News FLASH!!! The Democrats are bought and sold just like the Republicans ... ... ...

So what is the difference again between the republicans and all but a very few Democrats (none of which are running for president)??

it's almost as though there were a conspiracy between the lazy and spineless democrats and the corrupt and evil republicans to create a patrician class!

...now where did I put my tinfoil hat again?

Spineless Bastards! Told you they'd kiss yer ass Georgie, told ya!!!

The analysis becomes a bit easier when you internalize the fact that the Reps and the Dems are not opposing factions at all, they are merely different departments of the same machine.

Here's another plausible scenario: Everyone from his the shrink who wrote Bush's biography (Justin A Frank, M.D.) to now each and every one of us absolutely knows for certain that Bush is a very mentally ill individual. We've seen his ridiculous bully sessions and his egomaniacal rants often scratching our heads wondering if he truly does live in his own "personal bubble world". This fact is being confirmed with each passing day as more people listen to his embarrassingly uninformed, uneducated, and totally egocentric babble. In fact, the GOP recently told him that he didn't need to attend their convention since so many of his own are horrified by his antics.

Could it be that Congress at this critical time in this lame duck's near departure from being minutes away from pushing the red button KNOW that pinning him into a corner from which there is no perceived exit (Just like his big buddy and prime sycophant KKKarl) may very well push him into finally "proving to the world how powerful he is" by taking another criminal action against Iran? This would be devastating particularly at this point in his exit from office. He still has several months time to inflict even more damage on this country and the rest of the world before leaving office.

Could it be that they've seen the profound psychiatric illness firsthand? Could it be that they're just holding their collective breath, as is every American, that Inauguration Day will magically appear and we can all give him the royal finger on the way out of Dodge?

This is becoming more a probability with each passing day. This one president has done more damage to this country than all of his predecessors combined. We only have 6 months left to hold our breaths before this clown disappears and goes into hiding in Paraguay.

One has to wonder if Congress isn't actually using very sound judgment in giving him his way on FISA. They know the consequences of a "cornered animal". They know that there's still plenty more damage which this lameduck can do to this country before he exits stage reich.

osiris @ 12:

Here's another plausible scenario: ...

One has to wonder if Congress isn't actually using very sound judgment in giving him his way on FISA. They know the consequences of a "cornered animal". They know that there's still plenty more damage which this lameduck can do to this country before he exits stage reich.

Okay, I could see that, but why didn't congress just appoint him eternal ruler of North Crawford, Texas; or vote to give him a shiny new marble to play with?

Now I understand Obama's strategy!

Will someone please add the American Brain Cell to the endangered species list?

yes, I think it is safe to say that if Bush is impeached he will launch all nuclear missles and destroy the planet.

....it's gad's will.

Yes, I will be donating to the ACLU.

Edwin Hussein @ 18:

alzuben @ 6:

it's almost as though there were a conspiracy between the lazy and spineless democrats and the corrupt and evil republicans to create a patrician class!

...now where did I put my tinfoil hat again?

The patrician class already exists, now they're just cementing it with laws. Who are these people if not aristocrats?

of course it already exists....but I would hardly call them 'aristocrats'. I would say 'Barbarians draped in gold' would be more accurate.

So, let's all toast the cowardly sheep who now so willingly roll over and sacrifice their freedoms and rights in the name of more weekend sales!

The Democrats are like the loser who keeps getting beat up by bullies, then decides to join a gym, take martial arts classes, make friends with other victims, and then when they're bulked up and strong, they continue to allow themselves to be beaten up by the bully.

Here's one Democrat who is bucking the "Lets Be Weak Democrats Strategy"

An email from Chris Dodd that I received today:

Yesterday was a sad day for the United States Senate.

It is my hope that the courts will undo the damage done to the Constitution.

But let us stand tall, knowing that by working together we were able to make wiretapping and retroactive immunity part of the national discourse these last number of months.

We came together – all of you, Senator Feingold, bloggers like Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald, organizations like the EFF and ACLU, and untold hundreds of thousands of Americans who simply wanted to make sure that this one, last insult did not happen with ease.

I'm sorry we weren't successful.

I just hope I'm lucky enough to have you by my side in the next fight, whatever that may be.

Thanks for all you've done.

Chris Dodd

It's called bribery. Who do you think they were wiretapping? Congress.

angry young man @ 26:

While this FISA capitulation infuriates me as an American, that is very pre-9/11 thinking. We don't live in America anymore. Instead, we live in a Balkanized nation where every person has to fight for themselves and doesn't have to fight for anyone else, where the government is presumed to be correct, and where no advantage of power can be given up. So the Dems didn't capitulate, really. Figuring they'll have the White House and both houses of Congress in six months, they just gave themselves greater power. Now, for once, we can be the people spying on the opposite political party, imprisoning them, and making our own laws. Sure, this might lead to executions in football stadiums, but it'll be the Republicans being executed. At least at first.

Anarchy. That is what I suspect you are saying. I believe that we might be looking at French-type solution, although I am not calling for that.

ranch111 @ 22:

Obama apoloigists: "We think that Obama's decision on FISA was wrong, but we still support him."

Are the Obama supporters braindead? Please, quit fainting over this guy and realize he is just another political hack.

So what do you suggest? Idaho militia?

And Chris Dodd is the balls.

I can't overstate my dissapointment with the spineless, gutless Dems. Good for nothing, entrenched, DC crowd, that obviously could CARE LESS about the rest of the American people.

If it were up to me, I'd throw them all out.

Something to consider. If I remember right there are still some missing nukes. I think there may have been some very serious threats from the administration.

We were duped in 06. They aren't doing anything except protecting their own interests and bank accounts.

It all comes down to the fact that it is really our fault. We voted for them, we kept them in office. IF we as Americans had some balls we would throw every single darn one of them out in the cold and start all over. There is not excuse for them to vote overwhelmingly to approve the disastrous things bush wants.

And all the flaming the slurring the lying by the good old boy blogs we see where obama is worst than any candidate, he broke his promise about the FISA bill. Is he next going to approve offshore drilling. He doesn't want to approve a summer holiday for gas taxes saying he is going to have an investigation of the oil company. Hell we all know how far that will get...LOOK AT ROVE AS AN EXAMPLE...THUMBING HIS NOSE AND LEAVING THE COUNTRY.

ranch111 @ 22:

Obama apoloigists: "We think that Obama's decision on FISA was wrong, but we still support him."

Are the Obama supporters braindead? Please, quit fainting over this guy and realize he is just another political hack.

Good point. His letter regarding his FISA stance was wishy washy to say the least. What is the alternative though? Grandpa who can't remember when he had his last affair or if he changed his underwear when he woke up this morning? I am all for more than two parties, but just don't see it happening. Sad.

Again I ask:

Is C&L doing any coverage of the Green Party's National Convention, which is happening RIGHT NOW in Chicago?

Well, obviously not. Look. You can't complain about the Democrats and refuse to look at the alternatives that are there. Yes, there is a specific effort to marginalize third parties, but when progressives allow them to be marginalized, you get what you deserve.

People come to C&L because they don't trust mainstream press, right? Politically, t's the same concept. You also have to take the initiative and support non-corporate politics. You can make the "pragmatic" argument that Green candidates can't win. But look what this pragmatism has really gotten us. The same old stuff, time after time. But Greens are actually are winning at the local level and those places that have Greens in office have not burned to the ground or experienced any pestilence. We would have heard about that.

It's funny, a friend of mine who kept insisting that Obama's a Muslim, is actually relieved that he's only another corporate clown. We need to set the bar higher, folks.

I hate John McCain, but at least he was smart enough to be absent during this vote. Again, Bob Barr is starting to look pretty good at this point.

Stuart Bedasso @ 46:

Again I ask:

Is C&L doing any coverage of the Green Party's National Convention, which is happening RIGHT NOW in Chicago?

Well, obviously not. Look. You can't complain about the Democrats and refuse to look at the alternatives that are there. Yes, there is a specific effort to marginalize third parties, but when progressives allow them to be marginalized, you get what you deserve.

People come to C&L because they don't trust mainstream press, right? Politically, t's the same concept. You also have to take the initiative and support non-corporate politics. You can make the "pragmatic" argument that Green candidates can't win. But look what this pragmatism has really gotten us. The same old stuff, time after time. But Greens are actually are winning at the local level and those places that have Greens in office have not burned to the ground or experienced any pestilence. We would have heard about that.

It's funny, a friend of mine who kept insisting that Obama's a Muslim, is actually relieved that he's only another corporate clown. We need to set the bar higher, folks.

Personally, I have voted Green, Socialist and independent before. But not when there could be up to four SCOTUS seats up for grabs.

eric @ 43:

Bush is also another word for pubic hair.

I think "merkin" is more aplicable in this situation, he's a fake beard covering for the real genital....Cheney.

"There comes a point when you have to wonder whether or not the
Democrats actually support some of these disastrous bills they help
usher through Congress."

Come on! What's to wonder? The rubber hits the road when these clowns cast
their votes, right? If you don't understand this, then you are a sucker.

Want to stop the Democrats' spineless ways? STOP VOTING DEMOCRATIC!!!!
(I have -- making exception only for time-proven progressives, like Oakland's
Congresswoman Barbara Lee.) By the way, I will NOT be voting Obama
this year. He is just another ambitious Democrat and will sell us down
the river -- just like he did on this FISA bill.

Here's a cardinal rule for voting: Don't forget promises; don't
forgive broken promises; and don't let them triangulate you. Stick by
your politics or you will truly deserve the bad politics you enabled
through stupid compromises. The reason so many Democrats voted for
this absolutely abominable FISA legislation is that they observe none
of these rules -- and neither do the voters who put them into office.

So this November when I vote for Ralph Nader -- and you all accuse me
of helping put John McCain in the White House -- I will simply reply
(as I have always done): "I voted to put Ralph Nader in the White
House because Clinton/Gore/Obama are a bunch of side-winding
triangulators, and they deserve defeat for their thousand-and-one
Faustian compromises."

If enough of us stuck by our guns, then maybe those weak-kneed
Democrats (Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Feinstein, Reid, etc. etc. etc!!)
would get the message that they will lose their base big-time by
supporting such unholy compromises with the degenerates in the White
House. The GOP base, and the party it controls, seems to understand
this principle. Why don't progressives get it?

-dp

heretic @ 51:

This is simple. The Dems are going to win. They will, therefore, inherit all the powers they are granting the Bush administration and in the process will curry favor with the real power. I think we can all admit, now that Congress has no power to even get Karl Rove to testify and the president may break the law with impunity until the Congress can get around to tailoring the law to his actions retroactively, that we have a puppet government. I have been saying this for like three years now. We need to admit it. We're working our way down the slippery slope that starts with benevolent dictatorship and ends who knows where.

Amen, M. Heretic. You are dead right -- which means we are all dead!

here is the Democratic political strategy in a nutshell:

if things get bad enough because of the republicans, the voters will have to pick us just to avoid more republican rule.

we all know that mcC*nt was never going to be a serious candidate.

we are supposed to consider Barack Obama after he
-votes for FISA
-supports 'states rights'
-opposes women's right to choose
-refuses to oust LIEberman once Obama became the leader of the Democratic Party

The dems must be Leninists.

That is the only fucking thing that makes any fucking sense at all.

Let the reptiles destroy and ruin everything completely and then they'll pick up the pieces?

Is that their strategy?

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 58:

here is the Democratic political strategy in a nutshell:

if things get bad enough because of the republicans, the voters will have to pick us just to avoid more republican rule.

we all know that mcC*nt was never going to be a serious candidate.

we are supposed to consider Barack Obama after he
-votes for FISA
-supports 'states rights'
-opposes women's right to choose
-refuses to oust LIEberman once Obama became the leader of the Democratic Party

Flip flops and increases troop levels in Iraq to 300,000 in March '09.

I'm a voter! I vote local, county, state and national. I haven't missed a presidential vote since 1968, my first year to vote. I'm now leaning toward not voting in Nov. I know I cannot vote for McCrazy and beginning to believe that I cannot vote for Obama with a clear conscience and I refuse to hold my nose to vote ever again. I fully understand the perils concerning the Supreme Court but we should have impeached 5 of those bastards in 2000 when they overstepped their authority and destroyed this country with a lunatic. Maybe we need to hit rock bottom before the people pick up those pitchforks and head to Washington to clear out the trash and take our country back.

Pitchforks, torches!!

CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Democratic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 58:

here is the Democratic political strategy in a nutshell:

if things get bad enough because of the republicans, the voters will have to pick us just to avoid more republican rule.

we all know that mcC*nt was never going to be a serious candidate.

we are supposed to consider Barack Obama after he
-votes for FISA
-supports 'states rights'
-opposes women's right to choose
-refuses to oust LIEberman once Obama became the leader of the Democratic Party

LIEberman and Sen Obama are old pals. I'm surprised he doesn't ask him to run as his VP.

Bluesage @ 64:

I'm a voter! I vote local, county, state and national. I haven't missed a presidential vote since 1968, my first year to vote. I'm now leaning toward not voting in Nov. I know I cannot vote for McCrazy and beginning to believe that I cannot vote for Obama with a clear conscience and I refuse to hold my nose to vote ever again. I fully understand the perils concerning the Supreme Court but we should have impeached 5 of those bastards in 2000 when they overstepped their authority and destroyed this country with a lunatic. Maybe we need to hit rock bottom before the people pick up those pitchforks and head to Washington to clear out the trash and take our country back.

please don't not vote.

vote a write-in character...even if it is one of your neighbors. Pick somebody you have known and respected and write them in. You will feel infinitely better than having not voted at all...and for once in your life you will truly be voting for somebody you believe should be leading us.

hmoore @ 69:

Speaking of "merkins".... the train of thought led me to a darkly hilarious Peter Sellers movie in which he played, among others, President Merkin Muffley. However, Preznit Boosh is not Merkin Muffley. No, W is looking more and more like General Jack D. Ripper.

"I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

....and later, in the war room....

"The duty officer asked President Bush to confirm the fact the he had issued the go code and he said, 'Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them, otherwise we will be totally destroyed by terrorist retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, fourteen hundred megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now. So let's get going. There's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.' Then he hung up."

I can easily see KKKarl Rove as Dr. Strangelove. "Mein Fuhrer! I can valk!"

P.O.E. ....baby

If those who supported the FISA bill received an average of $8,359 from the telecoms, seems to me it makes GOOD sense for citizens to reward those who voted against it by donating money to them for debt reduction or campaign financing.

I wonder what the figures are for citizen donations to those who voted against it? Anybody know?

Dave @ 65:

Hasn't it gotten through to you yet? Haven't you been watching? The Democratic party and the Republican party are but two sides of the same coin. They are both working towards the same things. They don't care about "we the people" at all. They are working for their real masters: the Corporatocracy. How many ways do they have to slap us all in the face before it becomes completely transparent that their goals and the peoples goals are no where near the same?

George Carlin-http://youtube.com/watch?v=9KReZyAZLI0

Excellent point. As Gore Vidal once observed, there are very few differences between the two major parties in this country, as one is the extreme right wing while the other is the right wing.

Ok, maybe the Democrats bowed to Bush on FISA because they fear being seen as 'weak.' I doubt it. I think the more likely (and troubling) answer is that the Democrats AGREE with Bush on FISA and other issues. The rising fascist movement in American politics isn't a purely Republican thing; the Democrats have been in control on Congress since 2006 and they have yet to do ANYTHING to counter Bush's powers or to uphold their SWORN DUTY to protect the Constitution.

Don't kid yourselves, folks: the Democrats aren't going to save us. They are part of the problem. And, sadly, Obama is showing himself to be the wrong Democratic candidate. His flip-flop on campaign money is minor compared to his flip-flop on the FISA bill. I'll still vote for him in November, but only because McCain is an even worse choice.

But I predict that an Obama presidency won't do much to fix or reverse the last 8 years of rising fascism. If anything, it'll just show that fascism is truly a bipartisan ideology.

Oh, well--America was a great thing while it lasted (just over 200 years by my count).

The Dimocrats were bowing but not scraping?

Not even scraping the barnacles of boosh's dingy?

Have the democrats been so abused by Bush they are suffering battered wife syndrome? Maybe we should start electing more aggressive, in your face, feminist viragos. Perhaps they wouldn't be so timid about cutting someone's nuts off, even if it is the president's.

VietVet8666 @ 31:

The lesser of two evils.

Anyone but McCain.
jesus christ yes , put on a gas mask if you want to vote for a bum like obama, the trouble is youll have to wear it for four years of selling you out, we will still be in iraq , in afganistan and maby turn iran ito rubble , but vote for stink youll learn to love the smell of a toilets stink pipe!
A bad Dem is always better than a Repub.

Vote Obama.

laughing gas takle a break, dont they give you monitors coffey braks?

I donated to the ACLU again here now on a monthly basis. I may have to get my money back from Obama to make the payments. This to help in my tiny way in overturning this hideous crime of a bill.

Glenn Greenwald was on NPR last night with Katrina vanden Heuvel. Two of my favorite people when it comes to rational political thinking.

Katrina is going a little soft on Obama.

Jonathan Turley who never pulls a punch and rounds out my top three described the FISA situation most poignantly.

I'll paraphrase:

It is the Congress conspiring with the Executive to cover up a series of crimes.

Multiple felonies by George Bush being covered up in plain view.

18 USC

Sec. 3. Accessory after the fact

-STATUTE-
Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has
been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the
offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or
punishment, is an accessory after the fact.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by any Act of Congress, an
accessory after the fact shall be imprisoned not more than one-half
the maximum term of imprisonment or (notwithstanding section 3571)
fined not more than one-half the maximum fine prescribed for the
punishment of the principal, or both; or if the principal is
punishable by life imprisonment or death, the accessory shall be
imprisoned not more than 15 years.

Sec. 4. Misprision of felony

-STATUTE-
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony
cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not
as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other
person in civil or military authority under the United States,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three
years, or both.

We don't have a country.

We have mafioso for an executive and their henchmen in congress.

There is only a brave few.

Obama fell in with the wrong crowd.

I don't do bowing.

#2, 3 & 6 (among others) are correct: It's called a RULING CLASS for a reason!

They rule the peasants and pretend to care what we think (briefly) every election cycle before sticking it to us again. They want an all-powerful fascist juggernaut of a gov't. to keep the restive populace in line (& they've got the MSM to help enable that) and define every "problem" in a way that guarantees their own intere$t$.

We can't have national health care like every other industrialized society, too expensive! But we can invade countries thousands of miles away and slaughter millions and it's noble and brave. We can shred the constitution, bail out the big guys and give no-bid contracts to our Halliburton buddies . . . but Pelosi says "impeachment is off the table." You get the idea.

And Obama's already signaled to the ruling class that he won't be rocking the boat too much. Voting won't change anything, the only thing that could is a revolution, and the 'Murikan people are currently too passive and hypnotized by the teevee & high tech. Expect a change when the shit really hits the fan. In 1 year? 5? 10? Ten's the high end of my estimate . . .

The Democratic Party makes pond scum seem brilliant in comparison. I have no doubt pond scum could beat your typical Dem strategist in any strategic game.

and what happened after bush got his FISA way............he immediately called the dems the cause of the high gas prices and called for drilling off the coasts.
it would be hilarious if it were a dark comedy, but its pathetic when REAL. this is scary people. bush and his ilk seem all to willing to drive us all into oblivion.
this is total bullcrap. the dems are really starting to piss me off too. who wants to ride a spineless horse???? anyone ?? anyone??? it makes for a real short and anxiety ridden ride.
obama projected strength and intelligence, but now he has made 1 big mistake. he gets one big one and that's IT.

the media at the meantime seem to be building up mcinsane and tearing obama into shreds.

if you didn't think fascism before ...you might want to start considering it....it would be the only explanation of a mcinsane win. because the guy is bonkers...just like bush.

Robert59 @ 93:

What were they supposed to do? Pass something the president would veto and lose the election in November. What Republicans salivate over is an attack on this soil and no new FISA law. They would keep the presidency and gain majorities in both houses.

The truth is Democrats are in the majority, but with 51 in the Senate (including Joe) they are weak.

This isn't a sprint, but a marathon. To make the change we all want we need 60 Democrats in the Senate and 279 in the House and a Democrat as president. I can see why some strategists thought it better to stay in the minority in '06; Democrats now get blamed for everything because they are 'the majority'.

Let the Felon Bush veto a law that doesn't let his buddies at AT&T off the hook (pun intended).

None of this is about the national security. It is about getting the telecoms who got huge surveillance contracts for illegal actions immunity.

If Bush would have followed FISA in the first place it would not have been necessary.

Not following FISA is a felony which they have committed many times over. He believes he is above the law.

The Democrats have proved him right.

The Democrats will lose the election because they are groveling at the feet of the reptiles.

I can't understand this except to say that the Democrats are reptiles themselves.

These people are all fascists.

oh really @ 89:

Sometimes I think most Democrats in Congress are more afraid of responsibility than anything else. Believing in things and taking stands means taking responsibility, and there is little evidence that Democrats are willing to step up.

If there were another major terrorist attack on US soil and the Dems could be certain they wouldn't be blamed...I doubt if most of them would really care. Sure, if it killed a family member or damaged personal property, they'd probably be willing to give Bush permission to start WWIII, but politically speaking, they'd be fine.

i think they just wanted the job because they think its a free ride and a boost to their ego.

David Hill @ 95:

What the Democrats desperately need to stop doing is allowing the GOP do to whatever the hell they want and when things go wrong, point and say 'see? its their fault'

Oh, it's much worse than that. They are using the retarded strategy of having a majority voting with the Repubs. Then when they try to point to the Repubs and say it's their fault, they are left looking like gullible fools when anyone responds: "What the hell are you Dem congresscritters complaining about the Repubs for? Most of you are voting for the same Bush bills, idiots."

thank you dems ... for making us losers!

Just read the newsweek article about Obama.

Obama dropped from a 15 point lead to a 3 point lead after he started pandering to the 30% far-right crowd? What a friggin' idiot. The idiot doesn't deserve to win. I had been looking at CNN polls where he went from 4 to 6% lead. But this is much more damning.

They bowed down?They bent over with their mouths wide open!

Pete Rooke, you forgot to take your meds.

To all the dem apologists, one thing they could have done is to repeat ad nauseam that dear decider was spying on Americans starting Feb 2001 and look where that got us, and it wouldn't have been a smear or a lie. The republicks love to claim that we should have nothing to fear about domestic spying unless we have al kida on our speed dial, again the dems could have countered with if they have nothing to fear then they shouldn't need immunity. Instead, they chose to let the republicks smear them with the terrarist supporter anti-american label. Great leadership there, frakin losers.

Regarding the comment that it may seem that some dems are supportive of those policies, well duh. Heck, right now I wouldn't be surprised if it was Obama's goal to get the election results close enough to allow mccain to steal it. Seriously, he's a center right candidate, ie conservative, and in order to move to the "center" he moves further right. Obviously this move will alienate plenty of people on the left and the center while gaining very little votes from the "all dems and libruls need to be sent to concentration camps" crowd. So what then is the end result of that, oh right, very close elections. And yet dems keep playing that strategy. Either they are incredibly stupid, actually support the republicks in that, or both. Take your pick.

Don't you all get it yet? Or even some of you?

Bush ain't wiretapping the average Amurrikan...
And he doesn't give a rat's ass about listening to the "terrorists"...
That doesn't serve his/their agenda at all.

Who Bush IS wiretapping and gathering information on,
is THE DEMOCRATS! And the Republicans too, actually.

Think about it:
Bush & Cheney have access to every detail about every mistress,
every bribe, every gay closet, every lewd act,
every drug addiction, and on and on and on.

It's bascially Watergate 1000-fold. Except it's not just one building
they snuck into to steal info and secrets. It's anyONE and everyWHERE.

How else can you possibly explain the utterly abominable
spinelessness of the Democrats? Easy - They've been read the riot
act by these criminals: Do as we say, or your secret comes out.

And how to explain how the Republican party has been
completely hijacked to vote in lockstep too? Same deal.

And what politician is gonna come out publicly and say
"Well, I voted the way I did because Bush is blackmailing
me with info about the woman I'm screwing behind my wife's back" ??

I just can't see any other way to explain the constant caving in
and bowing down to the WORST, most UNPOPULAR president in
the history of this country.

Maybe in 2004, it might've seemed smart to throw Bush support...
But now, with the avalanche of all the lies and crimes exposed,
AND three years of barely getting above 30% approval?

WHAT DRUGS ARE THEY ON, IF THIS ISN'T THE EXPLANATION?

alzuben @ 55:

heretic @ 51:

This is simple. The Dems are going to win. They will, therefore, inherit all the powers they are granting the Bush administration and in the process will curry favor with the real power. I think we can all admit, now that Congress has no power to even get Karl Rove to testify and the president may break the law with impunity until the Congress can get around to tailoring the law to his actions retroactively, that we have a puppet government. I have been saying this for like three years now. We need to admit it. We're working our way down the slippery slope that starts with benevolent dictatorship and ends who knows where.

...well, for the Romans, that meant the rise of Christianity!

eric @ 43:

Bush is also another word for pubic hair.

Christianity=christiansanity

The democrats have been mostly guttless -- Pelosi took impeachment off the table before a single hearing to find out how much of the constitution had been trashed by bushy/cheeeny. And now with FISA -- the dems forgive all the sins -- even before we have gathered the facts. It's all gonna be better next year, ignor what we are doing now is bullshit --- and so much of the democratic party is buying this crap from their own party. Please someone out there must have better insight than I ---- how can the dems not kick george's butt -- he is hated by the public in vast numbers? Go back a year and poll any large group of democrats and paint the political picture we have today --- their reaction would be powerful ---- it seems we have all become that fucking frog in the slowly boiling pot of water --- we ain't getting out.....................

President Bush may be the worst unpopular President ever, but in a lot of Republicans' minds he is the best & most popular President ever. President Bush just has too much power, & power equals popularity in Washington. He always gets his way, no matter what, which is very Machiavellian, I feel.