(Update One/5-12: See links at the end of this post)
"
The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday night to pay for military operations in Iraq on an installment plan, defying President Bush's threat of a second straight veto in a fierce test of wills over the unpopular war, " the AP reports.
The bill passed along party lines and is expected to get a cool reception in the Senate, "where Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is seeking a compromise with the White House and Republicans."
I for one am sick and tired of the political maneuvering, the games, and the lack of leadership coming from Democrats like Reid and Pelosi. Whether it's ending the war or impeaching Bush & Company, they haven't a clue how to get it done -- or worse, they don't want to get it done.
Given the failure of the Democrats to deliver on their election promises, a huge opportunity presents itself to Republicans seeking reelection or the Presidency in 2008. if they were smart, they'd be mouthing off to the press at every opportunity that the Bush administration has and is failing the American people -- and the Republican party. They'd be putting a 2000-mile divide between themselves and everything the Bushies represent. They'd tell the American people that they will personally do everything in their power to restore our civil liberties and the rule of law, to end the military war in Iraq and solve the problem the only way it can be solved -- diplomatically. They would tell the American people that they have been bamboozled by a President who has lied, cheated, broken the law, and failed to uphold his oath to the Constitution of the United States. They would tell the American people that Bush and his administration must be removed before they do more damage to our country and to our position in the international community. And then, they would lead the way -- beating the Democrats at their own game -- to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rove, et al.
I ask you, how does any Republican in his right mind think that they can be elected by supporting the policies of BushCo? They are either all popping the same idiot pills or they have all collectively lost their minds in the Alternate Universe of BushWorld -- or they support the Bush neo-con fascist agenda.
So where are the Democrats' heads, besides up their collective arses? Why are they not trying to make the point to their Republican cohorts that, by sticking with the War and the President, they are digging their own graves? And that be cooperating with the Democratic leadership to get our troops out of Iraq and hold the administration accountable for their abuses of power, they will earn the respect of the majority of disillusioned Americans whose views are so obviously reflected in poll after poll. Obviously, if they did convince the Republicans to cooperate, their own Democratic Party majority would be in jeopardy. So they keep playing their games and posturing and pontificating in front of cameras and dead-head, White-House-talking-point pundits about how their failure to accomplish just about anything meaningful is everyone's fault but their own. Not.
It's games as usual. Politics as usual. My job before my duty. My livelihood before your life.
Our government leaders -- with few, few, exceptions -- have become shams and shills, criminal in their abandonment of our Consititution and the principles upon which this country was founded. They don't deserve to serve another minute, much less another term.
I suggest we all let them know how we feel, folks. If you are as fed up and angry as I am, let your representatives know -- loud and clear -- that until they begin impeachment proceedings and get our troops safely out of Iraq -- their days are numbered.
Also See:
