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Democrats, stop serving tepid tea!
Posted by Karen Traeger on Dec 15 2010
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Democrats, stop serving tepid tea, being deficit hawks, shying away from the effective but insufficient economic stimulus, and affordable health care for all, forgetting why you’re Democrats. As Republicans discovered years ago, you don’t win by “me-tooing” the other party. If people go for the other party’s policies, they’ll go for the real thing, not the meek me-too.

Democrats need to hammer at a simple truthful message:

(1) The deficit was caused by Bush’s irresponsibly waging two wars, refusing to pay for them, cutting taxes, especially for the wealthy.

(2) Yes, we added to the deficit because that was the only way to dig out of the Great Recession Bush left to us. The Republicans filibustered, stopping us from doing more to create enough jobs.

(3) Democrats believe government exists to serve the people’s needs – for full employment, retirement security, and affordable health care.

(4) When 27 million more Americans find full-time jobs and become taxpayers, we’ll tackle the deficit.

The Tea Partiers have a seductive message (No government! No taxes!), but it’s wrong. They mean, but seldom say, “No Socialistic Social Security! Tax cuts for the rich! Don’t touch my profits.” Anti-government rhetoric is really a way to put corporate profits ahead of the people’s needs. Democrats should read Jane Mayer’s piece, “Covert Operations,” in the August 30, 2010 The New Yorker documenting how the billionaire Koch brothers are funding the Tea Party Movement. http://www.newyorker.com/8-30-10

Democrats, be proud of who you are.

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Glenavie Norton, ADA Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter	By Unknown on Sep 18 2010 at 2:49 PM
I wholeheartedly agree with Ms. von Euler. It's just extraordinary that Democrats seem incapable of speaking up for themselves or unwilling to talk back to the nonesense being dished out by Republicans and Tea partiers. I think many of us could come up with solid talking points, pointed and to the point, which could be used by Democrats at every opportunity. Why the paralysis? I am puzzled and uncertain how to help motivate our "tepid" Democratic representatives and spokespeople to stand up and speak out. Any thoughts out there?
Wisdom of the Founders	By Unknown on Nov 02 2010 at 11:35 PM
Powerful words from some people that think clearly... pretty much nails it. "How soon we forget history. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -George Washington Thomas Jefferson predicted "happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them". Yet another pertinent and powerful quote from the same great man; "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." The proper role of government is not to grant that which it can never possess, but to protect that which it has so often tread upon. Our founders knew well that a government of men would not, in fact could not, exercise an enduring self restraint. The greatest threat to the American Republic is currently the muddled mass of confused and foreign-born ideologies operating under the rubric of progressivism. These are the acolytes of Environmentalism, Marxism, Globalism, and the like. They favor the redistribution of wealth; out from the hands that produce it, into the gaping mouths that cry the loudest. They loudly proclaim that America's success is the sum total of a series of racist genocides, thefts and other high crimes, without the victims of which the Republic could not stand. Our greatest flaw, they tell us, is the small-minded, myopic and violent way we choose to view the rest of the world. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. -John Adams Progressives marginalize the Founders' ideology - and theology - as the ravings of greedy, racist buffoons, because they must. They absolutely have to rewrite the history, and un-write the religion, that stands in their way. Only by remaking the past can they hope to create the illusory appearance of a plausible foundation beneath the unwieldy, incomprehensible and unsupportable architecture of their impossible future. The end of poverty, of war, even the end of history, is but a misnamed rubric that can only translate to reality as the end of man. This morbid future the progressive applauds because in order to make his new state, he must make a new citizen. And in order to have his new citizen, he must make a new man - this one will not do. The progressive therefore heralds the degradation and destruction of humanity as but an unpleasant step in the right direction, an uncomfortable but necessary component in the architecture of the new machine. To build his machine he must control and magnify the modern apparatus of the State.
	By Unknown on Nov 07 2010 at 7:22 PM
George Washington started the National Bank and the Ratifiers of the Constitution approved it. Thomas Jefferson believed every American adult (in the context of his time probably only meaning white males, but that's the nature of the times he lived in) has the right to vote and has a right to an education so that he might make an informed vote. The whole point of government in the United States is so people might exercise their franchise, vote to free themselves from the chains of property that enslaved people in old absolute monarchist Europe.
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