I will make this diary short but I couldn't keep myself from writing it.
I am so fucking disappointed in the leadership in the Democratic Congress.
I am nearly 50 years old and have been a voting Democrat since I was 18. I have agreed and disagreed with various positions taken by the leaders in Congress of our party but this bunch is the most inept, impotent, politically tone-deaf bunch of ass-wipes I have ever encountered.
I am usually a defender of the Dem Congress since I understand how difficult it is to achieve anything in politics unless you have an overwhelming majority of support.
What is their fucking problem??
How can they fail so miserably to win hearts and build support from the American people when the Republicans are soooo completely fucking inane and insane?
S-CHIP?? How can they blow this one?
The deficit is out of control from rampant GOP spending for the last 4 years, Bush is requesting 200 Billion more for an unpopular war and they can't make a case for 35 billion to save children's lives? What??
Then there's the Armenian genocide resolution in the House, one of the stupidest political moves I have ever seen. Period.
If this is Pelosi's way of causing trouble for the Iraq effort it is completely fucking moronic, if not and she really thinks this is the time to push this through the schedule she's possibly the most inept politician I've ever seen. People look at Democrats as if we've lost our fucking minds!
The War-tax proposal from David Obey(D-WI) is a great political and policy idea in my opinion that would put huge pressure on this administration and the gutless GOP to either fund the war through taxes and take it off the back of our grandkids...or stop blocking us from getting the hell out of there!
But Pelosi won't even consider it (but make room on that schedule for the Armenian Genocide?)
Reid is no better. All those Iraq resolutions that died in the Senate with dates for withdrawal should either have never been brought up or pushed every damn day until the American people understood what they were trying to accomplish.
Instead...he's spending his time bitching about Rush Limbaugh and making a fool of himself.
Democrat is a brand name, whether you like it or not.
The more impotent and ridiculous this flagellating Congress looks in the eyes of the American voter the less likely we will be able to put the final nail into the coffin of the Conservative agenda. People are pragmatic. They know the GOP is fucked up, out of touch, a corrupt money-hungry bunch of carpetbaggers but if they see no real alternative in the Democrats they will stay home in 2008 and we won't get the majorites we need to make a real difference in the country.
I have always been a Democrat, proud and blue...but these jokers are actually making me ashamed to be one. That's never happened to me before.