Democrat Talk

It is an election year and the rich have those financial goodies to hand-out, campaign contributions. The Bush era tax cuts on the rich are set to expire at the end of 2010. President Obama wants to let them expire. He has the idea that the Treasury could use the increase revenue. Moderate Democrats are saying: Wait a minute Sens. Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson and. Kent Conrad are leading the save the rich tax cut movement and observers are predicting that the Democrats are very most unlikely to disappoint the rich by repealing the Bush tax cuts.

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So on MSNBC's Hardball tonight, Chris Matthews sat with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md. to discuss. the Democratic voters' enthusiasm gap. See the video.

My take on a Democratic enthusiasm gap? America can't afford to have one. And why does it exist?

We we are told that Republicans have been better at communicating their message, firing up their base, and because President Obama has not delivered on his lofty goals, many fair weather Democrats plan to stay home on election day.

Well, Democrats can't afford an enthusiasm gap. Democrats certainly can't afford to not get to the polls and vote.

Progressive may not be all that enthusiastic about President Obama, but how enthusiastic will they be about a Republican Congress with a large Tea Party component?

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Ain't No Time for Fighting

Less than ninety days before the mid-terms, and key and vital elections, is not the time for fighting. Too often when Democrats lose, political fighting is an internal affair. When an army gets ready to go into combat, the general staff doesn't start shooting at the troops.

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Write down the name Bill Delahunt. He is the kind of Democrat who gives the party a bad name, as the party of pickpockets, whom are out to pick the pockets of Americans -- as a gang of killjoys out to rob America of "the pursuit of Happiness."

This man Delahunt is on the hunt for new ways to tax, like a mad max tax man, driven by the misguided desire to tax Americans to the limit. Does he want to tax until America can not stand? He rides at the head of a horde of mad maxes, followers / worshipers of the gods of taxation, whom are out to tax America beyond the max. If he gets his way, he could leave the countryside and the economy, during the time of what maybe a double recession, in a wreck. Is this a stretch? No.

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