Some wisdom from Kos

[bluestateguy]

Kos on the Democratic leadership's sellout in Congress:

I've got to say, of all the things that get me down about this job, there's nothing worse than the people who want to quit the game and take their ball home every time we face a setback. It's as if every word I've ever written about this being a long-term battle means zero. As if it's instant gratification or nothing.

We face a multiple-front war -- against conservatives, against an out-of-touch and corrupt beltway consultant class, against corporatist Democrats, or Democrats that long ago lost the fire in their belly, and against a compromised punditry elite. Those are tough opponents, and it'll be a decades-long fight.

Did any of you really think we won that war in 2006? I sure as heck didn't. 2006 was incremental improvement, just as 2008 will be. And hopefully 2010. Along the way, we'll likely lose some ground, but we must always remain focused on the long term.

The conservative movement spent three decades building up their machine and completing the takeover of their party. And some of you want to quit after one setback?

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/23/115722/692

[Parche]

1. PISSED

As much as we are pissed off right now about the whole situation, I was always
taught and lived my life with the philosphy of never giving up.
Sometimes we all get mad and want to give up, if nothing is going right.
KOS rings true.


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"Is this the day? Is this the beginning of the end? There is no time to wonder, no time to ask, 'Why is it happening, why is it finally happening?' There is time only for fear, for the piercing pain of panic. Do we pray? Or do we merely run now, and pray later? Will there be a later? Or is this the day?"

"Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque. It will have been at least a lesson—a lesson at last to be learned."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. One setback??? His short term memory is in need of repair.

It's a long series of "setbacks", sellouts, and pandering to the right.

[quinnox]

3. He has to say that

His income depends on it. This is his job, the politics web site, even if he wanted to split from the Dems he couldn't.

[MiaCulpa]

4. I would expect nothing less from the great orange satan. n/t

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[VP505]

5. Philosophically

true but its awfully hard not to see it a little differently when in reality the list of setbacks is very very long and NOT just a single setback as he suggests.