The Democrats get played on two fronts.
The House, including all the Democrats from Connecticut, voted today to condemn Moveon. This is the first boneheaded inside the Beltway vote cast by Joe Courtney and as such is hugely disappointing. He’s been in office for about 8 months and he already shows signs of losing touch. What is wrong with these people? The Republicans make a religion out of playing to their base and make a hobby out of getting Democrats to shit on theirs. Has there been more manufactured outrage in the entire history of the Republic? In 2005 and 2006 my wife and I dug deep to give as much as we could to Courtney. I must say as I’m sitting here today, I’m tempted to tell him that I’m sending my money to Moveon and that he should ask them for it. Where were the Congressional resolutions condemning the Swift boaters, or the people who trashed Max Cleland? Are we to believe that our top military man in Iraq is so fragile that his right to be a dishonest front man for George Bush must be protected at all costs? We were once a country with an almost unhealty aversion to standing armies. We now are a country that confers sacred status on the military. Yet another sign of decline toward tyranny.
But the vote in the House, as contemptible as it was, was nothing compared to the vote in the Senate, in which with little or no debate, and without even bothering to take the public pulse, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to give Bush a pretext for attacking Iran. Make no mistake about it, it was intended to be, and will quite likely be used, as an authorization for war. It’s been 5 years since these same people tucked their tails between their legs and voted for war in Iraq. At least then there was some debate about it. This time it was over in a flash, and no amount of special pleading that the original resolution was watered down can excuse it. Every Democrat should be aware by now that we have a bunch of psychopaths and sociopaths running this country. There is no excuse for encouraging them. At least Chris Dodd voted against it, as, to give him credit, did Biden. Clinton voted for it, having obviously learned nothing in the past five years except how better to triangulate. The hope of the new generation, the bold thinker, the profile in courage, Barack Obama, did not vote. (There’s a pattern there by the way).
Dodd for President.
UPDATE: Mary was trying to post comments with a link to this Kos Article. For reasons that mystify us both, clicking on the link brings you to a Wikipedia article on HTML. The link above should work.
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