The process dodge

Posted on August 21, 2011 by myiq2xu (D)


Here’s a golden oldie from Systee at Corrente:

The Democratic Party and the Process Dodge

A common theme in the string of Democratic Party failures over the last years is what I call “Blaming The Process”. Or at least that is the narrative Democratic Party officials use when justifying themselves to the activist base. Something outside of their control, something about the legal, political or media process is actually responsible for the outcomes.

The failure to block the Roberts and Alito nominations, the failure to do anything concrete to end the occupation of Iraq, and now the imminent approval of warrantless domestic surveillance, are somehow not the responsibility of the Democratic elected officials.

The fault is to be found in things like the intricate details of the Filibuster and the Nuclear Option, the military budgeting process, the process whereby the media will utterly destroy any politician they deem to be “soft on terror”.

However much Democratic politicians express their heartfelt desire to do the things their activist base and now the majority of Americans want them to do, the desired outcomes fail to materialize.

In light of this, is it wrong to wonder whether blaming the process is just an excuse and that the politicians are not being entirely honest in their stated intentions?

I know it’s not polite to question people’s motivations. But I think it’s only natural to question a person when what they do does not match what they say. Over and over again.

That was written four years ago and is even more true now than it was then.

“What? You wanted single-payer healthcare? You obviously don’t understand the process. Now STFU and eat your peas!”

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14 Responses

  1. ralphb, on August 21, 2011 at 5:29 pm said:

    OT but we’re screwed…

    The Sad Statistic That Trumps the Others

    Economies won’t grow when productivity is dropping.

    Productivity statistics are hardly exciting reading, but they are important. Our society is wealthy precisely because it can churn out products like automobiles, flush toilets and Google search algorithms at relatively low cost. Productivity slowdowns mean erosion of living standards over the long haul, and they also can lead to short-term crises. If productivity turns out to be much lower than expected, it often means that we have borrowed too much and taken on too much risk. Retrenchment can make a recession longer and deeper.

    The overlooked piece of news came this month from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the second quarter this year, it reported, nonfarm business labor productivity fell by 0.3 percent, the second quarterly drop in a row. And it turns out that it rose only 0.8 percent from the second quarter of 2010. Over the last year, hourly wages have risen more quickly than productivity.

    These factors have helped to keep the labor market sluggish and have thwarted a potential recovery.

    This makes sense today.

    • Dario, on August 21, 2011 at 7:54 pm said:

      That’s not a surprising statistic since productivity can be gained through machinery/software investments or as it was done since 2008, cutting the labor force. There’s no need for for investment because the economy has excess capacity. The lower productivity simply says to me that the economy has slowed down and companies are experiencing excess labor. If that’s the case, expect more jobs lost.

    • Dario, on August 21, 2011 at 7:56 pm said:

      If you’re not a poker player, you may need a poker dictionary to decipher my analogy. And “they” think she doesn’t know how the game of politics is played. The good old boys just never realized that she wasn’t playing by their rules.

      In politics the winner makes the rules.

  3. Dario, on August 21, 2011 at 8:03 pm said:

    I know it’s not polite to question people’s motivations. But I think it’s only natural to question a person when what they do does not match what they say. Over and over again.

    People are finally seeing what I figured out when Pelosi gave away over $700 billions to Bush without any strings attached. All the excuses as to why bills can’t pass the House or the senate, evaporated. Congress worked like a good oiled machine.

  4. ralphb, on August 21, 2011 at 8:41 pm said:

    Tea Party Group Launches Iowa Radio Blitz for Palin Event

    She may not be an official candidate at this point, but Sarah Palin will hit the airwaves in Iowa on Monday, and it’s not going to cost the former Alaska governor a dime.

    Tea Party of America — a recently created group that is hosting a Palin-keynoted rally in the south-central Iowa town of Indianola on Sept. 3 — is launching a major radio blitz in the nation’s first voting state to promote the prospective GOP presidential contender’s attendance at the event.
    …
    Geddes, who was a field staffer for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s 2008 campaign in Iowa before going on to work for former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s now defunct campaign this year, echoed other Iowa political observers in assessing the Palin volunteers’ dedication and quiet competence.

    “They are very organized, and the team they have in place is unlike anything I’ve ever seen in this state before — and I’m totally impressed by the way they’ve gone about it,” she said. “It’s going to be a major upset if she gets in because I think these people are very underestimated.”

    Campaigning without spending a dime using only real volunteers.

    • DandyTiger, on August 21, 2011 at 9:28 pm said:

      Real grassroots vs. the fake kind the Obama machine created. Scares the living shit out of both parties.

    • DandyTiger, on August 21, 2011 at 9:30 pm said:

      That’s what Obama was hired to do. Sadly Obama thinks they’re just behind him because they like him. They’ll drop him in a second if it suits them.

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