Americas Politics Americas Politics opinions from the left and the right… http://americaspolitics.com Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:23:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Save the party, save the country? Yep. http://americaspolitics.com/2010/02/04/save-the-party-save-the-country/ http://americaspolitics.com/2010/02/04/save-the-party-save-the-country/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:57:55 +0000 admin http://americaspolitics.com/?p=279 Too dramatic I think I can hear you say. Too partisan. Too ‘Repbulican’ like. No party is the country. In a more normal time, I would have to agree. But we are not in normal. We are so far from normal, we can’t even see normal. The Republican party is stealing not just an election, but a democracy. Our democracy. And its time for Democrats to adopt a Win America attitude.

Lets be clear about what the political dynamic is in Washington. Lets be clear about who is doing what, in Washington. One one side we have the Democrats who persist in ‘bringing textbooks to a knife fight’ as a former congressman said, and on the other we have the specter of a Republican party wanting to sink the ship rather than let good policy do good things for America. Not to mention, the world.

As important as the Democratic agenda is, more important is the integrity of our system of representation. When a party that lost an election can prevent the will of the people from taking form, the system itself is in trouble. How much trouble?  How about the failure of the electoral system of government for starters. The underlying fact is this…a losing party refused to allow the winning party to implement the platform the people demanded. It is as if the election hadn’t happened. The Republican party has executed a a ‘putsch’ . Worse they are being rewarded for their efforts.

It is time the President and the Democratic party to a person start thinking of the future of the country they love, and less about their sensibility’s. It is time the winning party’s agenda advanced and the rebellion be quashed in the most ruthless of ways.

Nothing less will save our land.

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