okie wrote:fishin' wrote:James Carville's new book "Take It Back" is along the same lines. The quip I picked up from him the other morning on the radio was that "Democrats need to grow a spine." and it falls in line with Ivins' piece.
Right or wrong, to mean much of anything in politics you have to stand for something. Wavering doens't get much traction.
Yeh, I for one would like to know what it is? Do any of you know?
These were all stated clearly in the launch post, but I will state them again for the reading-challenged...
The war in Iraq is a mistake and we should get out.
We want single-payer health care and we are willing to pay more taxes to get it.
We want to raise the minimum wage.
We want to repeal Bush's tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich.
We want to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.
We want to do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment. Big oil companies are gouging consumers and so we would support a windfall profits tax.
The talking point that Democrats "have no beliefs" is a buncha crap. Just something to say rather than argue ideas.
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