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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
It is amusing to me that not one person has considered that the Rs were doing exactly what their constituents wanted them to, and that is why they are not paying the price politically for their tactics.
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Isn't it much more complicated than that? Representatives have a whole lot of constituents, some of whom are more vocal and engaged than others. The squeaky wheels get the grease. I think that GOP Representatives have a lot of constituents who are Democrats, and they have a lot of constituents who are unaffiliated or otherwise on the fence. Maybe if they heard more from the former, and the issues got press attention heard by the latter, it would change their perceptions of what their constituents.
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Likewise, no one has postulated that, perhaps, they way that Democrats go about their business, was in any way a proximate cause of the loss of the Senate, House, Presidency, and numerous state legislatures and Governorships.
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Obviously it was. Have I not complained about that? At the same time, we are coming off an election in which Democrats gained seats in the House, gained seats in the Senate, and won the popular vote. One can go too far in positing that the current legislative arrangements reflect public sentiment.
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I know not many of you live in deep red states, but the idea of anyone mobilizing voters to hold R's accountable in many areas of the country is laughable. Especially when it comes from people who think that McCain used to be filled with integrity and that he's the one that was punished for such. Isn't that inconsistent with the common agreement that everybody, including the GOP Senators, hates Ted Cruz? Lindsay Graham just got around to apologizing for his killing Cruz on the Senate floor joke. I don't think my Congressman (who sucks, btw) would be persuaded by calls to act any differently. My calls regarding his participation in the GOP failure theater and pointless show votes that don't really matter, but then capitulating on matters of substance seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
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With the current Senate, you only need to convince three Republican Senators to make a difference.
And part of the point of organizing is strategic, not tactical -- it's shaping the narrative of the next two and four years, for the elections that follow. There are good and bad ways to lose.
