Comments on: Democrats

By: zak822

zak822 — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:49:15 +0000

It’s time we face an unpleasant fact.

By and large, our national Democrats have not taken on President Bush and his minions because they agree with them. In their fuzzy little hearts, they really are GOP Lite.

The number of national Democrats that took to the tall grass trying to hide from Sen. Feingold’s censure resolution tells the story. They cannot even make themselves say “President Bush broke the law”, even after the example the GOP gave us with President Clinton. Even with all polling showing that traditional Democratic issues win with the voters, these people cannot bring themselves to support those issues.

Because they don’t believe in them.

By: uncledad

uncledad — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:47:37 +0000

I quess the billions of dollars explains it all. I quess I’m no better at pointing out simple ironies than the press. I had better keep my day job!

By: uncledad

uncledad — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:43:25 +0000

3/15/05-Weenie Update

Wow two senators have thus far signed on to Feingolds measure, Harkin, and Boxer. Now that’s progress. When this story broke (the president’s violation of our 4th amendment rights) a couple months ago all the democrats were tripping over themselves to call for an investigation? Also did you all notice Dead eye Dick’s statement that “the American people are with the president on this one”? I wonder where he got this idea. Maybe from a Poll? Perhaps the same poll that says he and his subordinate Bush are deep down in the shitter. Brilliant. All the billions of dollars that our media has at its disposal and none of them seem to point out the simplest of ironies.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:19:52 +0000

I have said it before, and will probably say it again :

We have to assume that “Vichy Democrats” include people being paid off by Karl Rove (but, probably quite indirectly). In other words, they are what in the Cold War days would have been called agents of influence. Most are probably being blackmailed at this point (that is the typical AOI life cycle – start out getting paid “in appreciation for your help” or for some other bullshit reason, then morph to being totally ruled by your paymaster, who after all has the goods on your treason).

Who might these people be ? I don’t know, but you can bet that they are against the Censure resolution.

A reasonable response would therefore be to refuse to give money or support to anyone who votes against Censure.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:55:43 +0000

This morning’s NYT editorial, “A Stumble a Day”……about incompentency in the Bush administration…..has a great point to make about Bush team illegal behavior and a Congress that [except for Feingold] aids and abets that illegality:
“If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.”

By: maha

maha — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:21:30 +0000

Cohen is brilliant at almost writing a good column but blowing it, and he did it again. He doesn’t bash the Dems for not standing up to the Republicans; he bashes them for “an innocuous port deal that lent itself to demagogic mischief. This reprehensible exercise in Arab-bashing was led by New York’s two senators, Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton …” Huh? Like Republican Senators weren’t on the front lines of shutting the port deal down, too?

By: John Palcewski

John Palcewski — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:49:25 +0000

Richard Cohen in WaPo has a good column (link below) about how little the Republicans are “distressed” by the endless string of administration blunders. Then, just to prove he’s not a liberal partisan hack, he jumps all over the Democrats. I winced, but he spoke the truth. If people like Hillary and Obama can’t capitalize on the tanked Republican poll numbers, who in hell can? Look at the Democrats ducking questions and running around like chickens with their heads cut off after Finegold called for censure. What a joke.

Things don’t look good. But there’s an old witch here on the island of Ischia who says she’s seeing clear signs that after the upcoming full moon and spring equinox, some really good things will be happening in the world. Just watch, she says. Gawd, I hope she’s right.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031301484.html

By: Britwit

Britwit — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:34:39 +0000

Breaking News — Have you heard already?

In an attempt to thwart the spread of Bird Flu,

George W. Bush has bombed the Canary Islands.

By: Steve from Canuckistan

Steve from Canuckistan — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:01:26 +0000

The democrats are afraid they’ll be perceived as been on the wrong side of public opinion. They’re picturing the Republican mid term campaign commercials accusing them of supporting the terrorists. It will probably take an economic calamity, a Kratina 2 or another terrorist attack in which it is clear once again that Republican policies have worsened the outcome before people finally wake up. The Democrats are cowards and deserve a long sojourn in the wilderness. Maha, I’d like to write to them and tell them to get off their duffs and do something but I’m afraid they might start a whispering campaign encouraging Cheney to invade Canada next for sticking our nose in their business. If Bush gets away with his warrantless wiretapping as it now appears he likely will, it makes you wonder which law boy wonder will feel empowered to break next? William Arkin had a commentary in WAPO on March 7 in which he made the following bold statement: “, I for one don’t believe that the NSA program …..hides some Nixonian-like abuse targeted on Americans. I particularly reject the 1960’s paradigm that the administration is using NSA to collect a new “enemies list.” The link is below (scroll down to his March 7 entry). Arkin did not say how he knew this, or on what basis he makes that claim. As someone on the outside of your country looking in my response to that is BULLSHIT! How can he be so sure that this administration isn’t abusing these powers especially given the fact that the White House is been run by one of the more malevolent characters (Rove) on the American political scene in either this or the last century.

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/

By: spiiderweb

spiiderweb — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:53:52 +0000

I’ve maintained for some time now that bloggers do represent Americans. I further suggest blog commentors do too. Our “radical” ideas such as health care for all, jobs, pensions, equality, freedom are things the people want.

That said, look around at the blogs today. EVERYONE is screaming for the Dems to get some balls and back Feingold. And to start acting like an opposition party.

I would hate to face re-election at home with a track record like most Dems have. They’re afraid of losing support at home? Wise up. Americans don’t appreciate spineless cowards.