{"id":1417,"date":"2005-03-18T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T17:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/18\/three-quick-steps-to-being-pissed-off-by-the-democrats\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T09:02:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T17:02:01","slug":"three-quick-steps-to-being-pissed-off-by-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Three quick steps to being pissed off by the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>STEP ONE<\/strong>: Go and read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/03\/10\/1518256\">this debate<\/a> between NOW head honchette Kim Gandy and Democratic Party biggish-wig Phil Singer (link via <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/001047.html\">Feministing<\/a>).  I was struck by this comment, by Gandy, about who is and who isn&#8217;t expected to take it in the teeth for the good of the Democratic Party:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think the Democratic leadership is trying to say, &#8216;We have a big tent,&#8217; and it&#8217;s my rights that are being used to demonstrate the big tent. I don&#8217;t see them out there recruiting anti-organized labor candidates. I don&#8217;t see them out there recruiting candidates that are opposed to civil rights or affirmative action. I only see them out there, as with Langevin and Casey in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania respectively, recruiting candidates who are opposed to women&#8217;s reproductive rights over good, solid statewide elected officials that support the whole range of democratic values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>STEP TWO<\/strong>:  Go read the Left Coaster&#8217;s modest proposal for another compromise: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleftcoaster.com\/archives\/003915.php\">Democrats Must Find the &#8220;Evolutionary Middle.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP THREE<\/strong>: Laugh or weep? You decide. Hell, do both if you want. Rest assured, the Democrats don&#8217;t care either way.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Optional step four<\/em>: Take that &#8220;third party&#8221; idea out of the closet and give it a good dusting. Hey, it&#8217;s looking better now, isn&#8217;t it?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEP ONE: Go and read this debate between NOW head honchette Kim Gandy and Democratic Party biggish-wig Phil Singer (link via Feministing). I was struck by this comment, by Gandy, about who is and who isn&#8217;t expected to take it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1417\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}