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I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

However, I am so sick and tired of my party letting them do it. Roger, you are absolutely right – the Dems did campaign on ending the war. They did promise to stop the administration. I know some of them are really committed to those goals (darling Waxman), but most of them are doing the usual Dem thing – cowering. I’m SICK OF THE COWERING! I am PISSED OFF. I want to see some action – NOW. I have written so many stupid letters to so many of our elected politicians and only a few of them are actually standing up and screaming and demanding to turn things around. Most others are trying to quiet those few to maintain a working relationship with this administration. SCREW THAT. Did the GOP do that when they had all the cards? I’m not saying that I want my party to act in kind, but I would certainly like to see them use their power to do what they said they were going to do.

All I see is the same old crap. I’m tired of it. YES, Lieberman is the weenie king, the wormiest of the wormy, but I have yet to see my party unite and scream out against this sleazy administration, like I wanted to see. Roger, when you talked about how the Dem leaders didn’t stand up for LaMont, I felt that same way during his run for office. He was a warrior and the weenies just stood back, afraid to cross the worm king. We are still a crippled party who is afraid to be bullied, afraid to make waves. Man, I miss Clinton. At least he knew how to play. I want a warrior, a hero. Waxman, Reid, Conyers? Is it you? Somebody, please step up. We need a REAL leader this time.

When Pelosi said, “Impeachment is off the table,” I wanted to fly to Washington and knock her head clean off. What the hell?! If there was EVER reason to impeach in all of American history, it is now. It is astonishing – so many impeachable offenses committed. So many laws broken. Blatant disregard for the Constitution, completely overstepping it. Unbelievably shocking disrespect for the balance of power on which our system of government is supposed to be based. Shady deals, money changing hands, dirty war contracts, TORTURE, basic rights we claim to uphold in this country cast aside, outing an undercover operative for political revenge????!!! This is, by far, the worst, most dispicable, most corrupt, secretive, sleaziest administration in all of American history. These people make Nixon look like Santa Clause. Why on earth is impeachment “off the table?” Can someone please tell me that?

I want the war to end. I want our soldiers home. I believe and always have believed that this was an illegal war, even prior to learning (but not at all surprised) that the case for it was based on lies. What a horrible precedent to set in the world – a preemptive strike. What a dangerous and irresponsible and ignorant thing to do in an already unstable region of the world. How completely idiotic was it to leave Afganistan to fight it when we had the bad guys cornered? We could have made an example out of them, but Wubbya wanted to be a “war president,” so he and his people used the fear and pain of the American people to push an illegal war, instead of gutting Al Quaida when they had a fleeting opportunity to do so. Yeah, I’m one of those “angry liberals.” However, I think that no matter what side of the political fence you are on, as an American you should be angry and downright insulted.

Again, as much as I loathe the GOP of late, I am becoming more and more disgusted with my own party every day. Are there any ideals worth fighting for? Why are they towing the line with the war? Can someone please tell me what our platform is?

Roger may make you mad (he got on my nerves a couple of times, too), but the truth hurts sometimes. Write your congressmen. Write everyone else’s congressmen, too. Maybe if enough of us tell them to do what they said they would, they actually will do that – firmly, with resolve, and with the American people behind them. Most of us are this time. What are they waiting for?

Okay. I’ll get off my soapbox now…

The way the so many Dems handled the IWR when so many of us were standing in the streets screaming “Bush is LYING about WMD being in Iraq” told me all I needed to know about the Democratic Party: It is a FAUX opposition party, supported by a corporate media that OWNS the two-party system, and Americans that don’t buy into the agendas of the elite classes in this country, really don’t have much, if any, real representation in D.C.

“The only question left is who the hell do we have to vote for? The repugs failed me and the country. The Dems are proving that they lied about their motives and are now just power hungery as #39 proved. 3rd party canidates are a wasted vote anyways. Maybe this country is truly screwed.”

–Yep. I’d say this country is truly screwed. When you have a country manned by a professional class of politicians, in the end, they are always looking out for their OWN asses, their own positions of power, their own cushy jobs, and maintaining these things. This is where their true allegiance lies. It’s a great game–get money from wealthy contributors, tell the people what they want to hear, get elected, do the bidding of your wealthy and influential contributors while taking care not to be too blatant about it lest you awaken and piss off the people who you purport to represent, and meaniwhile, enjoy your cushy, rarified existence of a great salary, a lifetime pension, being able to convert the money in your re-election fund to personal use when you retire from Congress, federal benefits, people sucking up to you, a large congressional staff, a nice life in a world-class city like D.C., hobnobbing with the rich and powerful, etc. It’s a great racket, and on some level, my hat’s off to these elected politicians that have what it takes to play the system so well for themselves and for their families.

–PS: Anyone that opposes federal term limits and doesn’t support public financing of political campaigns has no right to complain about the way things are. Absolutely none.

“The objectives:

1) kill every terrorist
2) Install a pro western government
3) Make country secure so the people have freedom and a democracy”

are you cutting and running?

i think you’re confusing me with #39, the source of all your knowledge.
and while pretend to get vapors about his post, it was you who said:

“I certainly hope the Dems will fix these problems ASAP if they want to have any chance at winning in 08′.”

As usual your comment is over simplified and untrue. Not all of the Dems that were elected ran on a “bring the troops home now” campaign. The BlueDogs ran mostly by saying that they would not vote for defunding the war and they would allow the administration to run the war. That’s how they ran and they were elected and they are representing their constituents as they said they would. I don’t agree with them but they are doing what they said they would do. Unlike Lieberman who said he would vote to get the troops haome and now he backs sending more there. So please get the facts straight then discuss.

Again, this stuff is very black and white to you as one side is right all the time while the other is wrong all the time. Even bad men and women can do some very good things and Very good men can do some very stupid things. It just works differently to folks like you that only care about getting the Dems more power. You certainly don’t care about the issues half as much as the political gain your party could get. This kind of thinking is scary and sad.

except that for 6 years you defended one party while giving the other party 2 months to fix everything, then starting whining ‘pelosi lied! #39 told me so!” but that’s ordinary troll protocol.

Maybe Pelosi should not have lied about having a 5 day work week. She promised that and they barely work 3 days a week. In recap, they are just as lazy as the repugs were, they are equally corrupt from the start, the lied about wanting to stop the Iraq War, and don’t have plans to fix Social Secuirty nor New Orleans.

Ok, your right they are WAY better.

I think both parties suck right now.