while reading the many many posts here examining the countless outrageous acts committed by the republicans and the bushies, i noticed one singular fact:
the impotent response by "the opposing" party... the democrats. (i'll try to analyse what I see as the shortcomings of a "two-party" system in another post... one key bad part is when one of those two parties fails, you're stuck with only one party... where's the democracy in that?)
anyhow, with respect to the excellent post "ANNALS OF GOP SPYING: The 2003 Senate e-mail Hack & Leak" by leveymg... it gives everyone here a sick feeling in their stomach but will not change anything.
more on the flip
I'm not being snide to anyone but
where are the democrats with regards to this? why haven't THEY been trumpeting this? forget the MSM - hell, there is no liberal media bias - they're not going to print anything negative about this president. most important are the democrats: where is THEIR message?
as i keep saying - the democrats have no plan and no vision. hell - i don't think they'd agree on the color of shit right now.
this spying story should make them LIVID. however - where are the talking points? why aren't they hammering away at this?
when we see them on the telly, they continue to sound shrill and hollow and bitter. they should be angry and offended and outraged and holding press conference after press conference and always hitting on points centered on legal and moral standing. the message should be simple and on point.
continually pointing out the obvious (that somewhere in texas a village is missing an idiot) may be great fun and oh so true BUT it is NOT scoring voters NOR improving the image of the democrats. instead, they merely sound shill and petty.
they should have been so outraged when this happened they should have held press conference after conference and continue to hammer away at this. hell - they could have used time on the floor of the senate to highlight this. if the republicans refused to let them speak about it, they should have run out the cameras and held another press conference about how they're being strangled in Congress.
what have they done? they continue to harangue Dean and bicker about fundraising and focusing on hilary and data mining and a bunch of little shit.
like in history past - they're fiddling while Rome burns.
the democrats are like this huge body - with many disparate parts all fighting to live... but not realizing they're headless and without a brain or soul the body cannot live.
the democrats to FIRST grow a head and a brain. then they need to go about developing a platform and a message - and being an antagonist to Bush and Rove and Deadeye Dick is NOT going to change america - and face it folks, the republicans are reshaping america - IN THEIR IMAGE. IF we're going to stop it, we first need to picture how WE want america to look and then work to build support for that vision and then work to combat the republicans with that vision. Because, face it, the republicans are taking away every platform position the democrats run on - women's choice; civil liberties; peace and harmony with our world neighbors; etc.
if these things are so important - and the country is so important - its time the democrats stop fighting amongst themselves and start fighting the republicans and take back this country before there's nothing left to fight over.