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[Notorious AAT]

So if we are getting back into the writing thing...here is a little
something i wrote for NBC that never made it up on the web. I figured
who better to share it with than my incredibly intelligent friends.
Dont worry...its pretty short.

Click on http://groups.google.com/group/SACSIYU/web/democrats-energy-policy
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

[bmon...@gmail.com]

Pretty interesting...
One of the regular debates I've been having with my Republican father
has been the choice to put Pelosi and Reid at the front of the party.
He maintains, and my more centrist mother tends to agree, that
spotlighting the most extreme party members was a huge mistake on the
part of the Democrats. With Pelosi, she was the most senior member,
and so that does explain the decision there. But Reid is just a
liberal version of any hardcore conservative politician. Setting up
opposing camps at extreme ends of the battlefield is going to get the
party, and the country, nowhere.

The vast majority of Americans reside somewhere in the middle of party
politics and to send Harry Reid up to the mic as soon as the
Republicans hand it over is like a slap in the face. Yes, the last
election demonstrated that Americans want a change. But this kind of
politicking is so terribly counterproductive. We know the president
is an arrogant, corrupt ass. We know we need big changes. But
proposing legislation that is doomed to failure is a waste of time and
money. If the Democrats want to hold onto what they've got, they need
to recognize that most people don't think like Harry Reid. As one
Republican put it, if they Democrats can't win the presidency in 2008,
then they'll never win it.