Please sir, I want some more.
In today's Chicago Tribune, Donna Brazile contributes a wonderful tool that could be used by liberal bulimacs everwhere, with this op-ed titled I will Rebuild with you, Mr. President.
Lest you think it a mis-titled work by a lazy headline writer - paragraph three says it all:
Last Thursday night President Bush spoke to the nation from my city. I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George W. Bush--in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004. But after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.
But wait -- there's more!
While you start to question Ms. Brazile's definition of "pretty hard" in 2000 and 2004, Donna urges us to go back to our abusive spouse so he can start the cycle over again
I know, maybe better than anyone, that there are times when it seems that our nation is too divided ever to heal. There are times when we feel so different from each other that we can hardly believe that we are all part of the same family. But we are one nation. We are a family. And this is what we do. When the president asked us to pitch in Thursday night, he wasn't really asking us to do anything spectacular. He was asking us to be Americans, and to do what Americans always do.
Sure, Donna -- it's always worked before, right? No regrets from Senator Kennedy for helping get No Child Left Behind passed.
Trusting the President on Iraq - boy, that worked out well, didn't it?
Yes, absolutely, let's all fall in step behind Dear Leader
Mr. President, I am ready for duty. I am ready to stir those old pots again. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.
I've already sent my own LTE to the Trib, below -- you can send your own here.
Is Donna Brazile kidding?
The best one can say about Donna Brazile's Sept. 22 column is that, if she takes her own advice, maybe she'll be too busy to "consult" in 2006 and 2008.
I laud -- and even share -- her faith in the American people, and second the notion that we can and should look for every opportunity to help rebuild the gulf coast, but she appears to be suffering from a severe case of amnesia concerning events of the last five years.
The man that used the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" anthem in his 2000 campaign has in fact, fooled us again and again and again... I don't share her faith in the President or his administration.
After 9/11, we came together as a nation in a fashion not seen since December of 1941. We passed tax cuts so the terrorists wouldn't win. We welcomed the civil liberties crippling Patriot Act with a 99 to 1 vote in the Senate. We bought into the phony cost projections on the Medicare Big Pharma Give-a-way... errr... Prescription Drug Bill. Despite a near complete lack of evidence of Iraqi involvement in 9/11, we even went along with the invasion of Iraq. Some of the few Democrats in the House and Senate that had the temerity to question the wisdom of taking our eyes off the real terrorist threat saw themselves morphed into Osama Bin Laden in 2002 campaign commercials.
Now, as the massive rebuilding effort begins, we see the no bid contracts to the usual suspects. We see Karl Rove, a political hack - a tactically brilliant political hack, but a hack just the same - in charge of the gulf coast cleanup and rebuilding effort. While "heck of job, Brownie" was exiting the stage, perhaps we missed that the Chief Procurement Officer - the office that will play a key role in the very policies that will dictate securing of services and materials for this effort - David Safavian, was arrested on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
Ms. Brazile is welcome to be blinded by Presidential photo ops to her heart's content. The rest of us, I hope, are ready to get out of the abusive relationship the administration has built with us.
I will stand with the President when the President wishes to stand with American people -- rather than the American corporations, the American neocons, and the American opportunists.