I can't find where ANY republicans have been receptive to calls for 'unity' from Clinton & Obama [View All]

I don't give a damn about unifying or working with the republican opposition. And, I'm left wondering just WHO these republican politicians ARE they envision 'working together' with for 'change' on issues and legislation which republicans have, so far, been unified in OBSTRUCTING. Hasn't the present Democratic leadership done all they could to 'reach out' to republicans and have been rejected and ignored?

What we need is for voters to elect more Democrats so that our party will be able to better dictate priorities and action in Congress. I don't see the point in telling voters that our nominee is going to come in to office and bend to the obstructionists. That's not leadership, it's wishy-washy, unprincipled surrender to those in the opposition party who have been blocking reforms and accountability for their political gain, at our expense.

This notion of 'unity' with the republican opposition -- whose members have evolved into nothing but shills for their corporate and fundamentalist Christian benefactors -- is a fantasy at best; and an outright sham, if it's applied in any way to the republican party which opposes us today. It's a nauseating appeal and a shameful retreat from the BATTLES all of us have been waging against the thievery from the entrenched republican, corporatist class which has taken over our government -- ushered in by the Bush administration and enabled by their relentless assaults on our democracy.

If there is to be any real change in the way Washington does our nation's business, it will have to come from the efforts of legislators who are willing to turn their backs on the entrenched interests and put the interests of the voters at the top of their agenda. There shouldn't be a rush to elevate the agenda of the opposition to some kind of parity with our own party's proposals or platform by giving their politically constructed obstruction the credence of a legitimate position for debate.

The elevation of our Democratic candidate to the White House should be a resounding rejection of the corporatism which has infected our government in the last decade. We shouldn't be 'reaching out' to ANY of those industry interests privileged by this generation of republicans. We have no responsibility to give a moment's priority to the defense industry warmongers, the pharmaceutical industry obstructionists, the insurance industry shills, the oil industry executives . . .

Our elected Democrats' most important and enduring obligation is to those individual Americans who vote to enable them into office. Those are the people I want to see our president reaching-out to. Those are the people I want our president to unify with. I don't give a damn about unifying with the republican opposition.


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