Voters put Democrats in control of both houses of Congress....Republicans are still running things.

from Truthdig:



The Silent Majority


Posted on Oct 2, 2007
By Marie Cocco

WASHINGTON—Voters put Democrats in control of both houses of Congress last fall and for this act of civic determination, they face an infuriating conundrum. Republicans are still running things.

The same folks who brought you the Iraq War, the refusal to act on the health insurance crisis, the fiscal meltdown that leaves crucial government functions underfunded while managing to drive up the national debt are still bringing you: the Iraq War, the refusal to act on health insurance and a looming showdown over spending priorities that leaves the fiscal meltdown unaddressed.

After the “thumpin’” President Bush says his party suffered in the midterm elections, a few things were supposed to happen. The White House was supposed to adapt to the new political terrain, negotiating with the opposition on most matters—especially rudimentary legislation such as annual spending bills—and only draw strategic lines-in-the-sand with selective vetoes that involve a president’s core principles. This is what most contemporary presidents who confront a Congress dominated by the opposition party have done. Bush hasn’t.

Republicans in Congress—especially in the House—were supposed to learn from their mistakes and stop backing themselves. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071002_the_silent_majority/

Is still a republipuke.

They just need to start doing it in the same manner their Republican predecessors did it.

But that would take something they obviously don't have.

I had such high hopes for both of them in January, and to say they've been a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. :(

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6964537,00.html

quote:

```Thwarted in efforts to bring troops home from Iraq, Senate Democrats helped pass a defense policy bill authorizing another $150 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Monday's 92-3 vote comes as the House planned to approve separate legislation Tuesday that requires President Bush to give Congress a plan for eventual troop withdrawals. ```



MORE WAR FOR BUSH FROM HIS PALS IN THE GOP AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

NOW, AREN'T YOU GLAD THERE IS NO DRAFT??


A question for those of you who have been demanding a draft ---

** Since many of you wrote to your Congresspeople and previously demanded a draft, are you now re-writing in order to demand an end to the Selective Service system? **

not news at all.

fucking spineless corporate whores as well !

they don't even know how to respond on their own behalf when that possibility becomes available. The uncivil way that the current crop of Republicans treat their Democratic "colleagues" gives credence to the idea that this abuse was PLANNED to bring about this very result.

An example presented itself recently when some Democrats in Congress wanted to attach a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq to a military appropriations bill. Even though it was a sure thing that Bush would veto it, this presented a no-cost way to point out to the American people that it was Bush/Cheney and the right-wing Republicans that were holding the troops hostage to their aims.

Because the Democrats claimed that they couldn't find enough Republicans to vote for their bill to override a veto, they just caved and didn't even put up a fight. This refusal to even try shows how demoralized the Democrats have become due to years of abuse at the hands of Republicans. This indicates, moreover, that we need new, progressive Democrats in Congress who haven't been so demoralized that they can't fight back.

Moreover, if Congress had sent a bill with a withdrawal time table to Bush, and he vetoed it, then he looks bad to a majority of the country, which wants to get out of Iraq. Then politically astute Democrats, if we had any, could go to Republicans on the fence, point to grumblings by the people over a Bush veto, and talk them into abandoning their lame-duck president to avoid a Republican bloodbath in the 2008 elections. This was worth a try at least once, yet our Democratic leaders cowardly caved in to the Republicans without so much as a whimper. Disgusting!