Throw the Bums Out...Ours, Too (by Frank Dwyer at HuffPost)

[marmar]

Frank Dwyer
Throw the Bums Out...Ours, Too
Posted August 5, 2007 | 05:09 AM (EST)



A plague a both your houses.

After another tiresome and moronic round of the same old discredited neocon booga-booga, enough of our Democratic Senators and Representatives have voted with their Republican colleagues to amend the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act and give our little Cromwellian Leader, our Little Lord Protector, just what he asked for: the right to continue "saving" us by continuing his unconstitutional (and thereby criminal) surveillance of us. One of my senators, Diane Feinstein of California, was one of the cross-over Democrats; she and the others have betrayed us, betrayed their party and their country, by this craven, shameful vote. I live in California, so I'll be able to support and work for any progressive candidate who challenges Senator Feinstein in any future campaign. She will never win another election in this progressive state.

We should make sure that none of the Democrats in the House or Senate who voted for this FISA amendment ever wins another election.

But what about conventional realpolitic? What if by opposing these neocon fellow-travelers we allow Republican troglodytes to win those seats? Minimum wage! Supreme Court! Global warming! Don't we have to stick to the hoary mantra of so many of our sad past trudges to the voting booth: two cheers for the lesser-of-two-evils! You'll have to make up your own mind, of course, but for me the compromise is over. Evil is evil, and I won't ever again vote for evil, even if it is "less" evil than the other choice the broken system is offering me.

As a matter of fact, I don't think Feinstein and her ilk any longer qualify as "lesser" evils. Democrats who voted to legitimize the law-breaking of this criminal president, long overdue for impeachment, Democrats who validated his contempt for the Constitution and his betrayal of his oath of office are, to me, more evil than standard-issue cartoon-villain Congressmen from that president's own irredeemably discredited and disgraced party. Make no mistake: I loathe, I anathematize, all the fiercely malignant, greedy, mean-spirited, rubber-stamping, corporofascist Republican leaders, but they can neither surprise nor wound me. I know them, I know what to expect of them; I know what they believe and what they will do if they think can get away with it. ("Government is not a SOLUTION to the problem. Government IS the problem," their grotesque old hero intoned. That means NO TAXES! Their only principle. NO TAXES! Though our children and grandchildren may fall with the falling bridges or be blown up by the bursting pipes, NO TAXES! If our children and grandchildren are so worried about old bridges and pipes, let them raise their own taxes, if they want to restore the infrastructure, fine, but they can pay for it themselves, if that's how they choose to throw away their lovely money.) ....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-dwyer/throw-the-bums-outours_b_59185.html

[acmavm]

1. Shame shame shame on you for posting this. Aren't you a good little dem

willing to blindly toe the party line? Aren't you satisfied with the 'they're doing the best they can' mantra? Tsk, tsk, tks.

:sarcasm:

edit: I agree with the author and you (for posting this).

[Berry Cool]

4. Same here.

I am lucky in that my Dem congresscritters did not shame themselves by voting for this. But if they had, I'd be bound and determined to get them the hell OUT and never let them win another election.

[BobRossi]

2. Not one Dem gets my vote in '08

Nor do they get one red cent of my hard earned. For me there is no election in '08, I'm sitting it out.

[bahrbearian]

3. It is a sad day in America ,when we have to purge our own party,

in order to Purge the Empire.

[Demeter]

5. It's the Sign of a National Mental Illness

AND A VAST CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY.

[jgraz]

6. This needs another kick

[grasswire]

7. those who lost 2000 for us are sure pleased....

...at the pealing off of the weak-hearted.

[depakid]

8. I've been hearing a LOT of this sentiment

It's as if the DINO's never learn.

I think the Dems are going to be in for a big surprise in 2008- and it will be well deserved.