Bang!

  • Posted by smijer
  • May 25, 2007

I spent a few minutes checking through some various outlets today. I saw Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Kos, Atrios, and John Cole all slamming hard on Democrats over the war vote and on ethics.

And I was cheering them on.

If these guys don’t wake up soon, I would hate to be them on the morning after the primary election.

A solid majority of Americans want an end to the bloodshed, and they want the DC swamp drained. It looks like Democrats are no more up to it than the Republicans were. Where do we turn? Ralph Nader? Ross Perot?

Do we need fundamental changes in the system itself, to provide some accountability? Did California get it right with their never-ending ballot initiatives and their recall mechanism? What is it going to take?

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Written by:
Buck
Posted on:
May 25, 2007 at 10:50 am

Buchanan nailed in his piece today entitled “Why Congress caved to Bush”

http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=11021

And if the war is going badly in 2008, they know that the American people, in repudiating the party of Bush and Cheney, have no other choice than the party of Hillary and Pelosi and Harry Reid.

That is why congressional Democrats are surely saying privately of the angry antiwar left what has often been said by the Beltway Republican elite of the right: “Don’t worry about them. They have nowhere else to go.”

And that is why the antiwar left was thrown under the bus.

Nowhere else to go. And who wants to drain a swamp when that cesspool is the environment in which they thrive?

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Written by:
Jan
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May 25, 2007 at 8:14 pm

Another viewpoint -
Many people did not vote for democrats last election because they wanted to pull out of Iraq. They voted more against the Republicans who had failed to do what they said they would do when they were elected. Many people are not “party” anything. Some are just citizens who want candidates to do what has been promised. Republicans had not remained true to conservative values, like reducing government buracracy, cutting spending, keeping the budget balanced, etc. On top of the big spending, nothing at that point had been done to halt abortion or uphold conservative values. Perhaps the election was not so much FOR democrats as AGAINST republicans who had not fulfill expectations.

Remember that Lieberman was elected over both party candidates. He did not run as an anti-war democrat. Conservative voters were sending a message to politicians. Those of us have conservative values just hope the message was received and understood.

Every American would like to see an end of the killing in Iraq, but many also realize that is not as simple as it may seem to some. We do not have the intelligence reports or the complete truth about anything that is happening in Iraq. It is easy for those who are not in the fight to direct the military and the President. When you are not accountable, you don’t have so much to lose if you are wrong OR you don’t realize fully what could happen if you are wrong. Imagine the burden of knowing everything, not being able to share all that you know with the public, and being responsible for major decisions that will effect 250 billion people or more.