Say, Kos: "What is the Democrats' plan to restore Constitutional Government?" So asks one nervous Democrat. I'm not sure if the doyen of internet Donkledom has quite formulated a response, but Harry Reid, capo of the made men of the Fighting 110th has a reply:
"I am committed to giving our intelligence community the tools they need to fight terrorism and am working very hard with the most senior members of the administration to do that as soon as possible," Reid said.It's not even fun to mock these people anymore.
You gotta leave him Luanne. You pack up your shit and get the kids and get outa that trailer 'fore he kills you. You keep goin' back there, sweetie, and he keeps tellin' you he's sorry an' he loves you an' why do you make him do it. Well it ain't yer fault, honey. But it is gonna be yer fault if you stay.
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Thanks for the link, and I love the "gotta leave him" riff.
But a "nervous Democrat" I am not.
Scared shitless at the approach of tyranny, yes. And a Democrat? Well, more a dirty fucking hippie, really.
NOTE For "tyranny" read James Madison in Federalist 47.
NOTE For "tyranny" read James Madison in Federalist 47.
Maybe Harry Reid should read it before handing over more power to the executive, again and again and again. Maybe he should read it out loud for the benefit of his colleagues and fellow Democrats, who eagerly hand over power to the executive, again ad nauseum. I have no confidence that familiarity with the work or the reasoning would do any good. It hasn't for Reid's supporters, some of whom have undoubtedly read that text and many others. And it hasn't for Democrats in general, dirty hippies or not. But it might stick in their craws just a little as they resolve, one more time, to hold someone or something accountable.
Luanne honey, you just gotta say 'Screw It', git yerself a gallon of hightest and burn that muther to the ground.
It's nice to have a little laugh as we march to the gallows.
Why am I not surprised that the leader of the "opposition party" thinks that the executive branch doesn't have enough power? It can already spy on citizens, kidnap people and torture them in gulags scattered across the planet without benefit of charge or trial, and members of the executive branch have exempted themselves from laws which Congress pass...so clearly, whatever shreds remain of the Constitution and its enshrined liberties are an obstacle to winning the War Of Terror by the targeted year of 2140.
Yeah, yeah, I know...that was a right purty speech...and my choices at the ballot box in 2008 are: bullet through the left temple or through the right temple? Hm, can't we split the difference?
It seems to me that with the near-total capitulation of the Democratic "leadership" to Executive Privilege after the 2006 elections, we are facing a situation in which neither political party even pretends to answer to the will of the people. Just ask Nancy "impeachment is off the table" Pelosi, who imperiously announced this, despite the polls that show 54% of the nation's citizens are perfectly willing to see at least Vice-President Cheney impeached. Well, if you want Cheney impeached, you can vote for the...erm, you can't vote for anybody, because the parties are virtually identical on the vital issue of preserving Constitutional liberties: they're against it.
A lot of people are going to close their eyes, whisper a wish, and pul the "Democratic" lever in the November 2008 elections. What comes after that will be an increasingly unstable situation as the newly-empowered Democratic President and Congress act just as Bush and the Republican Congress before them. The 2010 mid-term elections will be something to behold, made especially vicious as both parties fight to distinguish themselves in the eyes of a rapidly vanishing number of people willing to cast their ballots for EITHER of these bastards.
We are, in short, fast approaching a situation in which one of the major parties either has to perform a radical change of direction or else be threatened with replacement by a third party. That rarely happens in the United States, and has in fact not happened since the mid-19th century. Another path, of course, is to abandon even the pretense of the Republic and to have the President rule as a dictator. The irony lost on all the eager DLC-style Democratic operatives-in-training gathering at YearlyKos, of course, is that this is just as likely to happen under President HR Clinton as it is under President Giuliani or President Romney.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but always it was impossible to say which was which."
"A lot of people are going to close their eyes, whisper a wish, and pull the "Democratic" lever in the November 2008 elections."
And a lot of other people are going to vote R just to amuse themselves and to spite all the "liberal" poseurs who are really beginning to needle. WTF, might as well go for the humor angle.
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