Republicans are playing Democrats like a fiddle

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56. But we don't have to fit the "we are all the same" partisan BSers responding to it!...

The problem is if we respond in a partisan manner that just points back fingers at Republicans and not at the whole system of both parties when they both are part of the wrong doing, we fall in to the trap the Republicans want us to fall in to and legitimize their partisan crap, because we engage in it too then.

Time to stop the partisan crap, point out how they are all about doing that to Obama, but point out that we aren't going to be *stupid* partisans in supporting WRONG policies by this administration and other compromised Democrats as well, and that we have a higher set of standards we expect Democrats to play by, and we won't accept that makes them "more wrong" than Republicans when we call them to answer for these mistakes more than the Republican base calls their jerks to the carpet for screwing their base as well as the country at the same time in a partisan manner.

Domestic spying without warrant or cause is WRONG. We should never support anyone doing it.
Cutting social security is WRONG and doesn't help bring down our deficit. We shouldn't support our party or Republicans doing it.
Outsourcing jobs or supporting illegal employers or those that want to use slave labor "guest worker" programs so that the elites can get wealthier at all of our expense is WRONG, and doesn't deserve our support or shouldn't be used to "trade" for other partisan issue resolution.

The list goes on, but we need to be adamant that our party support us on these ISSUES! and if they don't, then we need to primary them.

And with the gerrymandering that has gone on in the last few elections, there should be far more districts where loyal democrats are all pushed in to, we should be able to get more truly progressive Democrats elected in those districts, and if any of them have remnants of more "diverse" districts before that are playing these corporatist games, they should be primaried and replaced with an Alan Grayson style candidate. Dennis Kucinich needs a new home. There should be an opportunity to give him one that will get rid of a corporate Democrat in the process where we no longer "need" one. Building up a stronger progressive caucus should be the first step towards taking back America and this party that has many members that don't feel they owe us anything and are more beholden to corporate America.