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After the Landslide: Democrats should not be in a forgiving mood.
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jun 19, 2008 04:38pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - Philadelphia City Paper |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Philadelphia City Paper.
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"In an old Arnold Schwarzenegger movie called Commando, the future governator hunts down the people involved in kidnapping his daughter. As he is dangling one of these seedy men over the side of a building, he quips, "Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? I lied." And then he lets him go.
I hope this is the attitude President Obama adopts for the Republicans who have run this country like a corrupt condo owners association for the past eight years. Obama may run on a platform of party reconciliation, but his goal should be a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and a landslide general election victory that would allow him to drop Republicanism over the ledge of a skyscraper and watch it plummet to its gruesome demise.
An Obama victory would be the perfect time to crush contemporary conservatism and to enact the kind of progressive agenda that only sweeping power will allow. Truly revolutionary, forward-thinking change has only been achieved during those rare moments when one party controls the government — like the enormous Democratic majorities that let FDR create the New Deal and LBJ, the Great Society.
The objective this November should be the comprehensive political liquidation of the people who declared war on the poor and the middle class, who led this country down the path of endless war, and who at every turn chose the interests of the wealthy over the needs of the people they were elected to serve.
The message should be very simple. For the incumbents who supported the Iraq war, the bankruptcy bill, the Terry Schiavo grandstanding, the tax giveaways to the rich, the endless gay-b aiting, the war profiteering, the rollback of privacy, the sanctification of torture, the pitiful lack of congressional oversight, the two recessions and the obliteration of New Orleans, there should be only five little words: We are coming for you." |
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