Oh, what's the point? Everybody knows Wampum has been using Diebold for years.
Posted by dj moonbat at March 12, 2006 04:37 PMOT but..
I read you guys and gals, and I watch the pitiful talent Dems trot out on national television and every time I just shake my head in disbelief. This morning there was a good example. Howard Dean was just on Late Edition (he’s actually usually pretty good). But in this interview as with all the others, he failed to use to most simple, powerful and I believe effective facts to make the case for electing Dems. In fact, this fact, this simple argument, which as you will see below can be articulated clearly and quickly is an airtight answer to the only question Dems are being asked these days and a perfect rebuttal to a popular line of attack being used by the GOP:
The question/attack: Dems have no plan. No solutions They are not united. They only criticize BushCo and the GOP. They have nothing positive to offer.
The answer/response: Not only does Democratic party have a platform and philosophy, defined and distinct from that of the GOP, but the plan has already yielded fantastic results. Meanwhile, GOP public policy brings only disaster every bit as well recorded by history and easily communicated as the Dems successes. Of course we have a plan. It’s same damn plan we used to make this country great, free the slaves, getting women the right to vote, civil rights, workers protections and the creation of the middle class. And of course this generations public policy. The results of our current plan have already been implemented and have been unequivocally proven by history to be fantastically successful for the United States. The plan is below:
1) Heavy investment in government sponsored R&D (in the 70’s and 80’s - and pushed for btw, in a great show of leadership and foresight by Al Gore) led to not a “tech bubble that Clinton got lucky with” but and actual technological dominance over the rest of the world. How Al Gore fought for the funding to get the Darpa Net out of the UC labs and into what the Internet is today is a prefect example of this. But there are many others
2) The Dems economic/tax/spending/fiscal policy set forth in the 1993 deficit reduction budget (voted against by every GOPer) and followed through 2000 brought the best economic/fiscal times in the history of our republic. And to illustrate that it was in fact the Democratic public policy that brought it about, the best results came in 1997-2000 or 4-5 years after the plan we implemented. It brought us 23 million new jobs, had real wages going through the roof, eliminated the federal budget deficit, brought great GDP growth with low inflation, low interest rates, paid down the national debt, increased funding for public education and infrastructure, had us with a massive competitive technological advantage over the rest of the world, kept us safe from terrorism (in fact the greatest intel we have is from the Millennium bomber we caught under Clintons watch), protected the environment, reduced violent crime, had Northern Ireland and Israel on the brink of permanent peace and had our approval ratings in most MUSLIM countries in the 70-80% range.
That’s it!! Two short paragraphs. No reason to get into the details (although we have them in that easy discussion as well), the American mind won’t absorb that, just state the results. It would be so easy for any of you when you get on TV or the radio or any of the timid, mealy mouth, conciliatory, ill-prepared, considerate, wet paper bags the Dems trot out to do battle with Oreily and Scarborough to simply give a short run down of how great our Dem public policy turns out and the miserable failure GOP trickle down economics, regulatory neglect, point of a gun diplomacy and anti-government funded science and technology clearly brings. We have the shockingly strark and undisputed results on our side and we NEVER SEEM TO TALK ABOUT THEM.
So.. we should NEVER have to talk about what new ideas we have as Dems. We have the old ones that were working perfectly before the GOP came in with their disastrous policy, which the last 25 years of historical data shows clearly doesn’t work at all. It’s the perfect response. True, short, plays the patriotism card, is a positive message (don’t get me wrong though, I’m a huge fan of going negative early and often), makes Dems look good and kicks Republicans in the teeth.
Over the last 25 years we have the scoreboard. Our public policy has produced great results for rich, poor and those in the middle. Their public policy brings results that are nothing short of national disaster.
So really the choice is vote for Dems and go back to the great results we had when their public policy was in effect or we can elect GOPers and stay with the bad results we currently suffer from until we go off the cliff. Simple as pie…
What do you think?
eR, I have a natural fondness for your WMDgate series, where I tended to hang out in the comments section. That said, I think your original Uranium from Africa series is still your chef d'oeuvre. It's a shame Wampum didn't include it.
As an aside, I still like the consolidated set of links (scroll down to bottom) I offered for that series, back when I nominated it. Oh well.
Posted by KM at March 13, 2006 12:47 PM