What we mainly voted for was a Democratic majority. Well, we got it but the problem was there were not enough grass root people to put into office to make THEM the controlling part of that majority. Which leaves us still stuck with the bought and paid for gutless wonders within that majority. Some really talked the talk before the election but that went down the drain in a hurry..Back to ignoring who they are supposed to be representing as usual. Blathering and posing for the cameras while our country goes to hell in a hand basket, our children die in foreign lands to facilitate corporate stealing assets and the puppets continuing to puppet. Do they care? Obviously not. Greed should be made a crime which of course would leave our government with few left standing.

by Rae (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 230 comments [2 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Feb 5, 2007 at 3:54:34 PM

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Yes, the American people voted for the Democrats hoping they would impeach Bush and get out of Iraq. Now, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, tells us that "impeachment is off the table." And despite the power to approve or disapprove any war expenditures, which has been in the Constitution since it came into effect in 1787 and the first federal government was set up, Congress, which is now under Democratic control, is agonizing over a sense of Congress resolution which will not have any effect. Despite all the sound and fury, with Republicans and conservative Democrats predicting that any ineffectual and non binding resolution will endanger the troops, and all the political manevering around amendments and authors of different resolutions combining their resolutions, the result when all the tumult and turmoil has passed will be the Iraq War continuing unimpeded. If Antiwar and Impeachment activists cannot achieve their goals through the Democrats, its time you considered voting for a third party. And stop being brought up short by the argument that voting for a third party will lead to even more evil since it will cause the lesser evil Democrats to lose and put the Greater evil Republicans back in power. The Democrats know that as long as both liberals and radicals have announced publicly that they are supporting the Democrats as the lesser evil, the Democrats can safely afford to become even more evil because liberals and radicals have announced that they don't have any place else to go. Then the Republicans can safely afford to move even further to the right and even more evil. And the Democrats know that they can safely follow the Republicans even further to the right BECAUSE YOU HAVE ADMITTED THAT YOU DON'T HAVE ANY PLACE ELSE TO GO. If you are on a run-a-way train speeding towards the edge of a cliff, leaving the Republican front car and crowding into the Democratic rear car is not an effective strategy for survival. And don't say a third party will not be supported by a majority of the voters because, if the majority of the voters decide to support a third party, the third party will have majority support. And that is your job; you need to be agitating to persuade people concerning the bankruptcy of the Democratic Party instead of the equivalent of urging the majority of voters to take refuge in the rear car of a run-a-way train. Remember that a third party can prevail even in our winner take all electoral system. The Republicans were once an upstart third party before they replaced the Whig Party. At present, the Green Party represent the best chance of a break with the two party duopoly, sdspite its disastrous refusal to endors Ralph Nader in 2004 and its equally disastrous retreat to endorsing safe states David Cobb and his covert lesser evil support of the Democrats by only making a serious attempt to campaign in states where there was no chance he would throw the election to the Republicans. His running mate, Pat LeMarch came out for a REALLY safe states policy when she said that she would not even vote for herself unless the polls predicted that Kerry would win 70% of the vote in her state. You must be ready for increasingly strident predictions of doom as you move towards breaking with the Democrats. Already, OpEd has published another attack on Ralph Nader as the Democrat's disappointment with respect to impeachment and ending the Iraq war has led to increased fears that the voters may break with the Democrats. You can expect more of the same in the same way an overprotective parent retchets up the stidency and hysteria of his or her warnings of doom whenever their offspring shows the slightest sign of self assertion and indpendence. Robert Halfhill

by rhalfhill (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 325 comments) on Monday, Feb 5, 2007 at 10:29:51 PM

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I voted for a Democrat majority as I have voted in every election for forty-five years. I got what I voted for and I love it. Impeaching Bush is just one issue. With one vote more than the Republicans in the Senate and just a very few more in the House, it is doubtful if things will be changed over night. After all, the other sided are still representative of half the country. For the first time in twelve years, I hear debate and see hearings which are bringing everything into light. The last thing we need is a rush to penalty with out the methodical steps of judgment leading to justice. If we Democrats did that, we would be just like the Republicans only from the left side of the isle.

by pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 972 comments) on Thursday, Feb 8, 2007 at 12:26:20 AM

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