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Democrats in the Land of Oz: Cowardly Lion Role?

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Joan Vennochi’s column in the Globe this week could not have been more appropriate regarding the botched joke fiasco…Democrats would do well to consider how long they intend to play the part of the cowardly lion…

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  1. It doesn’t matter in Massachusetts, but too many Democrats on the national stage don’t seem to realize that we’re facing a radical group of thugs who are only interested in power and who are changing the face of America. Against these radicals the old rules no longer apply, and in the words of one of their worst – Grover Norquist, “bipartisanship is like date rape”. That gang has done so much damage that I will never support anyone for a national position who isn’t a team player on the Democratic side.

  2. I don’t think Vennochi was talking about Deval Patrick…she was referring to National “leaders” in the Democratic Party who are so overly concerned about their personal prospects that they equivocate and cower in the face of GOP *storms.

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    It’s fine to run AGAINST the GOP…but what are they running FOR? (other than personal advancement and advantage)

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    They better figure it out before they actually have to take over the House…whining about the GOP won’t be a workable strategy anymore…

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    Maybe John Murtha would be a good Speaker…he seems to know what he stands for and against and isn’t afraid of the GOP or radio talk show hosts.

    • Right on, Joan.

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      All throughout this summer and fall, I couldn’t forget a Comedy Central sketch with Ed Helms featuring Paul Hackett right after he was booted out of the race against Mike DeWine in Ohio. There is a scene where Helms is talking with NY political consultant Hank Scheinkopf …

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      HANK SCHEINKOPF: It doesn’t hurt that the Republicans keep screwing up — it only helps you. It’s good to have an opponent who keeps making errors.

      ED HELMS: I am right there with you.

      I got mugged the other day, and this bum was beating me with a bottle, and I said, “You know what? I’m going to sit back and wait for him to accidentally hit himself with the bottle. Sure enough, he did. I mean, I was unconscious, but I think I won that battle.”

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      Regarding Murtha, he seems to have never met a defense appropriations bill that he didn’t like and appears to be just as much a careerist as the rest of them, if not more.

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      Outside Washington, Mr. Murtha, a Vietnam veteran and longtime hawk, may be best known for his break with the president over the Iraq war last fall. But inside the Capitol, he is best known for turning earmarks into power. As the top Democrat on the House military spending subcommittee, he often delivers Democratic votes to Republican leaders in a tacit exchange for earmarks for himself and his allies.

      In the last year, Democratic and Republican floor watchers say, Mr. Murtha has helped Republicans round up enough Democratic votes to narrowly block a host of Democratic proposals: to investigate federal contracting fraud in Iraq, to reform lobbying laws, to increase financing for flood control, to add $150 million for veterans’ health care and job training, and to exempt middle-class families from the alternative minimum tax.

      In one case that particularly irked Democratic partisans, Mr. Murtha led three others in voting against a politically vulnerable Louisiana Democrat’s proposal to divert money intended to be spent on base closings to research prosthetic limbs for veterans. It failed by one vote.

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