Just how daft is the Daft Dem?  Well… look at it this way… It is launching the day after election day!  A time when everybody is going through withdrawals from months of election and political news.  After all, what is going to be going on now, right?  A lame ass errr lame duck President, heading into the holiday season and awaiting the innaugauration of the first African-American President in the history of the United States.

So naturally, the question that begs to be asked is why?  Why now?

That fortunately is actually quite an easy answer, because I don’t think that this election was an end, but a beginning.  A beginning of a lot of things.  It will of course be the beginning of change, to try and undo some of the damage inflicted by President Bush, and also 12 years of a nasty evil Congress (followed by 2 ineffective years under Bush but controlled by a scaredy cat Democratic Party).  It is finally the time to take some initiatives that are not based only on how it affects some comapanies EPS.

But that is not all, not by a long shot.  While the hopes of getting 60 seats in the Senate may have been a “pie in the sky” dream, the was a reason for it.  There is a word that I suspect we will be hearing a lot of over the next 4 years… fillibuster.  It will part of the plan to fillibuster whatever they can, to “prove” how ineffective President Obama and the Democratic Congress will be.  It has already happened over the last two years, and I expect you will see it even more now.

There is so much work to be done, so many things to fix, and so many to improve.  But you can be sure, based on the blogs I have read over the past day, that the wingnut crowd.  Understand that does not apply to all GOP or all conservative folks, just as “tie-dye wearing, wheatgrass-drinking, hippie” doesn’t apply to all Democrats, but it is this wingnut group that is already starting to find things to pick on.  And if they are going to be relentless, then so am I.  I will not allow them to play their swiftboat games over the next 4 years as they prep whomever they will put forth in 2012.

I hope that what I am seeing is just a lot of sour grapes, not that this isn’t understandable.  I was measurably upset in 2004, so I can understand the bitterness.  But this goes beyond that.  Who boos the next President of the United State while their candidate is giving their concession speech?   As much as I would like to think that this will just settle down over the next week or so, I unfortunately do not believe that to be the case.  The wingnuts, like , Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, and so on, have breed this new monster creation.  The bitter, angry, racist (they didn’t create the racists, but they certainly stoke ‘em) haters are not going to let down, they are already looking for ways to tear down President-Elect Obama and the election isn’t 24 hours old yet.

So that is what The Daft Dem is about.  Supporting, thought provoking (I hope), ready to challenge the new administration and Congress, but also having their backs from the assaults that will inevitably be launched.

Open discussions will be supported here.  Discourse, and varying points of view are always welcome.  But at the same time, I do know how heated some people (myself included) can get on these subjects at times.  Threating, violent, hateful speech will NOT be tolerated.  I am final judge and juror on the matter.  You will be able to plead your case, but the final decision will rest with me.

Welcome to The Daft Dem.

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