Reply #8: No mention of this in Wash Po today!! [View All]

In the article about the President going to the DNC for the forum, there was not one word about the hundreds of people outside demanding a public option. People, we need to turn the heat up. Eugene Robinson says it eloquently today in his OP-ED:


A LTTLE MORE HEAT PLEASE
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, August 21, 2009

Here's the least surprising news of the week: Americans are souring on the Democratic Party. The wonder is that it's taken so long for public opinion to curdle. There's nothing agreeable about watching a determined attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

....Republican efforts to obstruct, delay, confuse, stall, distort and otherwise impede the reform agenda that Americans voted for last November have had measurable success. And it means that Democrats, having been given a mandate -- one as comprehensive as either party is likely to enjoy in this era of red-vs.-blue polarization -- don't really know how to use it.

That the Democratic Party is no paragon of organization and discipline is almost axiomatic. That's not the problem. The Pew poll suggests that the Democrats' weakness is neither strategic nor tactical but emotional. To quote the poet William Butler Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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There's not enough passion on the Democratic side, not enough heat. There's some radiating from the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, too little emanating from the Democratic majority in the Senate, and not nearly enough coming from President Obama. Republicans, by contrast, have little going for them except passion -- but they're using it to impressive effect.

FULL OP-ED:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003038.html