Political Ruminations

What Democrats Believe

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on what Democrats believe, what they want for the people of this country:

“The question is: What do we believe?

We believe in an economy that grows opportunity out to the middle class and the marginalized, not just up to the well connected.

We believe that freedom means keeping government out of our most private affairs, including out of a woman's decision whether to keep an unwanted pregnancy and everybody's decision about whom to marry.

We believe that we owe the next generation a better country than we found and that every American has a stake in that.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other.

We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream.

That's what Democrats believe.”

VIDEOS: The Best Speeches From the DNC Convention - Tuesday Night, September 4

First Lady Michelle Obama brought down the house with her magnificent tribute to America and her husband:

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, “This is the election of a lifetime”:

San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro:

 

Former governor of Ohio Ted Strickland:

Morning Quote: Grover Norquist

From the article by Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA) “How Grover Norquist hypnotized the GOP”, emphasis mine:

“At our 25th college reunion in 2003, Grover Norquist — the brain and able spokesman for the radical right — and I, along with other classmates who had been in public or political life, participated in a lively panel discussion about politics. During his presentation, Norquist explained why he believed that there would be a permanent Republican majority in America. One person interrupted, as I recall, and said, “C’mon, Grover, surely one day a Democrat will win the White House.””

Grover Norquist’s response:

“We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.”

And isn’t that exactly what they’re working so hard to accomplish now? To the point where they are willing to cause an economic collapse.