I need help for my blood pressure

by: jterley

Fri May 13, 2011 at 21:03:43 PM EDT

This hasn't been a good day for my blood pressure. I began listenint to Public Radio's "Ask the Guv"  and was totally amazed at Snyder's chutzpah.

 "Schools don't deserve funding because they haven't produced..."

"Larger public agencies should be able to get out of their collective bargaining agreements by consolidating services with smaller ones..."

"We all have to sacrifice...by taking away tax credits for poor folks..."

Then the minority leader comes on and admits that she and the Democrats have no plan for future solvency, except perhaps to beg the GOP not to completely decimate the schools.

 And the Democrats refuse to support a recall because people might be "disappointed." Disappointed isn't half of it--Democrats!

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The real problem with the Michigan Democratic Party (apart from Brewer, whom I'm beginning to suspect might be a Koch troll) is that we haven't learned to verbalize our positions in terms that our neighbors might understand.

From that standpoint, there would be nothing so effective as a recall campaign--whether it succeeded or whether it  served as a rehearsal. Put three or four firm principles on a note card, and encourage every volunteer to talk about them to neighbors and co-workers. I live in a district that elected Dr. Benicek without every exploring what his positions would do to the folks who live in MI-1. No one talked about it! Here's what we got.

For our part, what little we have to give will NEVER go to the Michigan Democratic Party again. It will be channeled to progressives with backbones and voices.