If President Obama (cringe) loses this election and Democrats (gasp) lose the majority in the Senate, how should Democrats respond? Should they use the filibuster as much as Teapublicans? Should they follow the Teapublicans example and automatically oppose everything President (choke) Romney supports.
It would be fitting. But Democrats are less wed to ideology than Teapublicans. And they seem to care more about the nations future. After all, how did Al Gore respond when the election was stolen from him in 2000? He didnt make media appearances criticizing President Bush. Instead, he asked Democrats to let it go and pull together for the sake of the nation. And how did Democrats respond when they discovered Bush took us to war in Iraq on false pretenses? Most took the high road.
Senator Conrads admission on Fox News that he advised President Obama to not publicly support the Simpson-Bowles Committees debt-reduction plan for fear that Teapublicans would automatically oppose it should be eye-opening for anyone so insulated as to not have noticed the blind anti-Obama fervor of Teapublicans. They have stonewalled virtually every initiative from the Obama administration from the start. They have even denounced and voted against their own ideas as soon as President Obama appeared to endorse them. Then they falsely accused the administration of not including them in negotiations.
It would be justifiable for Democrats to turn the tables on a Teapublican administration. But what would that accomplish? More partisanship. More acrimony. And more hatred.
But it could be even more harmful to our nation to allow a Teapublican administration and Congress to dismantle Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, to attack Iran, to expand class warfare on the middle class and the poor, to trash our environment, to privatize schools, and to reward the Teapublican’s corporate masters.
Should that circumstance arise, Democrats will be faced with some very difficult decisions.
But we can avoid the problem. Polls tell us that the majority of Americans support Democratic ideas. Let’s make sure that all Democrats and liberal-leaning independents vote!