"we have already
had a king, what we
want is a president!" [
paraphrasing here: "...and
that king george ended with a revolution!"]
these were among the powerful comments by nancy pelosi barbara boxer (sorry babs!) made after the alito cloture vote. she is blasting alito on executive signing statements, his views on abortion, on discrimination, and more.
but she doesn't stop there - she has blasted the media for NOT covering these issues during this process!
now, i wonder, WHY would she criticize the media - like cnn - which devoted serious airtime today during the confirmation cloture debate to hereditary ear wax, moist or dry!
[no, i am NOT kidding, really! seriously! absolutely real story on how asians have
dry earwax and africans have
moist earwax - thus, america was settled by beiring straits crossover by asians since native americans have
moist earwax! [uh, now that alito will be confirmed, we will be told that GOD put the people in america and that moist earwax was an inside joke to confuse darwinians...]
so, as the dems on the floor of the senate give a last death rattle over this fiasco, where DO we go from here?
many kossacks are threatening to leave the democratic party. this, i suggest, is foolhardy at this time! we NEED to be able to vote in primary elections to get rid of the likes of lieberman and landreiu. we NEED to have some power within the party, at least for the next election cycle.
i suggest we get the house or senate or BOTH back - THEN we clean our own houses! we cannot do it at the outset in many of the tight races - but we CAN take on the most egregious of the vichy dems: lieberman is no. 1. on my list.
let's look carefully and see where we can replace and STILL win the 2006 election and direct our efforts there! by taking down the worst offenders, maybe that will put the fear of "god" into the fencesitters. we will be stuck with them for near future - so maybe we can wield some power with the threat to remove in the next election cycle after 2006 if they don't grow a spine!