I think we have to start talking more about this. If the Democrats want to ever take back the Senate, let alone the White House in 2008, they better start standing for something. They better start opposing this horrible war. How are we to pull them in our direction if we support them sans specific demands?
From
Antiwar.com
Washington Democrats: No Will, No Backbone
by Joshua Frank
These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush's agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president's popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush's nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe: almost two-thirds of those polled disapproved of Bush's handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The people's voices have indeed been heard. They want light, not more tunnel and lies.
So you'd think Democrats, the alleged opposition party in Washington, would be elated over the latest findings, quickly devising a scheme to capitalize on Bush's overwhelming disapproval ratings. Well, they are devising a scheme, all right, but it's not one that will bring the troops home or provide any mortar for Bush's cracked foreign policy...
Antiwar crusader Cindy Sheehan recently told me that she thought the Democrats should be abandoned. "I will not support a pro-war Democrat [in the upcoming elections]. ... I regret supporting John Kerry in 2004," she said. "[T]he movement gained nothing from his candidacy." Later, in piece titled "War-Hawk Republicans and Antiwar Democrats: What's the Difference?," Sheehan wrote, "I think if one is not speaking out right now against the killing in Iraq, one is supporting it."
Exactly.
Virtually every leading Democrat in D.C. is silent. They have been from the get-go. One may wonder what the Democrats are waiting for, now that the popular tides are turning against Dubya. Do they think the Republicans will simply crumble on their own? Do they think that Karl Rove and Scooter Libby are going to be indicted over this whole Valerie Plame affair? While the stalwarts of the Democratic Party sit idly by waiting for a miraculous Bush collapse from within, more people are dying in Iraq every day. Billions more are spent on a war with no end in sight.
Read the rest HERE!
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