Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Might As Well Be Democrats
I'm very much with Jeff Goldstein on this. All they had to do was vote no, and the Dems would have been forced to come up with a better bill (and of course, we already know that Specter was clueless about some of the bill's provisions, but doing something - anything - no matter how potentially stupid and dangerous is better than actually using your noodle to come up with something better). We need to have a smaller, united party that stands for something - which is the only way to persuade people to support it and ultimately make it a majority party again - rather than this loose ball of yarn that's come unraveled and is spread all over the place.
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People were gibbering on a while ago about "big tents", including all Republicans, even RINOs, blah blah blah.
I suggest a pup tent instead. A leaking one. That's a better size for that concept.
I'd hate to see us have to resort to a third party because that would be self-defeating in my opinion. There is just no way that conservatives can team with libertarians as the are presently constituted. There will have to be some large coalition building between different factions. We're also going to have to force the Republican Party to support good candidates against some of their own like Specter who is up in 2010 I think.
I'm willing to give MIchael Steele some time but he has a large uphill battle against the eastern wing of the Party.
Politician's logic:
We must do something.
This is something.
Therefore, we must do this.
-from "Yes Minister"
Is anyone really surprised that this thing passed?
Not surprised, just saddened to a degree that overreaches my ability to properly articulate it.
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