Dems dont understand unwritten scripts
Every Dem in the Legislature should be given a book on tape of the Political Mind by George Lakoff, and a copy of his commentary yesterday at Kos.
the electorate was NOT saying cut cut cut, we were saying majority rule is the way to go.
I voted all NO, and I have voted for a gooper only once in my lifetime, and he was a personal friend.
link here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/...
The Democratic leadership should listen to its grassroots.
They should immediately stop negotiating with the governor and other Republicans on how to destroy even more of what makes our state human. The Democrats, as a whole body, not just the leadership, should assert their majority, decide for themselves how they want to deal with the shortfall, and then invite the defeated Republicans publicly to join them and take their proposals to the public, first organizing serious grassroots support.
What is the point of doing this if the Democrats still don't have the 2/3 votes to pass a budget bill? The point is drama! Most Californians are not aware of the minority rule situation. This could dramatize it and place the blame where it belongs. Drama matters. There might still be a later compromise. But the drama would set the stage for a 2010 ballot initiative.
The Democratic leadership should immediately take the initiative on a 2010 ballot measure, a supremely simple one-sentence measure. It would go something like this:
All budgetary and revenue issues shall be decided by a majority vote in both houses of the legislature. |
