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No Quorum With DeLay

Fri Nov 19, 2004 at 10:58:48 AM PDT

If you don't read Charlie Pierce regularly, you should.  In this piece:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

on Eric Alterman's site, he speaks to my political heart.  Today he suggests that the Clintons and DLCer's need to cool it.  Then he suggests a Democratic strategy that is awesome:

"This is not a time for triangulation, not a time to cut off our own slice of rotten beef and serve it up as chateaubriand.  The next four months are crucial because it's the only chance the D's have to keep the ducks from being put in a row.  You may recall Contingency Plan A, briefly summarized as:

No.

Here's what I'd like to see.  The entire Democratic caucus of the House of Representatives simply refuses to go to work as long a Tom DeLay is Majority Leader.  Deny a quorum.  Get your best parliamentarian and tie the place in knots.  Sell the hell out of the fact that the House Republicans just used the rules of the institution as a getaway car.  Go to Texas and pose with Ronnie Earle.  But, under no circumstance, do anything of substance until the Tiny Little Hammer is deposed.  And, above all, do not listen to Bill Clinton who, I swear to God, still believes there are reasonable men among the Republicans."

Couldn't agree more.....

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