All the mainstream media's analyst and pundits are predicting a blood bath for the Democratic Party this coming election. The Democratic Party is now scrambling in the final hours to try to get their supporters to get to vote on November 2. They are reminding us how scary those nutty Tea Bagger candidates are and that we can't allow those extremist to take power. And yes I agree those Tea Baggers are fucking scary but if the Republicans and the Tea Baggers take over the House and Senate, it will be the fault of the spineless and corrupt Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party was put in power in 2006 to change the course that the counry was on. But as soon as the Democrats won control of congress in 2006, they immediately started making excuses that they couldn't bring about the changes they promised because they didn't have big enough majorities in congress and plus they needed to keep their powder dry and focus on winnig the White house in 2008 in order to bring about true change and reform. So in 2008 the supporters of the Democratic Party went to work and got out the vote and the Democratic Party won the White house and huge majorities in the house and senate. But what happen? As soon as the Democratic Party gained power they started to walk back the promises they had made to their base and basically continue business as usual.
So now as we fast forward to 2010, the Democratic Party's base has basically lost faith in the Democratic Party. They no longer trust the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party base do not like the Tea Baggers but they are no longer fired up to go out and vote for the Democrats either.
Democrats started breaking their promises to their base as soon as they gained control of congress in 2006 and it continued under President Obama. Here are a few examples of Democrat politicians turning their backs on their supporters in an attempt to appease the Washington insiders, big business interest and uphold the status quo:
Four years ago John Conyers was all talk about investigating the Bush Administration for lying the nation into a war in Iraq. Prior to the 2006 elections, he even signed on as co sponsor to one or more bills to impeach Bush and Cheney for waging illegal wars to torture. But as soon as John Conyers became chairman of the House Judiciary Committe, the coward did complete about face and Bush and Cheney got off scott free. And with Obama basically continuing most of the Bush foreign policies, the Democratic Party has essentially legalized the atrocities of Bush and Cheney.
In 2006, the party base was expecting the Democrats to end the illegal wars but instead in 2007 the Iraq war was escalated under a Democratic controlled congress, and in 2009 the Afghanistan war was escalated under a Democratic controlled congress and Whitehouse. So things remained business as usual on the war front.
The bank bailouts were passed under the Democratic controlled congress, candidate Obama even left the campaign trail to go to Washington to bring some reluctant Democrats on board.
Democrats never passed the Employee Free Choice Act. Despite a massive Latino vote in 2006 and 2008, that community has nothing to show for its efforts but higher fences, drones on the border, and more deportations.
I guess the final straw for the Democratic Party voters was the watered down Health Care bill with no Single Payer and no Public option. They sold out to the Insurance and Pharmaceutical companies.
If you throw in the weak bill the Democrats passed to regulate the Wall Street and the Financial industry and the way they have shunned the LGBT community, it's not hard to figure out why Democratic Party voters are not excited this November.
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