It's time for everyone to stop whining about what the message of the Democratic Party in the fall elections should be and step up to the plate with the only message that can win: save the country, save the Constitution, impeach George Bush.
After hearing today about the NSA's world's largest database of every telephone call made in the United States, is it not time to cut to the chase?
There is no other issue that matters this fall. Not Iraq, not Iran, not Medicare Part D, not the deficit, nothing.
Bush has drawn the line in the sand. He and his gang of criminals are far along in their plans to destroy the Constitution and the rule of law. You know what I'm talking about, the kidnappings, the wiretapping, the torture, etc.
Bush is already on record as saying that as Commander in Chief, he has the power to ignore any law the Congress passes, and by extension, to ignore the findings of any court in the land if he disagrees with it.
And the current Congress has been utterly supine, as Republican member after Republican member fail to carry out their sworn oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. They are doing nothing of the kind. In their inaction, they have sunk as low as the thugs in the White House.
So the current Congress isn't going to save us, and neither are the courts. What's left?
What's left is this fall's election. Unless we elect enough members to the House and Senate to make it possible to initiate impeachment proceedings in the House, and Senators who are not mere appendages of Bush's operation, we will lose our republic.
Getting rid of Bush should be the beginning, middle, and end of the fall campaign. You want high moral ground? Other than the messages from God that Pat Robertson claims to get occasionally, there's no higher moral ground that the guarantees embedded in the Constitution.
The Republicans would like for Democrats to stay down in the mire, where people are genuinely puzzled about the difference between the parties.
So let's show them. Party A wants to destroy the Constitution, and with it our freedom and liberty. Party B wants to defend the Constitution, and strengthen our freedom and liberty. Is that a big enough difference?
Candidates can even fire their speechwriters (sorry speechwriters). Anyone with the remotest contact with the Constitution should be able to reel off the rhetoric, backed up by example after example of Bush's criminal behavior.
And this rhetoric is good stuff: you get to talk about Washington, and Jefferson, and Tom Paine, and the more than 200 years that one generation after another has fought its fights to maintain our Constitution.
You're standing there at the proverbial town forum, and the moderator asks you for a statement. If you answer honestly and forthrightly, what else can you say but that this election has become one of the most important in our country's history, and that you're running to save the country.
And when you opponent says he/she's running to save the country too, then set off the fireworks. Does my esteemed opponent think that the President should be able to authorize torture, contradicting the treaties that previous presidents have signed? Does my esteemed opponent think that the President has the power to listen to every telephone call in the country? Let me read the 4th amendment to you. Is there something I'm missing here? And so on.
So after all the blogging, and all the articles, and all the conferences, I believe this campaign boils down to a very simple message: vote for me, and I will do everything I can to throw these evildoers out of office and repair the damage they have done to the foundations of our country. All day. Every day. Every Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives or the Senate. Is it hard to stay on this message?
How many more horrors have to be revealed? We cannot fight these thugs on a case-by-case basis. We are losing these battles, and we're in the gravest of dangers of losing the war.
If the Democrats cannot call these thugs out soon, this version of the Democratic Party will be remembered with scorn and shame wherever people who cherish freedom gather on our planet. Call your representatives, call your senators, call your challengers, tell them to cut the crap, pick up the flag, join together, and save the country.