December 28, 2006 at 12:52:00

"Shallow Throat": Don't Let Dems Drink Bush's Iraq Kool-Aid

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"To get to impeachment or resignation, we need a united front of revulsion and commitment. I think Pelosi and Reid are smart and are determined to get the country back on course. But they will be facing extreme pressures to ease up, to back away from confrontation, to go along to get along. We have to keep their feet to the fire and constantly remind them who won the election and why."

"I admire your optimism, and I shared it right after the November election," said Shallow Throat. "But I've seen these Democrats cave so easily and so often before, I'm thinking that maybe the best we can hope for during these next two years is mild opposition, the Dems acting mainly as a brake on the most extreme policies and nominations but not helping create the conditions to remove these guys from power and thus save thousands of lives. Instead, the Democrats may more or less abandon the field as they look forward to 2008 -- in effect, with blood on their hands, enabling the worst aspects of CheneyBush policy. Then, if history is any guide, the Dems will tear each other apart, opening the door to another generation of GOP extremists in the White House."

And with that, a much more somber Shallow Throat said goodbye and turned off a path that, I couldn't help noting, diverged in a yellow wood.#

Bernard Weiner, a poet-playwright and Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor with the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly two decades, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net .

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