During the 2006 Democrats running for office promised to reign in President Bush. They promised to end the war in Iraq and stop the illegal surveillance of civilians that Bush had started. What happened to those Democrats. The war in Iraq is certainly still chugging along at a few American and many Iraqi bodies every day. Now the Congress has decided to expand Bush’s ability to conduct domestic spying without the consent of the FISA court. What the hell is going on!? Democrats suddenly feel the need to play nice with Bush. Rather than hold their ground they gave in. For what? Bush hasn’t given the Democrats anything yet they cave on this bill.
It seems that what many of us feared is happening. Democrats got control of Congress and instead of doing the right things; ending the war, stopping the illegal spying, confronting the obvious violations of the Constitution, etc., they have decided to just go along so they can hold on to power. What is it going to take to wake these people up. We have the potential of a Democratic Congress and a Democrat in the White House but what difference will that make if the Democrats continue to act like Republican lite. There are enough people out there that are truly pissed off by this behavior. Start calling and emailing your congressmen and senators and let them know that if they don’t get the job we sent them there to do done then they will be looking for new jobs back home.
I’m betting this will get only passing mention on the standard news sources. And there will be little outrage from people. Many won’t know, understand or care. This is how democracy ends.
Regarding the Dems lack of resolve, I don’t know exactly what short hairs the administration is pulling, but Hillary’s comment about lobbyists is telling. When debate is muted representative government, the republic dies.
Gotta go. I’m either going to bone up on Roman history or look at what YouTube has going on.
Comment by wryly — August 6, 2007 @ 5:35 pm