The closed Senate ordeal was, according to author of Left Out!, Joshua Frank, a "charade".. I second that. The Democrats, despite what DailyKosers may say, has a long way to go until they are actually opposing this brutal war. It's not time to pat them on the back. We need to pull them in our direction. They need to OPPOSE this war. And they aren't yet. Read this article and the author's book. It'll shed a lot of light on the Dems.
The Senate's Closed Session: Nothing But a Democratic Sham
by Joshua Frank
Oh, what a farce it was. On Tuesday November 1, the Senate Democrats pulled a rare maneuver, kicked the press and the public out of their hallowed chambers, slammed the doors, and for 3½ long hours purportedly took the Republicans to task. The Democrats demanded that the Republicans give them what was promised: an investigation into the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq.
It sounds noble enough and predictably their act, which was led by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, has been praised by a flurry of antiwar pundits and bloggers who claim the Democratic Party must finally be warming up to their side of the war question.
But just because something sounds noble, doesn't mean it is...
The grassroots of the Party - if their trendy blog DailyKos is an accurate sample - have missed the boat on this fact entirely. As a popular DK blogger by the name of Hunter, exclaimed jovially, "In a move worthy of a Wild West gunfight, Minority Leader Harry Reid changed the political landscape on a dime, and cleaved the Republican talking point brigades into shards and splinters. This move was political brilliance on more fronts than I can count."
What a crock.
Read the rest HERE!