Reply #7: I keep wondering what... [View All]

[warren pease]

...we as a country did to deserve the simultaneous confluence of the worst administration in history and the most ineffectual congress in memory (although probably not in history), perfectly lined up like stars in the constellations of the zodiac and positioned to do the greatest possible harm and the least possible good.

Even as recently as Nixon, there were people of principle and courage in congress -- many on the GOP side of the aisle -- who for a variety of reasons decided that loyalty to the Constitution trumped loyalty to the executive branch.

Things started to really unravel with Reagan and the first true neocon administration, but at least Tip O'Neill was there to keep some of the worst excesses from becoming law and the craziest wingnut judges off of various federal benches.

Bush I spent so much time shooting himself in the foot it's amazing he wasn't confined to a wheelchair. All congress had to do was sit back and watch him self-destruct.

With Clinton, all pretense of bipartisanship disappeared and he spent eight solid years in the bulls eye of the Arkansas Project. But it's hard to have a lot of sympathy for him because a) much of the damage was self-inflicted and b) his triangulation strategy just turned him into a moderate/right republican, which made him one of the enemy.

But Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, Emanuel, H. Clinton and the rest of these DLC non-entities have no business going up against the true hard cases -- exceptionally awful people like Bush II, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales, Ashcroft, Hadley, Libby, Addington, Lott, Inhoff, Yoo, Bolton (a pair), Delay, Hastert, Frist and on down the lengthy list of GOP swine, PNAC fanatics, fundie loons, immoral tycoons, bloody minded mass murderers and pathological thieves who would happily snatch the last piece of Halloween candy from a toddler if they thought they could sell it at a big enough profit.

Strongly worded letters, my ass. Stern statements, indeed. That'll take care of things.

How pathetic is it when Chris Dodd has to filibuster his own party's leadership to keep Reid from sucking Bush's toes on telecom immunity? Or when Pelosi has so little control over the members of her own party that she can't predict within 50 votes how any given referendum is going to turn out.

It'll be great to see the end of Bush and Cheney, assuming they're actually leaving on schedule. But it would also be great to see the end of Pelosi, Reid et al, along with maybe 100 representatives posing as democrats and another 25 or so senators doing the same.

This would be a great year for a purge, with actual progressives taking the seats now occupied by these useless -- or worse -- pack of GOP enablers and gutless appeasers. Too bad I'm not the praying type, although I doubt that even prayer could displace corporate money in the grand sewage generation machine that is the capitol.

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