If Democrats do not have the moral courage to stand united against these criminals in the White House, the American people will have to. Tens of millions of them know we do not have an American president, we have a CIA network destroying, illegal wiretapping, human being torturing, American soldier killing son of a bitch fouling our White House with his treachery. They know we do not have a functioning Congress of American lawmakers, we have a clusterfuck parade of craven politicians who have been kissing the ass of a psychopath for seven years.
Throughout the 2006 midterm election campaign, we fought for Democrats like never before. We fought for them in the red states, we defended them from Rovian smears, we sent them money, and then sent them more money, and then sent them even more money. We went door to door for them, we phone banked for them, we registered new voters in hundreds of Congressional districts and drove them to the polls over dangerous bridges and lived to tell the tale. We gave everything we had for month after month after month to help Democrats take Congress away from Bush’s Republican hacks.
And what have Democrats in Congress given us? A knife in the back. And then another knife in the back. And then another one. For seven years now, we’ve seen Democrats cower and mumble and crawl away from showdowns with Bush time and time and time again. This FISA betrayal is one knife in the back too many for me. There is no excuse for it. It's hard to be civil when I have to pull a Democratic knife out of my back every couple weeks.
Progressives have been patient through years of Bush and Cheney abuse, but there is a limit to our patience. We have been tolerant of the refusal of Democrats to Impeach, but there is a limit to our tolerance. We have pleaded for Democrats to exhibit moral leadership, but the only moral leadership this pathetic country has is on progressive blogs.
Bush and Cheney have been on a class warfare rampage ever since the Supreme Court handed them the White House in 2001. They are a clear and present danger to every American man, woman, and child. They are destroying our democracy before our very eyes, day after day, while Democrats glance nervously at the calendar waiting for Election Day 2008 to get here so they can WIN BIG.
Kagro X is warning that There Is Something Fundamentally Wrong Here. DevilsTower is imploring Democrats to Stop Being Characters In Their Story. NightProwlKitty is eloquently expressing our grief and Pain. Meteor Blades has observed in "41 House Dems Tremble Before the Mighty Bush" that these Democrats have . . . failed us. I can think of several other less euphemistic words for what they've done, but I think everyone here is hearing loudly and clearly what Meteor Blades is telling us.
So what now, Democrats?
You might as well all go home for the August recess and just stay there. Do America and the world a favor and spare us from having to listen to any more of your posturing bullshit.
You all KNOW Bush and Cheney are directly responsible for lying us into this bloody fiasco in Iraq. You all KNOW they are directly responsible for the pervasive abuses of power and obstruction of justice being exposed on a daily basis throughout the entire executive branch of the federal government. You all KNOW they are directly responsible for massive and blatantly illegal NSA spying on Americans. You all KNOW they are directly responsible for institutionalizing the torture of human beings in violation of the Geneva Conventions. You all KNOW they are directly responsible for crimes ranging from the exposure of a covert CIA operative to the subversion of elections and the relentless perpetration of fraud throughout the entire defense and intelligence establishments.
And what have you done about it?
You haven't done shit about it.
You inherited a proud and noble party that governed America through forty years of peace and prosperity, but for seven years a smirking imbecile from Texas has shit on you and everyone who supports you and you keep rewarding him for it. Over and over and over again.
Are we going to tolerate 534 more days of this and this and this and this and this
and this and this? Are we going to tolerate 534 more days of THIS?
I hope not.
This is about all we have left now. On September 21st we have to fill the streets of this betrayed country. We have to stand up for ourselves because Congress sure as hell isn't going to stand up for us.