not surprisingly, driftglass says it best, in an open letter to Chris Dodd. (h/t PwapVt)
"Dear Senator,
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First let me say, good for you; the road from Triangulation Addiction to recovery begins with the admission that you have a problem.
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You have 100 million people lined up and ready to pay any price and bear any burden for just a sip of something sweet and cool; who are deathly sick from drinking the toxic "Fuck Everyone But Me" Patent Medicine the Republicans have been flogging from the last 20 years.
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The good news is, you can be Big Again. Seriously, if you can just quit acting like the Keystone Kongress for five minutes and learn a how to focus your energy through a lens of Party Discipline and get beyond repeating your Recovery First Step like a fucking mantra ("We have a problem We have a problem We have a problem." We Get It. You Have A Problem. Now what?) and take actual action, you can kick the GOP around the block and back again
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So in that spirit, let me offer you some simple, easy-to-follow hints for making that Long March back to power:
1. Quit whining and hit them already.
2. None of you is bigger than the Party. None. And because of that;
3. Tell men like Joe Biden to Shut The Fuck Up and quit acting like a rookie dancing in the end zone after his first TD every time he even thinks he sees a TV camera. His buffoonish antics embarrass us all. The Ailto hearings could have been about substance if any one of you had bothered to coordinate a strategy beforehand, instead of reacting like skanks on ElimiDate trying to out-preen each other.
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6. Hit the GOP where they bluster. Go into their house. Seduce their wife. Kick their dog. Quit mincing and triangulating and fencing with rubber-tipped epees, and Charge Right At Them With A Fucking Broadsword. It freak’s em out.
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8. Stop waiting for the referee or Jesus or Mommy to show up and make the GOP “fight fair.” That day will never come, and if the GOP Leadership ever started behaving like sportsmen and statesmen instead of con men and Klansmen, their Party would collapse tomorrow. Divisiveness and hate is all they have. They know it, and it has served them well because the DLC keeps deluding themselves about that simple, central fact. They are not nice men. They will never be nice men. And if they offer to shake your hand, they’re only doing it so they can slit your wrist.
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11. It is past time to call the GOP out for being a Party of traitors, liars, looters, cronies and nuts, so when in front of a microphones, speak in simple, declarative sentences.
12. The answer to any question should be one of the following:
13. “Because Republicans are liars.”
14. “Because the Republican Party is racist to its core.”
15. “Because Republicans do not care about America.”
16. “Because George Bush is the best friend Osama Bin Laden ever had.”
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Lastly, a few words about this “Only saying ‘no’ won’t sell” blather.
This is just so fucking ridiculous; another example of Democratic Leaders falling for the head-fake. Accepting the predicate of GOP Talking Points and then trying to debate on terms they dictate.
For Christ’s Sake! When a mother stands between her child and a thug with a knife and says “No!” she’s not being “negative”. She is defending her family.
Why don’t you get that?
We are asking you -- begging you -- to interpose yourself between our values and the thugs and who are trying to destroy them. Between our Constitution and the criminals who are trying to shred it.
Where in the Hell is your ferocious, patriotic passion to defend our nation on those grounds? Under those terms?
Damn it, Senator! Find the passion and the words will come: just ask King, or Churchill or Gandhi or ten thousand others who aren’t famous, just brave and clear and strong.
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Stop waiting for them to play nice. Stop waiting for the cavalry to come and save us.
You are the cavalry.
So quit whining and hit them already."
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