Comments on: Cautious jubilation in the middle http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/ I used to be in the middle, but they keep moving the line! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:05:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Polimom http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45040 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:54:24 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45040 <em>"I am going to wait - without holding my breath - to see if their change is real, or just making nicey-nicey after the election."</em> I'm not waiting. For the first time ever, I'm pushing. If we wait until the dust settles, the ravers (and they exist on all sides) may begin to sway these folks. Whether they're newly elected or newly empowered, they need to hear the voices along with the votes. “I am going to wait - without holding my breath - to see if their change is real, or just making nicey-nicey after the election.”

I’m not waiting. For the first time ever, I’m pushing. If we wait until the dust settles, the ravers (and they exist on all sides) may begin to sway these folks. Whether they’re newly elected or newly empowered, they need to hear the voices along with the votes.

]]> by: Ed T. http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45039 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:37:27 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45039 <blockquote>...as glad as I am to read that this morning, I’d like to know where it’s been for the last six years.</blockquote> I think you missed the point in the passage you quoted: Bush "forged a strong working relationship with a legislature led by <em>conservative</em> Democrats." I would actually place them as conservative-to-moderate. So to answer your question with another: where have the conservative-to-moderate Democrats been these past six years? <em>None</em> of the current Demo leadership fit that profile (that is,before the election), so I am going to wait - without holding my breath - to see if their change is real, or just making nicey-nicey after the election. ~EdT.

…as glad as I am to read that this morning, I’d like to know where it’s been for the last six years.

I think you missed the point in the passage you quoted: Bush “forged a strong working relationship with a legislature led by conservative Democrats.”

I would actually place them as conservative-to-moderate. So to answer your question with another: where have the conservative-to-moderate Democrats been these past six years? None of the current Demo leadership fit that profile (that is,before the election), so I am going to wait - without holding my breath - to see if their change is real, or just making nicey-nicey after the election.

~EdT.

]]> by: Polimom Says » Excuse me… but this was NOT a liberal mandate http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45017 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:21:44 +0000 http://www.polimom.com/2006/11/08/cautious-jubilation-in-the-middle/#comment-45017 [...] Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake is apparently hearing the Democratic leadership’s acknowledgment of the need for more moderate politics and bipartisanship (my prior post here)… and is not at all happy: So Rahm, here’s a message from your constituents who just worked their asses off to give their party a victory: don’t be a back-stabbing ass. Nancy Pelosi deserves more loyalty and less personal power grabbing from you and your selfish posse. Bi-partisanship is fantastic when it is working properly, with everyone involved acting in good faith. I don’t know about you guys, but I think the Republican party needs to prove that it has some good faith before we start caving in to their demands. [...] […] Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake is apparently hearing the Democratic leadership’s acknowledgment of the need for more moderate politics and bipartisanship (my prior post here)… and is not at all happy: So Rahm, here’s a message from your constituents who just worked their asses off to give their party a victory: don’t be a back-stabbing ass. Nancy Pelosi deserves more loyalty and less personal power grabbing from you and your selfish posse. Bi-partisanship is fantastic when it is working properly, with everyone involved acting in good faith. I don’t know about you guys, but I think the Republican party needs to prove that it has some good faith before we start caving in to their demands. […]

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