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November 9, 2006
More work to do.
As most of you have already figured out, I'm a problem oriented person. I don't spend much time celebrating successes. There is something hardcoded in my DNA that just won't let me get caught up in it. The statement Pride leadth to a fall, becomes a tired refrain and I move onto the next problem. There is always more work to do, more things to fix and build.
As these elections are being sorted out nationally, we are left with a lot of work to do. The Republicans have done horrible damage to the critical infrastructure of our nation for short term gain. And with Bush still in control and incompetent people leading every aspect of the government, everything that the Democrats do will be completely and totally muted. The right wing noise machine will focus all their energy on the fact that with Republicans working night and day to undermine their agenda that it's failing. So it's up to the American people now to step in and try to resist the Republican incompetence and cruelity. Remember folks, they only care about getting more power back into their hands and they will do anything to do it. So if you think the fight is over, you are sadly mistaken. We've got twice as much work to do now.
We bloggers will probably start outlining our agenda for the next 2 years now. There are a lot Republican Senators who will be up for reelection. Their actions for the next two years will determine how much energy we focus on making sure they don't get reelected. The radical right wing bloggers are screaming that some of the red districts that we won, we won't win in the next 2 years in the House. At worse, I think we could lose 15 seats in 2 years. But it will mostly depend on the Senate. In the House there is no filibuster, so there is little the Republicans can do to harm the Democratic agenda there. The nuts and bolts efforts that Speaker Pelosi has in mind will definitely resonate with the American people. It will be the responsibility of we bloggers to offset the Republican attempts to blame their failures on the Democrats because they just happen to be in charge.
Our most immediate concern is going to be a little house cleaning of our own. Republicans in their infinite wisdom decided that embracing corruption and criminality was the best choice for their party. We Democrats have a slightly different worldview. So we have to do something about Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA). As you may recall, he was the one caught in the corruption scandal taking a bribe from FBI agents. We strip him of his place on committees but the real place we can send a message about how committed we are to fighting corruption is at the ballot box. In Louisianna, when you fail to get a majority of the vote in an election it forces a run off between the top two vote getters. The Netroots is now going to swing it's gaze onto this race and throw it's full support behind Karen Carter. They are setting up an ActBlue page for getting money to Carter, because she's being out fundraised by the corrupt Jefferson (big surprise there). She's got the endorsement of the Democratic Party of Lousianna and that of the Netroots. I imagine that the women's groups will be following these endorsements pretty quickly.
So you've had a couple of days to relax, it's time to get back to work folks. Remember keep in touch with your Congress Critter, they need to know what we are thinking and worrying about to be effective.
Read more over Daily Kos.
Posted by Jamison at November 9, 2006 7:47 AM
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