Democrats, Listen Up

Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and I often find room for disagreement but last night he hit the nail right on the head. In considering the Virginia, New Jersey, and other elections yesterday Markos summarizes points for us Democrats to understand.

1. If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid for unnecessary "bipartisanship", you will lose votes.

2. If you water down reform in favor of Blue Dogs and their corporate benefactors, you will lose votes.

3. If you forget why you were elected -- health care, financial services, energy policy and immigration reform -- you will lose votes.

We as a party need to return to our base and begin to look out for the people. If party leadership continues to pander to the right and to corporate interests more and more elections may be lost in the future.

Peace.