No Harry, You Didn't Raise The Bar Too High-You Ducked Under The Bar

Democrats in Congress: The Wheels Are Coming Off
by dlindorff
Mon Jun 18, 2007

Democrats are losing support among not just independents and Republicans, but among their core members, because of an unwillingness to lead and to act on key issues.

The wheels are coming off the Democratic machine, with angry voters starting to lose patience with the Party’s chronic inability to act decisively on any of the key issues of public concern.

In a Reuters dispatch on June 18, Democratic leaders in Congress concede that voters are angry with them for not doing enough to end the Iraq War. They might have added that voters are also angry at them for not impeaching the president or even for moving on Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney (H Res. 333).

"I understand their disappointment. We raised the bar too high," bleats Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

No Harry. You didn’t raise the bar too high. You ducked under the bar, when it came time to act to defund the war.

more at:
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/18/143233/838

that allowed Bush to go to war for regime change rationale and ME opportunities, all predictably muffed up, scotched, cast aside and used to ruin America for Bush benefit. Or that refused to vote for the war because of the principles and rules but was powerless to do anything after that. Last election put in some more active leadership but squelched them into the same sandwich of non-action.

The funding vote- again- filled the bill with the same vile US policies supporting the oil industry and gave Bush an incredible second check. This time it appeared a joint effort with few exceptions between the anti-war principled people and the discredited old policy people who Bush will humiliate and discredit some more. The anti-funding eloquence won some careful quiet support from people avoiding the shame of the maneuver. Slipping in was a blank check for Iran and the rape of Iraq's oil until it runs dry.

No one was supposed to notice because the media desired these results and hides a lot of the real meat of the harm done. On the other hand it can't resist spinning some of the surface scum against the Dems and a lot of Dems see it very well for the inglorious thing it is. Same people, worse results, no surprise and none was ever really that guaranteed. The good work is still good and the bad leadership is still bad. The MSM and their purposefully blinded audience wax indignant at a whole other level of feigned or real ignorance. If you want change, elect new people not attached to the big money and the old clunky thinkers. A "president" cannot accomplish anything but an illusion greater than the reality. What a president can do is push the change faster and in a truer direction than electing more Sherrod Browns and Obeys to add more misfiring flintlocks to the antiquated miasma.

We just let the Repubs set the height and then see if we can match their slithering skills.