A Vote of No Confidence
How long will it be before we admit that the democratic party does not inspire confidence in this country? This party is responsible for much of the confusion surrounding health care reform and most of what goes with it.
The party is unable to speak with a single voice on the subject and just about everyday they waffle and backtrack and change course as if there is no consensus within the party. They act as though they do not meet to determine the course of action and this leads to a situation where different members say radically different things on the same subject everyday.
In many respects they are somewhat like the GOP with several talking heads and wannabe leaders. They leave loads of doubt and confusion in the public's mouth and hence it's hard to be confident in anything they say.
The DEMS are the reason why the GOP is gathering momentum. They sit back and let the GOP set the talking points and then they lazily seek to defend the,selves, if at all. I suspect that the DEMS will lose quite a few seats in the next election cycle but it will not be because the GOP won them but because the DEMs lost them.
The DEMs just do not inspire confidence in even its most loyal supporters. It's a pity.
The party is unable to speak with a single voice on the subject and just about everyday they waffle and backtrack and change course as if there is no consensus within the party. They act as though they do not meet to determine the course of action and this leads to a situation where different members say radically different things on the same subject everyday.
In many respects they are somewhat like the GOP with several talking heads and wannabe leaders. They leave loads of doubt and confusion in the public's mouth and hence it's hard to be confident in anything they say.
The DEMS are the reason why the GOP is gathering momentum. They sit back and let the GOP set the talking points and then they lazily seek to defend the,selves, if at all. I suspect that the DEMS will lose quite a few seats in the next election cycle but it will not be because the GOP won them but because the DEMs lost them.
The DEMs just do not inspire confidence in even its most loyal supporters. It's a pity.
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Absolutely. Weiner for Prez in 2012 Primary.
September 12, 2009 5:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
"The DEMS are the reason why the GOP is gathering momentum."
- I think this is a rather broad statement.
First of all, a party is not an army. Democrats have the majority for two reasons:
- Republicans fucked up
- Democrats recruited conservative candidates to run in conservative districts
The problem isn't the "big tent", it's the fact that Obama didn't plan for this and doesn't know how to deal with disagreements in his own party.
But the reason Republicans are "gaining momentum", if that's true, has more to do with the fact that key Democrat initiatives are developed and controlled by those elected in the "bluest of the blue" states on both coasts.
So it's not Republican effectiveness, it's the Democratic ineffectiveness.
September 12, 2009 10:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
and just about everyday they waffle and backtrack and change course as if there is no consensus within the party
Well, that is because there is no consensus within the party.
Do you have any suggestions as to how consensus within the party could be achieved?
September 12, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink