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Monday, November 09, 2009

Give me more good government

E.J. Dionne Jr. takes on the anti-government crowd:

Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose.

This is what happened in two statewide referendums last week that got buried under all of the attention paid to the governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey. In Maine, voters rejected a tax-limitation measure by a walloping 60 percent to 40 percent. In Washington state, a similar measure went down, 57 percent to 43 percent...
But will President Obama and his party take the lesson and go on offense against the simple-minded anti-government screeds now getting so much play?

I have always though that Democrats should make a stronger pitch for good government, rather than join the Republicans in criticizing Washington.

Permalink| Posted @ 11:16 AM |

Comments:

A girl friend and I have often thought the same... we question 'why?' Why doesn't the D take a real stand? Why do they play the game or become mute? She says that there is too much disidence within the party, that no one can agree enough to stand together, and that with the R, no matter how they disagree on some details or even greater issues, they will stand together because they understand the tactic of being team players. Republicans will all stand together shouting the same speech while they are trying for something, whatever is more popular they will all follow. But the Democrats are too busy bickering amongst themselves over the smaller issues and will divide their team in hushed tones that the masses catch onto quick. They need to get some understanding of what it takes to make changes. That is the only reason I can even see that Republican party has survived in its state, because even though many of them disagree with each other,for the press and for a project they will not falter.

# posted by

dawn : 2:14 PM

Good points but don't hold your breath -- Dem's leadership aren't the ballbusters sometimes I wish they were.

# posted by

VictorM : 7:11 PM

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