McAuliffe and the DNC

Is it just me, or does the national leadership of the Democratic Party seem content to remain in permanent "opposition"?

I think thar Dean would be a great DNC chairman. I was always a Kerry supporter, but Dean gave us back our fighting spirit!

really oppose the Repubs when you get right down to it.

Real opposition refutes the majority and illuminates and educates about the effects of public policies on people 24/7 day in, day out, week after week, month after month, year in, year out.

Basically Dem leadership is lazy and, as a consequence, easily rolled over by Repubs as if they didn't even exist when the dirty deeds are actually being written into law. They are mostly silent, invisible and completely ineffective between elections. They don't fight on a daily basis to clarify and get the message out about the impact of right wing policies on real peoples' lives. If they would stand firm, instead of caving, and speak-out CLEARLY every single day, winning elections would be the natural result instead of the insurmountable goal that it has become.

No Dem should sign onto the Repub "reforms" of tort law, Social Security or the taxcode etc in any way shape or form. Every single Dem in both House and Senate should vote NO, NO, NO over and over and over again while the Democratic Party apparatus is explaining, in understandable language, why if they voted YES - people would be harmed.

We might lose a few DINOs clinging to seats in red states by voting with the Repubs - so what - what good do Dems voting for bad legislation in order to hold onto their seats do for us? We could more than make up for it by focusing on flushing Repubs out of elected representation in the blue states and overwhelm them in a few, 2 year election cycles. If we're in a "culture war" - pumping up our elected numbers while reducing theirs in the blue states will really help.

And DINOs in blue states - like Joe Lieberman - should be hammered on to shut the fuck up and get in line or else. He is wasting a Senate seat that could be held by a raving liberal to provide counter weight to the inexorably rightward moving repukes.