"I give up"

[mahnmut]

Despite Anthony Weiner's passion and a clear majority, the House Republicans defeat a bill providing health care for 9/11 first responders."

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[underlankers.livejournal.com]

This is why the Republican Party should be down on its hands and knees in thanks that it's up against the Democrats. A serious political party with actual party discipline would run roughshod over these motherfuckers. But instead the Democrats are well....the Democrats.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

Pussies, right? :-))

Bipartisanship my ass.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

No, actually as above the Dems have the harder task. Their base includes a bunch of groups discriminated against and the only commonality these groups really have is said discrimination. American Muslims are wealthy religious types with values that would fit right in with the other religious conservative movement but they very logically vote Democratic because today's Conservatives to put it bluntly hate everyone who "looks Arabic."

For another example the Democratic Party has as its bases groups like women, who can have vastly different interests when one blends ethnicity in, blacks who are always the US Chew Toy, the LBGT Alphabet soup which has its own problems.....they need a William F. Buckley and they've no such figure at present. So I don't envy Howard Dean or Barack Obama their tasks with regards to the Democratic Party base.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

The downside of being so diverse is that it's not easy to organize like you said. The upside is that there's potentially more room for expansion and inclusion of even more groups, while the GOP is mostly hovering around using its maximum capacity. Very effectively indeed, but still too confined within its self imposed frames.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Right, and that is a downside. However a sufficiently charismatic individual of a slightly different bent than President Obama, who is a moderate Right Wing conciliator like Bill Clinton was, could blend these movements together and then their combined punch *would* negate the GOP as it's already doing that to itself.

This is why I was really pro-Hillary back in the primaries because Mrs. Clinton knows how to hogtie people into effectiveness. Our current President is a Right-Wing conciliator against a movement he'll never be able to satisfy and inexplicably keeps trying to reach the unreachable.