maineman
Banned
If one were to compare the last two major shifts in the congressional balance of power: 1994 and 2006, there are some striking differences.
In 1994, Newt Gingrich and the cast of republican congressional candidates and their ingeneous Contract with America, were able to energize the right.
In 2006, the democrats, by using the inept and divisive track record of those republicans, were able to capture the middle which the republican party had become increasingly dismissive of over their dozen years in the limelight.
The republicans will not be able to recapture that middle by being MORE "right" but only by moderating their extreme positions on foreign policy, on tax policy, and on social justice and social equity issues and moving back towards the center.
We, as democrats, will not attempt to cram any uber-socialist agenda down America's throat. We will propose moderate changes and improvements that will be acceptable and welcomed by that middle, and Bush will veto them at the further peril of his party.
One hopes that the bluster of Hannity and Limbaugh and Dixie et.al. will rapidly wither away and calmer, more moderate republican voices will make themselves heard.
In 1994, Newt Gingrich and the cast of republican congressional candidates and their ingeneous Contract with America, were able to energize the right.
In 2006, the democrats, by using the inept and divisive track record of those republicans, were able to capture the middle which the republican party had become increasingly dismissive of over their dozen years in the limelight.
The republicans will not be able to recapture that middle by being MORE "right" but only by moderating their extreme positions on foreign policy, on tax policy, and on social justice and social equity issues and moving back towards the center.
We, as democrats, will not attempt to cram any uber-socialist agenda down America's throat. We will propose moderate changes and improvements that will be acceptable and welcomed by that middle, and Bush will veto them at the further peril of his party.
One hopes that the bluster of Hannity and Limbaugh and Dixie et.al. will rapidly wither away and calmer, more moderate republican voices will make themselves heard.