Comments on: The New Nattering Nabobs of Negativity http://blog.communitycatalyst.org/index.php/2009/12/17/the-new-nattering-nabobs-of-negativity/ A Blog by Community Catalyst Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:07:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A reader on the left http://blog.communitycatalyst.org/index.php/2009/12/17/the-new-nattering-nabobs-of-negativity/comment-page-1/#comment-356 A reader on the left Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:54:06 +0000 http://blog.communitycatalyst.org/?p=282#comment-356 What to some is "real-world policy give and take" is to many others "a complete betrayal of principle and the promises upon which you were elected." What Dean et al are objecting to is not "Giving _any_ ground" - it's giving even more ground when to date so much ground has been already given up. How much is too much? Even one has their point of too-far, and for Dean, Olbermann, Kos, and the like to say "this is too far" makes them absolutely nothing like the Tea Baggers, and it's a deeply insulting of the Democrats and mainstream health reform groups perpetual taking progressives for granted. This may be as good as we can get right now, it may be better than nothing, but it's not ridiculous to say that giving too much away is simply giving too much away. Why aren't you decrying Lieberman and Nelson with the same fervor you're decrying Dean? The former are the _real_ naysayers, and shame on the Democrats for capitulating to them. What to some is “real-world policy give and take” is to many others “a complete betrayal of principle and the promises upon which you were elected.”

What Dean et al are objecting to is not “Giving _any_ ground” – it’s giving even more ground when to date so much ground has been already given up. How much is too much? Even one has their point of too-far, and for Dean, Olbermann, Kos, and the like to say “this is too far” makes them absolutely nothing like the Tea Baggers, and it’s a deeply insulting of the Democrats and mainstream health reform groups perpetual taking progressives for granted.

This may be as good as we can get right now, it may be better than nothing, but it’s not ridiculous to say that giving too much away is simply giving too much away. Why aren’t you decrying Lieberman and Nelson with the same fervor you’re decrying Dean? The former are the _real_ naysayers, and shame on the Democrats for capitulating to them.

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