As usual you can tell the talking points by watching the Sunday pundit shows.
First, and as I've said before, using talking points just pisses me off. They take important subjects and dumb them down into slogans that FOX News and others of the ilk can pound into the American people and hope they absorb.
Second, I am amazed at some of them. "Surrender Date" is the one flying across the screens right now. Senator Mitch McConnell is on This Week and is saying that the White House doesn't want a "surrender date" in any bills and they have the votes in the Senate to stop any bills with deadlines. The reason that infuriates me so much is that the Senate SHOULD NOT be looking to the White House for guidance on their votes. They should be looking to the American public.
It seems as though our "leaders" have forgotten the concept of separation of powers. No, not it seems like, they have forgotten.
Maybe you agree with a withdrawal of the troops. Maybe you don't. But our elected representatives should be voting as we want, not as Bush wants.
Most people don't realize America is not a true Democracy. We are a Republic. We vote for people who will then vote as we see fit.
Theoretically.
The problem is that isn't how it is working. The two party system has clear lines drawn, and then add the pandering to interest groups and corporate funding and lines are drawn further. The result is that we enter quagmires and can't get out. Iraq, the tax system, the energy, system, etc.
But I am really writing about this because of the arrogance of McConnell. Pelosi was on before him and stated that the Warner bill funding the war was "too little too late". McConnell's response?
Not it's a good bill.
Not it's what we need.
His response was "It's what can pass the Senate.' What kind of a bullshit response is that?
I hope the American people will remember the continued arrogance at the next election.
Posted by the Lemming Herder from Don’t Be A Lemming!
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