Reply #30: People fail to understand

[quaker bill]

that there is no "the democrats" as a definable entity in the line "the democrats should....". When you say this, you are swinging at air.

What appears as "the democrats" is and always was a group of individually elected representatives, each responsible to their own constituents. Because of the diverse composition of our party, now even greater than in the past, each representative will have a different agenda in a number of respects.

Bottom line, when you say "Harry Reid should..." or "President Obama should..." the statement can potentially make some sense. However, whenever you start with "the Democrats should..." whatever you attach to it can make no sense because there is no "the Democrats" entity to address and never was.