Those guys whose idea of patriotism is figuring out how to get the spotlight and accountability off Rove and letting even one more day go by where a soldier dies for a mindless reason need to step down and turn the job over to someone who cares.
Meanwhile we tolerate no serious talk of a draft because some might not like it. We're watching the fire keep burning and letting a single fire truck fight the fire while we refuse to rouse the neighbors to turn on THEIR water and get more hoses involved.
We Watch the coins drop out of the hole in the bottom of the military bag while those who could plug the leak are posturing about Supreme Court nominees, and more tax advantages to the corporate parasites.
We're acting like the current commercial where two women are talking about window blinds, showing off style and appearance while the guy out side with the barbecue is fighting a disaster.
Trapped by a perceived need for anonymity - because the SecDef bulls will suppress their own - our troops have no real voice to ask the questions we must ask for them.
We're not holding up our end of the agreement in which the military is subject to the wisdom of the commander in chief while the CIC is not being forced to justify and held accountable to the citizens ... we're not watching anyone's back and we should be.
The CIC is mishandling our military and not enough of us are calling him on it ... calling senators ... representatives ... telling those must vulnerable to electoral pressure that the pressure is on now.
Even the opposing party cannot rein in the President if the electorate has no growl.
We may be slow to awaken but awaken we must. This is not the the time to tolerate politics as usual. Its past that time and now time for INTOLERANCE:
Intolerance of any politician who thinks a public statement on the Supreme Court nominee, on Karl Rove, on pseudo-religious activism or on WalMart is of greater immediate importance than stopping the blood flow in Iraq ...
Intolerance of shallow politicians who think a review of the leak problem and U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald is more important and immediate than the quagmire ...
Intolerance of network news shows wasting time on disingenuous and shallow party chairmen parsing out the latest revelations about the king of the rats when they should be broadcasting the reality of the war ...
Intolerance of meaningless reports on how much more money Halliburton has wasted when more truth about the war and the dying is something we pretend doesn't exist ...
Intolerance of looking the other way and pretending that Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autrey and their white hats are in charge of detention and interrogation of other human beings.
Intolerance of the repudiation of the real American Dream and Core Values in the name of narrow politics, corporatism and a pseudo-logical foreign policy plan based on a power bluff that has been called.
Intolerance of the foolish greed that ignores tragedy and promotes silliness through survivors, fear factors, CEO wannabe's, and one-step-beyond portrayals of psychics, profilers and teenagers who talk to a God who is so focussed on teen rights of passage that he has no time for war and dying.
One week of total focus on the most serious issues in the country might generate whining from the consumers ...
at first ...
but a steady diet of the reality around us might very well generate an awakened and aroused public growling loud enough to get someone's attention.
Someone who'll tell the preeners, prancers, liars, and disemblers to fix the real problem ... or else.