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Saturday, March 20, 2010

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

-- James Baldwin.



"We call upon the Republican Party to say "Shame on You" to these Tea Partiers, for this behavior." Republicans have been playing a far more dangerous game than many have realized. If Democrats push reform through all that obstructionism and no longer look so ineffectual as they have done for a whole year through many underinformed so-called "Independents" will quickly turn from irritation to satisfaction, if these mass-mediated deceptions and fearmongering hyperboles are exposed as such by a sky that fails to fall a whole lot of birther-deather True Believer types will quickly turn from energetic zealotry to bewildered demoralization, and if the losers also happen to look as desperate, ugly, undignified and mean-spirited as Republicans do right now you better believe that a whole lot of righteous anger they thought they had at their commend will turn against them in its full ferocity. America is like that. I won't say that widespread Democratic fears about upcoming mid-terms are unfounded by any means, but I do think there is a way forward from here that does little to diminish their ability to retain control and govern if they manage not to shoot themselves in the foot for once.

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