Ablogination

No, this was no “referendum on Obama” as the weak of mind might claim. It will have no effect whatsoever on the progressive agenda.
But there is a stark and brutally clear lesson to be learned here. Whether or not Obama and the Democratic party are capable of learning it is an entirely different matter.

Democrats lost the Gubernatorials in New Jersey and Virginia. Are Democrats asking themselves why? There’s a number of reasons. Let’s examine them…

1) “LOW VOTER TURNOUT”
Did the Democratic party forget that we only win big when we turn out to vote? Seems that way.
What happened to the energized Liberal base of the Democratic party? Why couldn’t Obama rally us like he did in ‘08?
Well, when you campaign on change, then waste precious time pandering and capitulating and sucking up to the Right Wing, we don’t take you quite as seriously as we did before.
When you continue to provide scum like Eirk Prince and Balckwater contracts, when you fail to bring our troops home, when you socialize with the likes of George Bush and basically ignore our pleas and warnings on the internet, you leave the base with no other means of sending you a message.
Yesterday should be a lesson in the perils of pragmatism. President Obama, and the Democratic party, are not being Progressive enough. Therefor, turnout is low.
Turnout was low for both parties. This is the proof.
We should have won all those elections….

2) This blogger, once again, calls for the resignation of DNC Chairman Tim Kaine. There was no organized DNC effort on the ground. I live 2 miles from the Virginia line. I saw nothing in the way of organized anything. Tim Kaine pumped 6 million dollars of DNC money into Virginia. Where’d it go?
There were no buses bringing Democratic voters to the polls. There was no effort whatsoever.

Howard Dean would have aced this one. Tim Kaine is a weak spirited failure and should resign immediately.
He simply hasn’t the political wherewithal to lead this party to victory….

3) Blue DogShits and other Centrists in Congress have alienated the Democratic base with their pathetic displays of cowardice and Republicanism. Americans are stressing on the economy and the Democratic Center is helping Republicans drag out critical issues such as Health Reform that should have already been law.
This makes Americans nervous and makes Democrats, Obama included, look weak and indecisive.

Now granted, we didn’t lose all the locals, but the fact remains that all of these minor elections would have been ours were it not for the past year of kissing Republican ass and trying to keep their diapers changed.

Better learn from this one, Barack and Company. You did the typical Democratic thing when you were elected by moving to the Center and unnecessarily embracing the Right Wing.
Trouble is, the party has changed and we’re simply not going to tolerate that anymore.
We’ll let it all go to hell in a bucket before we’ll open arms to the Right.

These minor victories for the Right Wing will have no impact on the here and now whatsoever, but this had better be a wake up call to Democrats as 2010 quickly approaches.
We won’t turn out for a party that refuses to do what we put them there to do. Remember that the next time you offer a contract to Blackwater or pal around with a Bush or fail to forcefully support the Public Option.

If you thought that the Liberal base of the Democratic party would just settle for anything that wasn’t Bush, well, you thought wrong. Obviously.

Victor Hugo was right. The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.