Reply #74: You idea of left wing disruption has been tried.

[bluestate10]

The result was electoral disaster for democrats. Like it or not, the democratic party on average is a centrist party and should stay that way. Republicans are headed for disruption driven by tea party people. What is happening and happened during the months leading up to the midterms is that democratic leaders were either outsmarted or did not have the guts to force bloody votes by republicans on vital issues like jobless benefits, and funding for the Small Business Administration. Democrats paid for coming in January 2009 and seeing that jobs and the economy were the most pressing issues, yet allowed themselves to get side tracked into tough votes on Cap and Trade and Health Care Reform. Republicans having the House and more power in the Senate gets the target shifted to their heads, they can no longer sit back and yell, they must come up with policy proposals and have those proposals face intense scrutiny that none of their pre-election secret plans faced.