Comments on: Favorite Letter http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2007/01/12/favorite-letter/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:46:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: rob adams http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2007/01/12/favorite-letter/comment-page-1/#comment-63956 rob adams Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:01:25 +0000 http://www.tinmanic.com/archives/2007/01/12/favorite-letter/#comment-63956 If more registered Democrats were as supportive, active, and efficiently organized as are Republicans, our national figure-heads might feel a bit more courageous. We'd see veto-poof dictums bursting forth from the nation's Congress on such needs as a truly livable minimum wage and an audit of all intelligence programs for civil rights infringement. Instead, we have a bee-in-the-mouth-Republican delegation re-arming for 2008 and a milk-toast Democratic herd trying to find shelter in numbers rather than righteousness. It's not that, as a party, we're poorer (a too common delusion) or lack drive; A dollar never helped anyone become more organized and active (except in Chicago). And the path of the righteous is a matter of conscience. Here's the issue: The common Democrat believes that various Super_Democrats can effectively do all the work for the entire federal-cause, while the Republican knows it takes *each* of their fold to make the Majority federally effective. Congress is chess, not checkers. If more registered Democrats were as supportive, active, and efficiently organized as are Republicans, our national figure-heads might feel a bit more courageous. We’d see veto-poof dictums bursting forth from the nation’s Congress on such needs as a truly livable minimum wage and an audit of all intelligence programs for civil rights infringement. Instead, we have a bee-in-the-mouth-Republican delegation re-arming for 2008 and a milk-toast Democratic herd trying to find shelter in numbers rather than righteousness.

It’s not that, as a party, we’re poorer (a too common delusion) or lack drive; A dollar never helped anyone become more organized and active (except in Chicago). And the path of the righteous is a matter of conscience. Here’s the issue: The common Democrat believes that various Super_Democrats can effectively do all the work for the entire federal-cause, while the Republican knows it takes *each* of their fold to make the Majority federally effective.

Congress is chess, not checkers.

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