or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Began Contemplating Leaving Our Worthless Party. With 'leaders' like this, we are so screwed. Read on...
This piece from the Hill is very telling about how naive and gullible the luminaries of the Democratic Party think us rubes really are. David Sirota discussed this today at huffingtonpost.com, but left out this money quote from Kendrick Meeks
The healthcare proposals are a "really good start," he said, but any promises that the next Congress would enact the healthcare plans "at even the beginning of next year to mid-next year would really be political talk at this point.
Basically, in normal English that's spoken outside of Washington he's saying 'We're selling you a bullshit bag of goods, but vote for us anyways.' These clowns are basically capitulating on this six months before the damn election!
Yes, I also understand that something as massive health care reform will be a monumental fight and may take years. What I don't understand is why our so-called leaders take such pleasure in pissing on us, the base of the Democratic Party, the ATM that keeps them afloat and gets their message out. And what does their message consist of here? That they really, really want to try to maybe do something possibly about health care, but its just not likely, and if they do go out on a very rickety very shaky limb after an election which just might have given them a mandate to do something, well, at the first sign of adversity they're going to pack it in because its just really tough and dangerous doing the right thing that overwhelming majorities support. Can't be angering the all-important right-wing voters who've never pulled a lever for a Democrat in their fucking lives, nor the pharmaceutical and insurance industries - those are important constituencies, dontchaknow?
I don't know if I can take this any longer. How inept can these people be? Already lowering expectations and more or less saying they'll capitulate at the the drop of a hat? I thought that I couldn't get any more dispirited and disillusioned after this abortion of a primary season, and then I see this. I know its heresy on this site, but its about throw-my-vote-away-for-a-third-party-to-send-message-to-spineless-stand-for-nothing-shit-on-base-Dem
ocratic-leadership time. Once they stop actively trying to subvert their base and actually stand up for the core principles they say they do, I'll come back. Until, then, they can operate without my support.