Come on
Digby:
When will the Democratic pundits admit that their leaders have been nothing more than shameless enablers of the right wing takeover for about as many years as I've been alive?
The 2004 presidential election was the biggest sham ever perpetrated on the American people. No, that's not quite right, 9/11 would have to take that shameful spot. No, perhaps it's handing Bush the authorization to use military force, thereby opening the way for endless, undefined war (and endless, undefined war powers for the executive) without the need of Congressional vote, or, conveniently, responsbility.
Admiting to those realities and the Dems' enabling role and changing the paradigm would take leadership and guts, the antithesis of "fecklessness." But Kerry could care less.
On the bright side, "Democrat=feckless" has entered the mainstream. (thanks Harry, for your tireless efforts)
Digby:
But the way some people are acting, if we now lose this one [Alito] it will be seen by the grassroots as just another example of Democratic fecklessness, even Kerry's fecklessness, which is self-defeating and unfair. If we carp when our elected politicans take risks just as we carp when they don't take risks, they have no motivation to listen to us at all.
When will the Democratic pundits admit that their leaders have been nothing more than shameless enablers of the right wing takeover for about as many years as I've been alive?
The 2004 presidential election was the biggest sham ever perpetrated on the American people. No, that's not quite right, 9/11 would have to take that shameful spot. No, perhaps it's handing Bush the authorization to use military force, thereby opening the way for endless, undefined war (and endless, undefined war powers for the executive) without the need of Congressional vote, or, conveniently, responsbility.
Admiting to those realities and the Dems' enabling role and changing the paradigm would take leadership and guts, the antithesis of "fecklessness." But Kerry could care less.
On the bright side, "Democrat=feckless" has entered the mainstream. (thanks Harry, for your tireless efforts)
