Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

How dare you, sir? You have done an excellent job representing me these past four months, and I have highly approved of the job you’ve done. And when it came to Iraq, you had vocally called for the withdraw of American forces from that unwinnable war. You joined 168 of your colleagues and voted for the McGovern bill. Why, then, did you cave and vote for the war funding that does not have any timelines? As someone who actively supported you, went to a rally, and even had the opportunity to meet with you personally, I feel confused, disappointed, and betrayed.

Since last summer the op-ed you wrote for the Daily Times has hung on my door as a constant reminder of how true those words were and are. “I firmly believe in a planned end to our military engagement in Iraq within the next year.” You then went on to explain that the ONLY extensions should be those granted to give the military brass more time to remove troops; not to extend the mission in pursuit of “ever changing goals” that will always remain “elusive”; and CERTAINLY not as one of the worst and least-liked presidents in history sends more of our young men and women to die for his pride and vanity. All this bill does is allow George Bush to continue to let more Americans and Iraqis die for another 19 months until he is replaced. That is more than unacceptable. It is immoral. It is evil.

What puzzles me most is that, until now, you had been flawless in understanding and taking on the lies this Administration and its surrogates have used to smear opponents of this occupation. Why now have you fallen for their smear that failing to give Mr. Bush what he wants is tantamount to endangering our troops? As your constituent, I demand answers, and I demand accountability.

Sincerely,

Stephen Mann

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Those fucking, spineless Democrats. They’re caving to the President and the GOP and more war by giving him a funding bill without timetables. You can read about the damage here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

I’m furious, assuming this bill comes to pass. This is a complete capitulation by the Democratic leadership, a complete abandonment of what was promised in 06 and what has been promised over the past several months. Of course, this isn’t the only issue where the party has either backed down completely or thrown the American people and party activists under the bus with watered down shit (as Atrios sez, “don’t piss on me and tell me it’s raining”). Corporate coddling and weaker ethics reform, playing footsie with FoxNews while attacking ‘liberal activists’ [well wtf, aren’t Democrats SUPPOSE to be liberal?!], and plenty of other weak shit. Besides being a total sellout of what us activists have been striving for, especially on ethics and Iraq, there’s another thing that grinds my gears.

IT MAKES NO GOD-DAMN POLITICAL SENSE! Wake up, Democratic consultants and insiders: the public trusts you on every fucking issue; or it did, anyway. You probably just pissed away all the trust you’d made with BOTH the left and the “middle”. Good job.

Raise hell about this, regardless of your party affiliation. Let them know your party affiliation though: if they get complaints from “real Americans” [which is code for conservatives or right-leaning ‘independents’] as well as from us damn dirty hippies, maybe they’ll actually fucking listen.

EDIT: I don’t like Kos in terms of ideology, but I love his organizational skills and his dedication to cleaning up the party. So what he said:

Unless you care more about George W.’s ego than the safety and welfare of our troops, you are pissed right now. But there is productive pissed, and destructive pissed. The productive stuff has us redoubling our efforts to clean house in Congress, clearing out the dead weight, the corporatists, and the Republicans. There’s the taking over our local parties, bringing new blood and a cohesive sense of purpose to often moribund organizations.

That doesn’t mean ’stop being angry’. It means, ’stand tough and fight back’.

Fuck Yeah!

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