. We need to realize that HCR barely passed, despite supermajorities. The only way we can move forward is to Hold the House and Break the Filibuster in the Senate.
For those of you who didn't like the last bill? STFU and get to work to change it. If you call it a bad law, you undermine the chance to make it a better law.
Can we do it? Yes we can. We're working uphill against a braindead MSM that wants to follow the horse race, not deal with issues. We need to promote a meme that energizes us and defeats them. That meme is simple.
The Democratic Party is doing its best to govern. The Republicans have been throwing a tantrum. We can't afford to put any more control into the hands of the babies. Elect a grown up!
The Tea Party will do plenty of damage to the Republicans in the primaries. All we have to do is leave them alone and let them do their damage.
Meanwhile, we have to get the message out that more and better reform is possible. We need to energize our base and the middle. The Tea Party is not our base and it's not the middle, and their dangerous. Let's get out there and start building support for the elections in the fall. Pledge your support to help a candidate near you. We have six months to change the future.