Sucking blue whale

Down here in Colorado we are inundated by the same-ol same-ol from Democrats – yeah, Michael Bennet ain’t all that good, but geez! Ken Buck is even worse. These are our two senate candidates. Bennet is a Conservadem campaigning now as a progressive after knocking the real progressive out of the race. It’s a close contest. I voted for the Green candidate.

The lesser-of-evils strategy has worked too well for too long, for Republicans. Democrats succeeded in 2008 in taking control of two branches of government by such large margins that they could have made significant progress in achieving progressive goals. Instead, Obama went Clintonista on us, the 60 Senate Dems allowed the Republicans to block all legislation proposed, and good legislation like EFCA did not even make it to the floor.

They could have done more. They could have done a lot more. But they didn’t. Worse than that, they didn’t fight for us. They are either weasels and cowards of no spinal substance, or they are working against us. Pick-em.

By the way, the House passed quite a bit of good legislation, and it all died in the Senate. The lesson that most people took from that is that the House is a good body that is working hard for us. The actual lesson is a little less inspiring – the House could do anything it wanted, as everything had to pass through the bottleneck in the Senate. Therefore, the powerful forces that control these people pretty much let the House do as it wished. But note that when it came time to pass a very bad piece of legislation, the Health Care Reform Act, The House caved. Power worked its magic.

I know, the usual suspects will say that I “wasted” my vote on a Green candidate. This is true. It was a choice of wastebaskets, and I chose to toss that vote in the clean receptacle. Democrats are going to take a beating this November, but they deserve it. Republicans are going to take hold of many offices, and they will fight for their beliefs. Our choices are people who fight against us, and people who refuse to fight for us.

That sucks. But it is tough-love times, time for the Democrats to take a cold shower. Nothing that is done cannot be undone. There will be suffering and pain, and things will get worse now. In time, either the Democrats will be taken over by fighters, or they will sit on the sidelines watching history go by.

But don’t kid yourself. This coming election, the Democrats will go down, and it is not the fault of progressives. It is the fault of Democrats. They suck … blue whale? Who said that?