Carville: Democrats Have a 'Disease'

NewsMax ^ | 1/17/06 | Paul Rodriguez

[dirtboy]

And it'll happen with a new cadre of "challenging candidates" willing to reform Washington down to its core, Carville argues.

Yeah, just like Bill Clinton, who promised the most ethical administration in history and then delivered on his promise.

Not.

Carville seems to make a lot of good points. But they are just as insincere as any other Dem, other than Joe Lieberman, who is willing to take heat to stand up for at least one conviction.

History will show that George Bush was gifted by the arrogance and incompetence of his enemies.

[Brian Allen]

<< Salaries for members of Congress should be $350,000

Actually, it should be $25,000 a year. >>

It should either be a dollar a year plus the reimbursement of the actual, receipted, expenses incurred on getting to and from and staying in DC according to feral-employee rules or, to take Thomas Sowell's advice, a Million Bucks a year and all the way First Class and Five Star.

The first suggestion would attract Constitutionally-oriented representatives and the latter likely a class of person with some actual life and business talent and experience.

Sure be a change from todays failed lawyers and other dismal hacks.

As for Carvile's "Democrats" disease? Yep, they're sick all right. But its their inability to create an idea and/or to experience an original thought that has, thank God, doomed them.

Now, if only we can get a bloody Republican to create an idea and/or to experience an original thought!!

[dirtboy]

Why is NewsMax always falling for this tripe?

Actually, I appreciate NewsMax giving this subject the detail it deserves. We are seeing the chess pieces being placed on the board for the 2008 elections. Pay close attention.

[bellas_sister]

bump for later

[Starboard]

they stand for too much and that it doesn't fit into America," he says.

Well, in that case the Dems have a terminal problem. They are elitists and superiorists who deeply believe they know what's best for everyone. They can't help themselves from piously pontificating on everything and telling everyone how to live. That ain't gonna change.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Carville is exactly right. Read what he says..he makes a coherent argument which is why the democRATS base will never listen to him."

I agree. I've heard him speak, and James knows his stuff. And it works equally as well for either side of the isle. He really is in the wrong party at the wrong place and the wrong time in history.

I've read his books, looking for ideas as to what would work best on some of our local, REPUBLICAN campaigns as far as message and media positioning; I wouldn't dismiss his ideas out of hand.

[wagglebee]

I would go for paying senators and congressmen a very high salary AND putting term limits in place.

[Paladin2]

The 'Rats have AIDS?

[RichInOC]

I'd take this more seriously if Jim Carville weren't so much the poster child for just the kind of hatefulness he's criticizing here, if he weren't so much the role model for the media strategy of the post-Clinton Democratic Party. Jimmy, this is the party Bill and Hillary and you and Paul Begala and all the other little imps made. You now look foolish complaining that it looks like hell.

[realpatriot]

"We think the problem with the party is anatomical,"

Thunder Thighs?

[ErnBatavia]

John Boy is still having a love affair with the sun lamp.

That's a skanky looking orange cast he has to his-self...wonder if it's ManTan ointment.

[Redbob]

"It makes me wonder who's running the show over there,..."

Why, the inmates, of course!
If we still had loony bins, NObody would vote Dimocratic!

[farlander]

America should shift to much more use of nuclear power and even drill in the ANWR if need be.

I think ELF/ALF/PETA/Sierra just put a contract out on Carville. I think they'd fall over themselves to sink any Dem candidate that said this.

New Orleans should become the first "Green City" in America, making it a showcase of what can be done.

An even more collosal failure of the socialist welfare state. I can just see BILLIONS spent on mass transit that noone uses.

... Progressive Patriotism...

Is that what we're calling treason and hate of america and what it stands for now ?

Whatever, Carville. A decade late and about a mile short.

[farlander]

Actually I think it has to do with the size of the opening(s) where the hot air/methane comes out of...

[SteveMcKing]

Carville is exactly right.

He is "right", but he it disingenuous.

Once elected, democrats will not support any conservative decision on guns, abortion, or environmental policies. Nor will half of republicans, it seems.

He is right, but he is lying through his teeth about his intentions. NewsMax is being suckered.

[packrat35]

"You hear a Democratic speech and you hear that 'I stand for a woman's right to choose, a person's right to health care, a nationalist foreign policy, a cleaner environment,'" Carville says.

Such lists just "produces a litany" of ideas that "sounds like something we're for. But it doesn't mean anything."

He's got that part right.

[Alex Murphy]

"We actually believe, and we have a chapter in [the book] on it, that the Democrats should embrace what we call 'Progressive Patriotism.' We should wrap ourselves in the flag just like Republicans have done so successfully post-9/11 and even back to 1994 when House Republicans developed their "Contract with America."

Carville then donned the newly proposed "official uniform of the Democratic Party", and unfurled the proposed flag...

[Criminal Number 18F]

It's already over $350,000 a year, as on top of the Congressional salary, which puts the in the top one half of one percent of American earners, there's an even larger Travel Allowance, and an almost million dollar staff allowance, etc. Not to mention the graft they all take from lobbyists.

Some Congressmen come as middle class, but they all leave Congress -- even one-termers -- as millionaires. Most of them are totally dedicated to lining their own pockets.

The Republicans are just as crooked as the Democrats ever were. The two guys contending for DeLay's old job are both grifters -- Boehner is known as "Mr K Street" for his coziness with lobbyists, and Blunt ditched his wife of thirty years for a K Street bimbo, a small contribution from the tobacco lobby. If these guys are the leaders of the Republicans, the Democrats can't be that much worse.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[colorado tanker]

Carville's right, but hardly original. MoveOn.org liberalism cannot garner a majority, hasn't since 1964. Old Labour had the same disease. Clinton and Blair figured out how to win by trying to take the middle ground away from their conservative parties. It's amazing the Dims have already forgotten the lesson.