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Earlier this afternoon, I received a phone call from a DNC fundraiser who used the BP Oil Disaster as a pitch to donate to the Democratic Party. When I answered the call from an Austin, TX based number, the woman on the other end promptly thanked me for my past support, and asked if I would like to renew my commitment to the DNC.
I first chuckled, before saying, "No, thank you. I would like the Democratic Party to do something useful before I donate to it again."
The fundraiser replied, "Well, have you been following the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf?"
"Yes," I said. "I’ve been following it quite closely and have been writing on it as well."
"Do you know that BP is turning to the Grand Ole Party for help?" the fundraiser asked me.
At that point, I should have pressed her further for why exactly my donation to the DNC would stop BP from getting help from Republicans. Instead, frustrated that the Democratic Party was shamelessly using the BP disaster for its own gain, and asking for money that will inevitably make its way to help Big Oil apologists like Mary Landrieu, I ended the conversation.
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That’s funny. I say the same thing when the RNC asks me for money. These days I contribute to whatever candidate Jim DeMint recommends instead.
JIm Who?
What if they gave an election and nobody came? *G*
IF a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it does it make a sound?? *G*
That tree’s my firewood, my cooking fuel, and I’m making good phud so leave my tree ALOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNEE!
*G*
Coincidentally I wrote to the DNC myself today. DADT. DOMA. Guantanamo. Cornhusker Nelson. Lieberman on committee. No Public Option. Afghanistan. Nope…not a damn dime.
BlueFlorida: right to the point. Good stuff. :o)
And, Becca and Strangely…
That’s going to be what the dems offer us:
“Vote for us! The republicans are even worse!”
I think, and hope, that the voters will tell them to go shit in their hats, when they pitch it. It’s the only thing that will register with our dear “centrists”.
The problem is that they learn the wrong lesson: “Oh, no! Republicans won, so we must be even more corporatist!”
Nonsense. It’s just part of their game. The Dems use a GOP majority to move further Right and when they’re the majority, they use the need for bipartisian support to move to the Right. It’s a rigged deck.
It’s not learning the wrong lesson, it’s the game they play.
What’s their excuse for being the screamiong corporatists they are now? I mean they have the WH, House, and Senate.
DNC keeps sending me a survey on Obama’s performance. I gave up after 3 of them. I guess they didn’t like all the “poor” ratings, the comments and the “NOT ONE DIME” in huge felt tip pen letters over the donation section. I let my Luddite answering machine take care of the robocalls.
Dear Ester’s Follies or The Velveeta Room, come on over– we’ve got some great material for your next skit right here. May the merry mocking continue!
P.S. The sure mark of a Veal Pen group is that an outsourced, contracted-with-no-benefits, minimum wage-paid worker through some temp agency is standing out in the rain trying to drum up dollar$ for them. Every time someone with a clip board tries to stop me on the street (they haunt the last few viable shopping districts rather predictably), they aren’t real pleased when I home-in on their outsourced, contracted-with-no-benefits, minimum wage-paid worker out-standing-in-the-rain status before we even broach the “official” reason they are out there (“we need more members, please give us your direct deposit now!”). Yargh!
“At that point, I should have pressed her further for why exactly my donation to the DNC would stop BP from getting help from Republicans”
Because Obama is trying to outdo the Republicans:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/obam-j29.shtml
Why use Republicans when BP can get everything they want from Democrats.
Well, don’t complain if the Republicans get back in.
what effing difference would it make ?
We are seeing what it is like to have the GOP in power… indefinite detention,HCR that gives the HCI the upper hand and oh yes…..trying to cut social security…while non-stop funding for 2 effing wars…How about weak financial regulation where the big banks remain big….how about a mortgage program that was supposed to help home owners but helps the financial institutions instead…..and ordinary home owners are slowly finding ‘emselves homeless…..
We are already seeing what a corporate shill is doing…..we are living under it already.. makes absolutely no difference if the GOP gets in power,they are all corporate whores.
Don’t forget assassinating Americans at will. I want my habeas corpus back.
I’ve instructed the DNC to take me off their phone and mailing lists. They’ve obeyed. I am the democratic block captain for two orphan blocks in my precinct and will continue to support local democrats. The DNC not at all.
I didn’t realize they left. The Democrats have quite a racket going on between indefinite detentions, drone assassinations, cheering on BP and corporate welfare for the healthcare industry, which all these things going on just sound like Bush’s third term.
…don’t complain if the Republicans get back in.
Obama’s doing his damnedest to insure it.
While it is very difficult (in my view) to defeat the small minded d’s who hold office to no great result from the left (primaries). Sharon and Michelle and Sarah and the rest of their ilk will be better targets by BETTER Democrats in a future cycle. I would prefer if organized labor would establish the framework of a labor/peace party to replace the current fiasco called the Democrats.
The leadership of organized labour is in bed with the neoliberals. If the rank and file tried to build a party the leadership would take action against them.
As a political strategy, blackmail just doesn’t work. “Vote for us, or the country gets it”?
Or the even better, “oh, so you want Palin to be president.”
Michael, I wish you had busted her chops, then asked for her supervisor, busted THAT person’s chops, then asked for the regional acolyte and busted THAT mutha’s chops.
Next time you need help with that progression, call me.
I’ll back you up to infinity.
I live for the opportunity.
;-)
Thanks for the read . . . love yer stuff, keep it coming . . .
Hey, Michael. Heard ya on Counterspin Monday. My community radio station airs it a week late. Saves ‘em a few bucks and better late than never.
The Dems are using the “BS Strategy” (bully and scare) to get the base out to vote. I was amazed to hear Bill Press on his radio show this morning say that Americans don’t appreciate Obama, that we want him to do all the things he promised immediately, and our impatience shows we’re “spoiled”.
My god, that’s Sharon Angle’s word! Remember her accusation that people collecting unemployment are “spoiled?”
I don’t think “the BS” is going to work this time.