And their self-fulfilling prophesies. Remember how surprised everyone was when we won in 2006? They were saying the same defeatist crap then.
Get off your asses. Do voter registration, knock on doors and get people to the polls. The only problem we have is low turnout, and if we change that, it overrides everything else — including the gerrymandered districts. We’ve done it before.
People don’t like Republicans anymore. It might be useful to remind them.
Fuck these Democrats, but get off your asses and work to get them reelected?
Well, so many Democrats are like Republicans these days it’s hard to get excited. Furthermore, there’s no coordinated Democratic political discipline, policy plan, messaging effort, legislative agenda. It’s like the head of the Democratic party isn’t really unhappy with these results and doesn’t really care. And when you have DCCC chief Debbie Wasserman-Schultz practically throwing a perfectly good congressional district to Republican “friend” Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, why bother to donate, register, canvass or vote for Republican Lite™? Why should I vote for school teacher union busters Rahm Emmanuel, NY Gov. Cuomo, or CT Governor Dannel Malloy? Should I really get excited if Senator Chuck-15% capital gains tax and sponsor of the next war in the middle east-Schumer (R? D?-NY) takes a fall ? How many tears should I shed if Diane Feinstein, whose husband is busy dismembering the postal service, should lose her ability to pretend she’s providing competent oversight on the NSA? Maybe fuck them all.
If Dems win back the house they won’t have a convenient excuse for not doing shit for the American people. In the Great Kabuki that is American politics, voters must be disabused of the idea that touting great policy isn’t implementing great policy. The 1%’s handmaidens will have to reintroduce the filibuster in the Senate so they could whine, “What can we do? Blah, blah, blah, obstructionism. Blah, blah, bipartisanship.” If they can’t lose fair and square, they have to throw the race.
Dems had their chance in 2008-2010 and Steny Hoyer and the blue dogs blew it, they shit the sheets with Harry Reid. Emptied their bowels and rolled around in it. Congratulations gentlemen!
That’s what they’re afraid of. They’re happier being the minority.