"MAKE DEMOCRATS BE DEMOCRATS

Since last year's election, there's been a plethora of analyzers and pontificators asking this question: What's wrong with the Democrats?"

The party has to move to the right, or get more religious, or change its rhetoric, they say. Hogwash. What the Democratic Party has to do is learn how to be Democrats again. This means standing up unequivocally for working families, the middle-class, and the poor, as well as standing forthrightly against the corporate powers running roughshod over this workaday majority of Americans."

I'd vote for him.

"The growing chorus of voices demanding a pull-out should seriously alarm the Bush Administration. For President Bush and his team are repeating the failure of Vietnam - failing to craft a realistic and effective policy, and in its place, simply demanding that the American people show resolve. Resolve alone isn't enough to mend a flawed approach. If the Administration won't adopt a winning strategy, then the American people will be justified in demanding that the Administration bring our troops home."

....he doesn't call for a withdrawl timetable. I can't take seriously any "Democrat" who sticks with the tired and failed approach of calling on Bush to do a better job of turning the sow's ear into a silk purse -- or is he trying to put lipstick on a pig?

Speaking of NeoDems, it seems that Harold Ford is at it again....

http://getridofthedlc.blogspot.com/2005/08/harold-fords-love-for-president.html

HAROLD FORD'S LOVE FOR THE PRESIDENT

Really, dear cousins, you have got to stop sending me this; http://thepeskyfly.blogspot.com/...drivel from your local newspaper http://www.memphisflyer.com, the Memphis Flyer, about the man who represents your district. It's bad enough that I live in California and have a man who's nickname is "The BoobenGrabber" as governor who got the job because there was enough GOP money to can Gray Davis, but to deal with this jackass? As if his voting record on the Bankruptcy Bill, Medicare, School Vouchers, and anything else detrimental to your district, isn't enough. Rosalind Kurita may be the lesser of two evils here...and forget about ethnicity, because the representative you have is an African-American IN NAME ONLY! (That and his facial features, although yellow, but with a distinctly African slant...but I digress)
Now, you're sending me things from the Memphis Flyer that clearly indicates you need a new Congress Critter in 2006, and no way in hell do you allow the current Congress Critter to get to Bill Frist's Senate seat in 2006.
"I love my President. I love him personally..."
Do I hurl my vanilla soy chai latte now or later, cause the text of his speech at the University of Memphis Law School this past Saturday, should be enough where Mel Watt revokes his Congressional Black Caucus Membership Card without needing a majority of votes. It should be enough that Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi bans him from any leadership posts in the House, should a miracle occur and the Democrats take back the party.
Because if the Democratic Party is relying on the likes of one Harold Eugene Ford, Jr., to regain party majority in Congress, we may as well surrender to one party domination for the next millenium.
Another reason why the DLC has GOT TO GO.....

Some might quibble whether it's conservative or corporatist, but what matters is that it's solidly against us. Framing it as conservative will put the onus on the media to demonstrate that it's NOT conservative.

I'm still waiting for ONE Senate Dem to back up Sen. Feingold's reasonable call for a withdrawl timetable. But they are as AWOL on that as they were for Black Democrats after the 2000 ripoff.

Put up all the polls you want, but Democrats who don't oppose Bush are going to be beaten just as Cleland and Daschle were and the Repos will hold on to Congress.

http://www.filipino-americans.com/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?url=filamwar.html

It took the United States more than three years to defeat the army of the first Philippine Republic. However, the outcome of the war was never in doubt, mainly because the United States enjoyed tremendous military advantages.

In numbers alone, the U.S. was superior. Although there were only 20,032 enlisted men and 819 officers in the U.S. Expeditionary Force in the Philippines as of January 31, 1899, more troops arrived in subsequent months. By April 16, 1902, more than 120,000 American soldiers had fought or served in the Philippines. Even more superior were the arms used by the Americans, who were well-equipped. U.S. warships were on the coast, ready to fire their big guns when needed.

In contrast, the Filipino arms were a motley of rifles. Some had been supplied by the Americans during the Spanish-American War, others smuggled in by Filipino patriots, seized from the Spanish army, or taken from American soldiers. Artillery was likewise limited. Most of their cannons were captured from the Spaniards. Many Filipino soldiers did not even have guns, but used spears, lances and bolos (big knives) in fighting. Filipino soldiers also lacked military training. They did manage to win some small battlefield encounters, but these only delayed the ultimate victory for the Americans. Their resistance did not arouse public opinion in America against the U.S. military campaigns in the Philippines to the same degree that American public opinion forced the United States to withdraw from the Vietnam War more than 70 years later.

Nevertheless, the United States had to pay a very high price, more than 4,000 American soldiers' lives. One of them was Major General Henry C. Lawton, who was killed in the Battle of San Mateo on December 23, 1899. He was the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in action in the Philippine-American War. The U.S. government also spent about $600 million in all.

Follow up: If your answer is "yes," do you think anyone with such obviously impaired mental capabilities is qualified to preside over a traffic court, much less sit on the highest court in the land for life?

"These are the Democrats who are the difference between House Democrats being in the majority and the minority - they are the people who undermine the vast majority of honest/courageous Democrats who fight for ordinary people in Congress everyday. They are the ones who make it consistenly impossible for Democrats to deliver a message that they are the party that stands up for ordinary working people in this country. The fact is, if Democrats are going to be in the minority for the forseeable future, it would be better if these folks were defeated, because they do more harm than good to a party that desperately needs unity to let America knows what it stands for."

Sirota

And we've got 15-20 bad apples in the Senate too who the Dem Party would be better off without. But then, they're the ones like Cleland and Daschle who the Repos target and knock off in each election (They think pissing on their fellow Dems will get them Repo votes, but it doesn't and only alienates liberals who should be eager to vote Democratic, but stay home instead.)

It would better if we could challenge and beat these Republidems (or Demoblicans) in their primaries with good Dem candidates rather than having the Repos do our dirty work for us and get one of theirs in office as a reward.