Does the Democratic Party need to change or not ?

[kentuck]

Do we continue to be the same Party that sits on its ass as the other Party passes tax cuts for special interests as we are running $500 billion deficits at the same time a war is going on? Not only do they sit on their ass, some actually join in handing out the special interests tax breaks that everyone knew we could not afford and was reckless to the extreme. Is that the Party we want to continue to prop up and support? Or do we want to change?

If so, how do we change it? My suggestion is to tell those "Democrats" that voted with Bush on his taxcuts to not bother running the next time. We will not support your sorry unprincipled butts one more time. Pack up your suitcase and get the hell out of town. We do not need you. If we are going to lose, we will lose with someone that is at least willing to stand up for a principle. In my opinion, we need to change our Party from the bottom up.

For those that think this is only dividing our Party and will prevent us from winning in the future, I would say it is only postponing the inevitable. We have a bunch of "losers" in our Party - namely, those that vote with the right-wingers on such issues as the tax breaks for special interests.

Yeah, but 50% of the time they vote correctly, they will say. Well, that is not good enough. Keep packing. If I'm going to be with a losing Party, I want to be with one that stands for something.

PS...Sorry for the rant, but after watching Carville on MTP, it was impossible not to see how far gone our Party really is....They have no idea what they stand for.