"...the Democrats need to learn to use more pungent language"

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/2/21/85025/9456

President's Day Round-Up

by BooMan
Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 08:50:25 AM EST

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...the Democrats need to learn to use more pungent language. The Republicans' plan to tackle high unemployment is to destroy as many government jobs as possible. But there are not enough private sector jobs available right now for the people who are unemployed. How the hell will it make it easier for you to find a job if you suddenly have to compete against hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed people coming from the public sector? That's what the Dems need to do. Talk directly to the people who are looking for a job, or a better job, and ask them if they want all this new competition. Ask all the people who are worried about the budget whether they want to pay the unemployment insurance for hundreds of thousands of government workers. Ask them if they want a new spike in home foreclosures in their neighborhoods. Tear the head off these Republicans and don't stop until they stop kicking.

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The Democrats want to make the Republicans blink and they're not afraid of a shutdown. I think that makes a shutdown inevitable. It's not in the Republicans' nature to back down until they've destroyed their position, advantage, the budget, the reputation of the country, whatever country they've invaded, their marriages, or anything else that comes in their path.

[msongs]

1. repubs have learned if they wait long enuff dems will cave most of the time nt

[ljm2002]

2. And the reason Democrats don't "use more pungent language"...

...is that they have weakened their own positions due to their desire for corporate money. Thus, they adopt the corporate feel-good mealy-mouth platitudes while saying nothing, and this in turn removes any fire there may have been.

The Republicans do not suffer from this particular setback, since their positions favor the corporations, and thus they can make fiery speeches all day long without incurring the wrath of their corporate donors -- since their positions serve the interests of the corporations, even if couched in the language of populism.