Reply #8: It's necessary but not close to sufficient. So Yes, it is. [View All]

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I'm not messing with you Sprakly;)

You're to young to remember the group "The Fugs," way way back, the had a song called "Nothing" -
that was the main lyric for five minutes.

That's what the primary season reminds me of. The things that happened in Iraq are too much to imagine.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0801/S00011.htm

The two years spent not pushing like crazy to stop the carnage and destruction incurs a measure of
responsibility for what's happened. Why?

It's not "us," (the American people), it's "them", the Republicans and those who enabled them.
Our team is playing "four corners."

Aside from the morality of allowing this craziness to go forward, it's ultra bad politics. Approval
ratings for Congress went from the high 60's to below those of Bush when John Q and the rest of us
figured it out.

All the chummy back slapping, Senatorial courtesies, plannedworld tours by the previous two presidents,
obscene national press dinners, prayer breakfasts go on while people are getting slaughtered over
there and we're unable to get health care and when we do, it's a struggle to get the job done.

So get us some real Democrats and yep, things change in a big way. But when the corporate virus
of campaign contributions (aka illegal bribes) infects the politics, it's all over. Not much hope.

So, vote for Democrats. I will, as I have always, but the only way things will get done is to build
a ground swell of outrage the minute they're in. Getting a bigger majority this time, which we will,
just reinforces the inaction from 2006 to 2008. I refuse to take the word of a single elected official, ever.

Why won't anybody talk about the dead and orphaned, the lost and injured for life soldiers and their
families? Well, the Republicans can't because their party and policies created the problem, despite
their affirmation of great religious standards.

But where is our team?

So it's up to us.

No more faith in any individual, charismatic and charming as he or she might be, at any level of the
political process.

(Sorry to go on so long).