Reply #14: Exactly, DinahMoeHum. "I punch back." This is exactly what is lacking in the rest of our party.

[breadandwine]

"I punch back," said Grayson in the video.

Where are the other Democrats as Ed asked? Why aren't they acting passionate and PISSED OFF? They are mostly quiet as mice and hiding under the table and in the closet trying to be goody little two-shoes while the GOP continues to punch our lights out. They get angry, they have passion that the angry public relates to and it is the passionate who show up at the polls during midterm elections, since midterm elections are normally poorly attended since there is no presidential race to excite people to go to the polls.

Here's that famous speech from the film, "Network" ----

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dib2-HBsF08&feature=related

Note that Howard is speaking about the depression and the oil crisis. Sound familiar? (Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says we're in a depression RIGHT NOW, not the 1930s kind but the 1870s kind, which had its ups and downs.) Note that Howard is NOT speaking about stupid tea party issues. But today to hear the way the DLC crowd talks, you would think it is some kind of sin to put passion into the political discourse. Grayson is virtually alone in the party while most of the rest are just shuffling along waiting to get pounded in the Fall. We are all supposed to be comatose zombies on prozac wearing smile buttons while the other side punches our lights out day in and day out. Democrats used to get angry but we don't anymore.

So. Do not get emotional. Do not get passionate. Do not fight back. Let the other side win. We can't stoop to their level and we CERTAINLY can't show any guts like Grayson....