{"id":1083,"date":"2006-05-06T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:45","slug":"for_the_good_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"For The Good Of The Party – And The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

God help me, I’m 100% in agreement with a Daily Kos diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘orthogonal’ says:<\/p>\n

Here’s the problem folks: most Americans who aren’t partisans truly believe the democrats and The Republicans are “all the same” and that the power-elite takes care of its own.<\/p>\n

\nDemocrats can talk about Abramoff and Cunningham and the Republicans’ toothless ethics bill, but so long as the People see us as just the “other side of the coin”, they have little reason to go to the polls to vote for Dems.<\/p>\n

\nNow we’ve got Congressman William Jefferson who despite allegations of bribery won’t resign, and Patrick Kennedy who announces he’s “going to vote” and so dodges a Breathalyzer test, and now will go into rehab rather than resign.<\/p>\n

\nThis gives all the justification in the world to independents who will say that the Dems are “just as bad” and that “all of them are corrupt”.<\/p>\n

\nThe Democratic Party needs to show it’s different, that it’s not a club of the elite taking care of the elite.<\/p>\n

\nMuch as I feel for Congressman Kennedy, it’s time for him for his own good and for the good of the Party, to resign with dignity.<\/b> <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve said much the same thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As I’ve said, I think there’s an opportunity for the Democrats to use this and make both moral and political progress – but it will require cleaning their own house first. I think that’s a smart political move, not a dumb one, because it iwll show the American people that they are serious about changing the culture in Washington.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And at dinner with some Democratic friends last week, the topic was raised again – and I’m going to keep saying it.<\/p>\n

The first step on the path to the Democratic Party getting some traction against the GOP on corruption is for the Democrats to hang a few of their own.<\/p>\n

It’s not like there aren’t any corrupt (Moran<\/i>) Democratic (Moran<\/i>) politicians (Moran<\/i>) in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed Liberal agrees with Kos diarist. Children and Democrats are frightened…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}