"But if the election were today," said Ms. Walter, the political analyst, "it would not be fun."

This quote comes out of a New York Times article on Sunday morning dicussing the current impasse in the Senate and stripping down of Senate rules being attempted by the Senate Republicans. It's reached a nice boil and will stay there for a couple of days anyway. I think the public is getting real tired of hearing about all the garbage while gas prices continue to remain high and will stay that way for sometime, probably for the rest of the summer. It's quite frustrating really and both parties are losing in this fight.

The Democrats must push the momentum they are building and keep it going. Senator Reid must be careful how they work this fight AFTER this filibuster fiasco finishes its course.
The Republicans may be in a somewhat weakened state after all this fighting over all the garbage they've been throwing around lately. The Democrats must seize this advantage and run with it. What advantage you might say.

The pubs have been sticking their noses where they don't belong lately and so have their evangelical backers like Dobson and his Focus on the Family and Pastor Ted and the New Lifers. The interefere in our private, personal business. Terry Schiavo is one example. The Schiavo case was horrible and ugly but Congress had no business getting involved. The Florida judges looked at Florida law and maed the correct decision based on the law. They weren't activists. If the judges HAD gone contrary to the law, then they would've been activists. That is the most visible case recently but they keep trying make our world in their image and it just isn't like that, not even remotely and they have to realize their attempts to make it so will meet with more and more criticism and will eventually backfire.

The federal government right now is violating the 1st amendment by favoring certain religious groups over others. It's so obvious and so ridiculous and so frightening. This is an area where the Democrats can move ahead. They need to work on painting the image of these folks as wanting to squash out other religious denominations because that is what they will do. If your religious belief doesn't' agree with the ones they espouse or if you choose not to go down that route at all, you're beneath contempt. It's a problem and the dems need to work on this.

They need to focus on personal freedom, working to help bring jobs in, and making sure everyone has healthcare and basic survival benefits like social security for the future. If they work on these and keep pounding them home, then they might do well. But the must control the agenda and keeping hammering home one or two issues. Oil would be a good one too... the price of energy as heating oil goes up, gasoline goes up, all prices stay high. There are so many opportunities for the Democrats and they must seize them now and begin working on the Republican majority.

New York Times article

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