Seriously folks....

[kentuck]

If our Party had done to us what the establishment Republicans did to them, we would have our own Tea Party, also. They meant to take their Party back from the "big spenders", the liars, the war mongers, the incompetents, that broke every bond they had made with their supporters. They may have been a rag-tag, motley crew of characters, but they got the job done.

Their Party, the Republicans, screwed our country royally. Nobody expected them to become Democrats. It is not in their DNA. If Mitch McConnell and the leadership of the GOP believe they can give these folks marching orders, I think they may have under-estimated or misread what is happening in their Party? Their anger and resentment was real and it was directed at the Republican Party.

Whatever anger there is in the Democratic Party is different. The base of the Democratic Party is angry because the mess that the Repubs created has not been cleaned up yet and there has not been a new vision to take our Party forward from the disaster of George W Bush and the Republicans. The Democrats are not angry at their Party in the same way or for the same reasons as the Tea Party bunch. The changes in the other Party are theirs alone to deal with.

The Democrats have no intentions of getting rid of their incumbents or moderates, that voted with George W Bush more often than they should have done. We did not like it but we are not angry enough to put on funny hats with "don't tread on me" flags and throw the rascals out. At least, not yet. Our challenge is to organize and inspire enough Democrats to get to the polls in November to keep the House and the Senate in Democratic hands. It is helpful to understand the difference in the anger of the two Parties. We, unlike the Tea Partiers, are not yet ready to declare mutiny.

[msongs]

1. would be nice just to get rid of the bipartisan is more important than anything mentality nt

[kentuck]

3. Yes.

Democrats need to understand that they have to draw a clear distinction between the Parties and what they stand for. The days of bi-partisanship and ambiguity are over.

[FrenchieCat]

2. We wouldn't have Fox News.....

or Chris Matthews drooling......

So, I don't believe that a Revolution set up by those Brothers and Freedom Works = the people.

[kentuck]

4. No. This was a total Republican intra-Party struggle.

But they are still Republicans. They have changed the Republican Party. They have purified their Party of those that would attempt to work with the evil Democrats. They are far more right wing now than they were just yesterday.

[Nite Owl]

5. I'd love to be a fly on the wall

in GOP headquarters tonight. They made their bed and it isn't roses.

[kentuck]

7. It reminds me of a story about a mountain man...

Who chased a bobcat into a hollow log and put his arm into the log to pull him out. His brother heard an awful hollering and screaming and ran up to help his brother. "Do you want me to help you hold him!"

"No, I want you to help me turn him loose!"

That is what the Repubs have in their hands at this time.

[aquart]

6. And I would agree if the funding weren't so Koch.

So far, Democrats can still tell the difference between grass roots and astroturf. Republicans, not so much.

[lonestarnot]

8. Woodamn whoooo!

K & R for this post alone!

[kentuck]

10. Yeah, they are still Republicans...

They should not be mistaken for liberals.

[Radical Activist]

9. Progressives didn't organize on the ground well enough in the primaries.

We came close in Arkansas. Maybe if people had been more focused on primary races than on attacking every move Obama makes...