OK, its no secret: the GOP feels that before people wake up they need to ram as much of their dangerously disastrous agenda into law as possible. And in order to keep up the appearance of not being bullies (which of course we all know
appearance is all the GOP really cares about, aside from trying to destroy America), they need a Democratic face on their shenanigans.
Here is a decent blog entry by Claudia Long of the
Great Divide discussing just that. Basically, the GOP thugs do not want any input on their ideas: they already know exactly what they want. Instead they need the fig leaf of
bipartisanship in order for the public to swallow their pills.
The simple fact of the matter is that the GOP is in control. The least the Dems can do is put up a decent opposition. And as loathe as I am to admit it, that can not be done by writing new, good (relatively speaking of course) legislation, as it would never come out of committee or be stolen and perverted by the GOP. So what do we do? Keep reading below the fold to find out what my modest proposal is...
Basically the plan is this:
No More Bipartisanship!
This means increasing the split in Congress, increasing the partisanship and the vitriol and the spite. Sure, the GOP will spin it as "Obstructionist Democrats" and a whole host of other nasty monickers. But you know what? Fuck them. Lets see the public swallow another tax cut, another disatrous Medicare bill, another "Education Reform" bill, another colonial war without any Democratic votes. Lets see how they will be able to sell Social Security "privatization" without their precious fig leaf.
Look, the divide is already here. The wounds are wide open and working with the bullies is not going to heal them. What we need to do is let the GOP stand on its own so that the Dems can sit back and wait to say "See what they did?" when it all comes crashing down. Working with the other side does not help us: it only marginalizes us and secures our role as the token voice of opposition that still votes for GOP agenda items when the doors are closed. No More!
I am calling on all Congressional Democrats (especially Lieberman that putz) to stop working with the Republicans in the name of bipartisanship! It is time to get off this sinking ship and stop helping it go down.
Take the poll, if you please...