I think that sometimes Bill Maher can be a little strident, and I certainly do not agree with him on all issues.
But his defense of Nancy Pelosi here is spot on.
And his call for Democrats to start showing some real balls goes right along with my thinking these last several years as well.
I always thought that our first Democratic Senator in decades, Mark Begich, could actually have won a second term if he had only acted more like Congressman for life Don Young.
I do not mean ideologically of course, but when people criticize Don Young he says "fuck you!"
And I don't mean that figuratively.
Republicans in Alaska, and most other places in the country, are arrogant assholes, and yet they keep getting reelected because the voting public takes that for confident leadership.
Alaska politicians Ted Stevens, Frank Murkowski, and Don Young were, and some still are, incredibly arrogant assholes who never apologized for ANYTHING.
If Democrats want to win elections they may not have to be actual assholes, but they do have to have the confidence of their values, and an unapologetic stand on the issues they believe in.
This upcoming blue wave may get a lot of Democrats into office, but if they want to stay there they better learn to stand defiant against bullshit attacks and attempts to paint them as wishy washy.
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But his defense of Nancy Pelosi here is spot on.
And his call for Democrats to start showing some real balls goes right along with my thinking these last several years as well.
I always thought that our first Democratic Senator in decades, Mark Begich, could actually have won a second term if he had only acted more like Congressman for life Don Young.
I do not mean ideologically of course, but when people criticize Don Young he says "fuck you!"
And I don't mean that figuratively.
Republicans in Alaska, and most other places in the country, are arrogant assholes, and yet they keep getting reelected because the voting public takes that for confident leadership.
Alaska politicians Ted Stevens, Frank Murkowski, and Don Young were, and some still are, incredibly arrogant assholes who never apologized for ANYTHING.
If Democrats want to win elections they may not have to be actual assholes, but they do have to have the confidence of their values, and an unapologetic stand on the issues they believe in.
This upcoming blue wave may get a lot of Democrats into office, but if they want to stay there they better learn to stand defiant against bullshit attacks and attempts to paint them as wishy washy.
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