Democratic Split on Iraq
Although this Reuters piece is little more then a snide and sneering smear of liberal and left-wing Democrats, the writer, David Alexander, gets one thing correct: all the bullshit games on Iraq have left the party split, which is EXACTLY what people like me have been predicting since 2006.
For the most part it’s lies about how liberal Democrats refuse to see any progress at all (that’s because there’s been no progress). In fact, the writer has it backwards:
“A nightmare scenario for any party is when the pressure, the sum total of the pressures from their constituency groups, are out of step with mainstream America. That’s a prescription for electoral disaster,” he added.
But the consituency groups are IN STEP with mainstream America. Take 5 seconds and google the approval rating of George Bush and the War in Iraq, and you’ll see that, according to Alexander, mainstream America is out of step with mainstream America.
The people who are out of step are the members of the Democratic Leadership who refuse to challenge Bush and the Republicans (who are also out of step). That is why all three groups have such a low approval rating.
This split is really between the Party Leadership, which is spineless, fickle, feckless, and cowardly, and the Party rank-and-file, who are getting angrier and angrier with the leadership every single day for persistently and shamelessly breaking the promises they made to us in 2006.
The result of this may well be that Democrats stay home in droves as well as Republicans and Independents. By pretending they can’t do anything without a super-majority, the Democrats in Congress and the Senate are refusing to do their job, which is to act as a check on the Executive Branch. I don’t know if this will cost them the election, but it will certainly make it that much harder to keep control of one or both houses of Congress, especially if the Independents who helped throw out the Republicans decide they’ve been had. Those are the folks who’ll vote for a Ralph Nader or a Ron Paul at the drop of a hat, and Democrats will need them in 2008.
The ONLY way to rein in this Administration and restore our national honor and reputation is to impeach them and try them, beginning with Alberto Gonzalez, moving on to Dick Cheney, and then the top of the shit pile itself, George W. Bush.
If this does not happen, the next president, D or R, will exercise the exact same illegal, unconstitutional power that Bush has arrogated for himself, and the country will neither be the better for it, nor the same: we will cease to become America, and we will be more like the East German surveillance state, but without the health care.
That’s not what I voted for. That’s not the reason my great-grandparents emigrated here from Russia and Germany.
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