Like millions of Democrats, coast-to-coast, I wondered: what the hell was the point of holding out through 40 tortuous days of shutdown horrors, only to cave just five days after an eyepopping series of uplifting landslide election results?
Note: "Cave," meaning to give up and collapse into a steaming heap. To utterly capitulate. To duck down and slither away. Ouch!
So I cut off the TV and went to bed. However, before I fell asleep I asked the ghosts of Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert F. Kennedy, Jackie Robinson, Luis Buñuel, and others, "what in the world was the point?"
This morning everything changed after I watched/listened to Sen. Tim Kaine on Morning Joe. Kaine is a leader in the new gang of eight Democrats who have launched a new reopening-the-government-strategy.
In addition to Kaine, the Gang includes: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Sen. Dick Durbin, Sen, Maggie Hassan, Sen. Angus King, Sen. Jacky Rosen, Sen. Catherine Masto and Sen. John Fetterman. Anyway, after I write them out, I will post several of my reasons for totally agreeing with Kaine, et al.
Preview: Basically, right now I think Kaine understands the particular time and place the Democrats are in much better than does Sen. Chuck Schumer. I also think Kaine is more of a problem-solver than he is an ideologue.
Dig it: Kaine has gotten us out of a damn rut. Now there's movement and we'll soon see how he and his cohorts will spend whatever political capital they are amassing by creating what may be a solution-in-progress.
Cheers...
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Words and art by F. T. Rea
1 comment:
Hope so. Thanks for the post.
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