*snicker* "Koko" needs to go to Baghdad for a while to learn how to write some REAL over-the-top flowery battle rhetoric. This little speech makes me visualize some gaunt, bearded ex-hippie shaking his fist.
Here's a new DU post:
I am beyond despondent
As I head off to bed tonight it will be in the knowledge that we were swept in Ohio and probably lost the Senate. When I wrote about what was at stake in this election I meant it. I honestly doubt I will ever cast a meaningful vote for federal government again or atleast for several years. The federal judiciary is literally a lost cause assuming that the trend holds up. That combined with the permanent tax cuts that will soon happen will create a death spiral for liberal activist government. The government will be too broke to pass the programs and even if they do the conservative activist judiciary will overturn them. We will be doomed to the unsatisfying experience of cleaning up the Republican mess as a best case senario.
I also know that civil rights for anyone be they gay. black, Hispanic, or women will be a dead issue on the national stage for many years. I will probably entire my golden years as a second or even third class citizen. I had such hopes when Clinton won and Tsongas ran on a platform of gay rights. I can't believe that was only 10 years ago. Now I can't see even the most basic of rights coming to pass. In Ohio it is even worse if that can be imagined.
I would love a drink now but I know I can't. I will wake up tomorrow and the next day and the day after that. I will go to work, get my car fixed, and do other normal things. I will care again someday soon. But now I just need to pout and sulk. I will work for candidates and issues but tonight I sulk.
"we really need to rebuild the dem leadership. We need to drag them left, and get them stop their compromising on issues. We need to get the lobby groups on our sides. We need to reach out to greens, we need a vast leftwing alliance. We've got 2 years to pick a candidate for president, and I think it would help us to look to unknowns, I mean the less the repubs know about the candidates the better."
That strategy should do the trick...not!
"we really need to rebuild the dem leadership. We need to drag them left, and get them stop their compromising on issues. We need to get the lobby groups on our sides. We need to reach out to greens, we need a vast leftwing alliance. We've got 2 years to pick a candidate for president, and I think it would help us to look to unknowns, I mean the less the repubs know about the candidates the better."
That strategy should do the trick...not!