If you ever doubted it…
…this should resolve the question once and for all: We are on our own.
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Asked about her “greatest mistake,” Pelosi said Why don’t you tell me? ‘Cause I think we’re doing just great.” Remember when Georgie stumbled over a similar question and couldn’t recall any mistakes? It seems Our Only President is not the only one so afflicted.
The hand-off…
It has been pointed out to me many times that the Iraq Occupation and the FISA amendment are only two issues of many, on most of which the Democrats are incrementally better than Republicans, and this has been used as an argument against the conclusion that there is no difference between them.
They are incrementally better. Is that a reason to give them a pass for being complicit in the mass death caused by the Iraq Occupation and in the bankrupting of America? Or a reason to give them a pass for hacking away at freedom and privacy?
Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Leadership are confidant that they will win the presidency and the Congress next year simply on the strength of peoples fear of Republicans.
Sadly, if that happens “rethugs” will be back in power for another four or eight years, dressed up as and self-labelled as “democrats”. And the shell games will continue.
And it all can be turned around – if enough people quit whining about how powerless they feel, and remember that they have the power.
If every time a Democratic candidate met with constituents or knocked on peoples doors or phoned them looking for money or votes they heard…
“If you Democrats defund and end the occupation of Iraq before November 7, 2008 I’ll contribute to you and vote for you.
Don’t waste my time with excuses. Come back or call back when you’re done and you’ll get my money and my vote. Have a nice day.”
… the Democratic Leadership would quickly sit up and listen.
And the Iraq occupation would be history. Along with the FISA amendment. And along with all the bullsh*t of the past seven years.
If enough people quit whining about how powerless they feel, and remember that they have the power…
and use it.
If they believe they will have the votes without doing what they were elected to do, and instead keep enabling Bush, then they have no reason to change and there is no effective difference between them and the rethugs.
I will not, two years down the road, be defending myself for supporting people who enabled Bush when they had the power to stop him.
I also will not wait for millions or tens of millions of other people to use the threat of support withdrawal to pressure them before I will do so.
Waiting for that to happen would mean someone else would have to go first, and would mean that I do not have the courage of my own convictions but would stand with my finger in the wind…
Someone has to go first. If it’s me then so be it. I’ve stood alone most of my life.
There are two taglines on my blog. One from Hunter Thompson: “The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
And one from me: “The opposite of conventional wisdom is the likely truth of most things.”
“If you Democrats defund and end the occupation of Iraq before November 7, 2008 I’ll contribute to you and vote for you.
Don’t waste my time with excuses. Come back or call back when you’re done and you’ll get my money and my vote. Have a nice day.”
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And I know that this world will never be perfect. Bad things will always come to pass. Tough decisions will have to be made that can affect people. People will always eventually die somehow……knowing all of these things I still know which team I play on and the current Democrats aren’t on that team. I have no inch to give because you start cutting into my soul.
is the SCOTUS.
…could have told the fate of my family, in a different reality.
My grandfather was a logger and my father was born in Gaylord, OR, on the Coquille River. The Stampers lived in a fictional town of Wakonda and the movie used the Siletz and Yaquina Rivers, but that’s just stage dressing.
People in the US are easily the most economically illiterate electorate of any ‘developed’ country.
They do not question the the insane economic orthodoxy of “no such thing as too much debt” which has fueled the war – hence “reinvestment” of all those debt instruments – which also puts food on US tables.
Of course that scheme by which the US dollar reigns as queen of all the world’s currencies (preferred international reserve currency) is now coming apart like a cheap suit.
The national debt, which “finances” the war, is not idle paper in a drawer. It is recycled back into the debt market so that more invisible hands can get a share of the interest payments on all that debt.
The primary export of the US is now junk debt. This is what’s putting food on the table in the US. A huge driver in that junk debt market is the Iraq occupation. Therefore the US public are literally living a well-protected, well-fed lifestyle through the profits of this war.
I know, to those unfamiliar with the idea of debt literally functioning as currency (search article for phrase “checks and balances”), it doesn’t make sense.
Here is how it works: the poor owe debt, while the rich own debt.
The Iraq genocide is literally what, in part, is keeping the US economy afloat – worldwide (frequently secret) “investment” in the great war machine. This is why Congress is not doing anything, especially admitting the truth about how fatally they have sold – enmeshed – the US debt economy with foreign “investor interest.” Congress washes hands of this huge war economy, guess what? That great bread and circus known as the US economy drops dead. This is why they are not responding to public outcry. And the last thing you will ever hear from them is the truth.
The way I see it the wound is fatal. The last thing to do, Edger, is throw good money after bad in support of those debt-mongers who people Congress.
they are are enabling the status quo, formed long ago
that’s what i’m beginning to understand from all of this… it didn’t just happen in 2001… but has been happening since Joe Kennedy fouled politics in this country
this is systemic… it’s just the plans of BushCo, their arrogance, and lack of any love of country has exposed the whole mess
so this is our chance to stand up and make it right… and it’s years worth of corruption and mismanagment and waste
that’s why the argument is so important… we can overburden ourselves with heavy untenable and unchangeable doom or we can be practical and get to work… it’s a mess. it’s not going to be easy. but it’s got to be done. and guess what? it can be DONE. it can be made right.
maybe that might appeal more than shopping. maybe it’s just what this aimless feeling needed… some real purpose.
you can still not give an inch and take a break to keep oneself healthy – in fact I recommend it lest some of us end of stilling yelling while being unaware of our own condition. Repsonsible Not Giving One Inch Is For Me
I failed you.
I’m sorry.
I’ll do what I can to make it right.
I’m sorry.
That’s all.