When Democrats muster up the guts to start ostracizing members of their own party who vote and act like Republicans (as Rep. Pete Stark so bravely did, recently), public support for the Democratic Party will climb because these actions will preserve the purity of the Democratic ideals for which the nation showed overwhelming support last November.
Moreover, when Democrats start ostracizing their own members it shows that they are not making party-based judgments about issues like health care, they are making substantive judgments and complex judgments that remain married to core ideals not a Party agenda.
Should the Democrats decide to keep condoning traitors in their own party, then voters will put them out of office in no time.
Democrats will benefit more by killing a weak health care bill in 2009 than they will by passing one.
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