SICK OF HEARING ME BARKING ABOUT RAHM BEING THE SAME AS DELAY? HERE'S MAGS WITH ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW

RAHM IS NO ROVE

-by Mags

On the heels of the massive success of the electorate to speak in one mighty voice for change. The power struggle begins inside the Democratic Party. Rahm Emmanuel would love to step center stage to accept Rove like adulation as if one person were to be congratulated for the tsunami that was Tuesday’s election. But, wait a minute.

If the American people can learn nothing, I have hope that we can and did learn one thing, that we are our own heroes. Our propensity for selecting the leaders for praise and honor is often times what stands in our way. We find a person with the money to buy an image, and then we entrust them with the keys to our kingdom so we can get back to work, and back to our families. I know it is human nature, but this is a time when we need to fight our own natures, our tendency to walk away thinking that those we charge to do our business will have the will to complete the task, stay on target.


The lesson of Karl Rove ought to be a stark reminder to us that our boy geniuses tend to be more boy than genius, puffed up sell outs who have more money and power than their abilities warrant. That sort of influence comes from pleasing the few, certainly not the many. The truth is that it takes all of us working together to make the changes Americans are hungry for happen. Karl Roves and Rahm Emmanuels can step forward and pretend to be our champions, but in the end we know it is more about them than us.

This is our chance to keep involved, to continue the conversation begun between us and the lawmakers we put into office and with each other. Let’s keep the phone numbers of our legislators in our wallets, and their email addresses in our Outlook address book. It is time for us to be in contact not only when there is a fire, but on a regular basis. Can we work in our parties regularly and not only at election time?

It is time for us to educate ourselves and our neighborhoods and our communities. This is something we can do. In fact, the very bloggers, broadcasters both television and liberal talk radio, and army of citizenry that helped to bring this country’s balance of power back into alignment have begun this effort already. More and more people find our sites, watch the commentary on television and talk about it in their communities. We have been talking issues. We have been blogging policy whether it is acknowledged or not.

We have been accused over and over of not having a plan. But, the truth is that we have lots of plans. We have many ideas. The truth is that the voices of our representatives and our own voices have been repressed, relegated to the back of the room, or in some cases relegated to the basement as happened many times as Democrats ran their own hearings because the Republicans would not allow the light of day to shine on issues important to all the people.

The people have proven that they cannot be fooled all the time. As I have maintained all along, we are better than what we were seeing, that if the people understood the danger and if people saw the truth, they would rise up, they would hold leaders accountable. Right now we are hearing from those within the power structure who want to rush forward to quickly grab the center stage, the spotlight that does not belong to them. It belongs to us. It belongs to our children. The government belongs to us, not to the personalities within the halls of power who want to grab for more power and more influence.

We won this not so Rahm Emmanuel and Chuck Schumer could tell U.S. what our agenda is, but so we could tell THEM what our agenda is. That is why we fought to win this election. We won the right to be heard, not to be told. We won the right for a national conversation and if need be a sense of national justice in the face of our victimization by the Bush Administration. And, when we have had a few days to regroup, to finish celebrating our rewon freedom, our rebirth as a nation, then we will communicate among ourselves, and we will communicate with leadership.

In our minds this was not about rights, middles, or even lefts. This was about fighting again, reclaiming again our birthright, a responsive government, a government that responds to the needs and desires of its people. Damn the establishment. Damn the star struck power greedy who would sell their souls and our collective well being by peddling their influence to the highest bidder. This is our government. We own it; it is ours. We can no longer entrust it to others. George Bush asked us to go about our business and leave the details to him. Well, that would be a mistake, but it is equally dangerous to leave it up to a few in the Democratic Party. We had a great object lesson about power. Our strong suit is having a clue about reality. We know you need us to keep you honest.

We have an agenda. We have plans. We know what we need. Have some manners, Rahm; think about who this is about, Chuck. We will let you know what is on OUR minds. We can tell YOU what this election was about.