Have we really forgotten that it is Congress and not the President that gets the legislation passed? And unfortunately most significant legislation requires at a minimum 60% approval. But for some reason we have focused all our anger at a few people in the administration, a few Blue Dog democrats. What about the ENTIRE Republican Party? Where's our anger at them? Are we afraid they might call us bad names? Is it the Stockholm syndrome where we have become so spineless that we have actually started to sympathize with our torturers?
Come on progressives, do we really need to blow off our heads to spite our face? Sixty to seventy percent of the American public has been convinced by Republican Dick Armey and Freedomworks that repealing Obama's healthcare bill and going back to being denied coverage by Health Insurance companies is a good thing! We have let this happen. Wouldn't a more positive approach be praising the good things that Democrats have done and encouraging the obvious Blue Dog Democrats to stop pretending like they are Democrats. We could do all this while focusing our real anger on the real source of the obstruction to meaningful change, which has been due overwhelmingly to the Republican Party.
I helped a good friend with a local campaign on the east coast last year. A guy who had for years done good things for his town and community and was beloved. But an irrational anger and an unrelenting negative propaganda machine swept through his community, drummed up by the earliest strain of the then fledgling tea party and they took us by surprise. He lost because the tea party types were energized and my friend's base stayed home. Only 70% of his base from previous elections came out to vote last November. Not long after the Massachusetts surprise of Scott Brown took place. I learned a valuable lesson and I hope the Nation does not learn this in November.