The name for Senator Harry Reid’s site is telling enough. Shouldn’t politics be about working together for answers rather than “giving them hell”? That’s one of the many reasons why the Democratic party has faltered - the party stands less for America and more for itself.
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I call BS here. This is just politics as usual here, not some unique-to-the-Democrats thing. If anything, the Democratic party has faltered because the GOP is much better at avoid-the-real-issues attack politics than the Democrats are.
And before you go tossing out “stands less for America and more for itself” allegations, methinks you should look at the plank in thine own party’s eye. How many times has this administration put politics and partisan interests before the security and interests of the American people? Too many to count.
TGIRSCH:
I’m sure we could play the hypocrite card all day. In fact, I play that card many times when I visit leanleft - trying to point out the hypocricy of when the left does the same thing you accuse the right of.
I don’t deny that the right plays the same game, but my general impression is that the left plays much dirtier - that’s one of the many (soft) reasons why I have issues with the party.
My issue with Reid’s web site name is that it is automatically divisive. If I were a Republican in his state, why would I want to listen to anything he has to say when he is clearly drawing a line in the sand?
The left plays dirtier? Come on! When was the last time someone on the left accused anyone who disagreed with their policies as “sympathizing with terrorists?” The right does this all the time. They denigrate the patriotism of anyone who dares to question them.
And the right doesn’t even reserve this treatment for the left: just look at what the Bush campaign did to McCain in 2000.
Sure, the left is plenty guilty of taking cheap shots, but if they’ve ever sunk to that level, I sure haven’t seen it.
Couldn’t this just be a reminder of Harry S. Truman’s legacy in the party? Harken back to the Democrat “good old days”?
I’m not a Democrat, but I’ll give them a pass on this one.
Actually, you are correct - that’s where Reid got his inspiration for the site name. Nonetheless, for me the phrase does not inspire the American patriotic spirit as much as bringing to mind typical Washington political bickering.