Don’t Let Your Mouth Write a Check…
Why am I a cranky blogger? Because this has happened 1-2 times a week for the last five years :
Democrats : We’re going to do something about that horrible thing the Republicans are doingMe : Yay! Give ‘em hell!
Democrats : Nevermind. We didn’t have enough votes.
Of course for these wimpy Dems, this criticism is just seen as the ranting of a vitriolic blogger who’s looking for something to complain about, but one would hope that they could be honest enough with themselves to notice that the disappointment is based on criteria that they set up for themselves. If you keep promising to do something that you’re unable or unwilling to do, then you’re going to keep looking like a failure.
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Fucking Word.
I guess the difference is that I never expected the Dems to do much. I’m still pissed that a reliable liberal and decent human being (Linc Chafee) was voted out even though he was one of the few people with the foresight and backbone to be against the war from the start. He was replaced by a do-nothing careerist Democrat all in the name of “stopping the Republicans”. Yet somehow the Dems have done nothing except approve of wiretapping and a torturing attorney general. Meanwhile, we relected our Democratic reps who voted FOR the war.
Basically, I’m sick of both Dems and conservatives pretending that there is ANY kind of equivalence between “Democrat” and “Progressive.”
Comment by David Grenier — November 15, 2007 @ 9:40 am
Replace them all, one by one if need be, until all the vichy Dems are sent stumping off to the old lobbyists home.
Bloggers need to make politicians more scared of us than they are angry at us.
Think about what would happen if, say, the NRA supported a candidate who turned around and voted against the NRA’s interests, what do you think they would do about it?
They’d have attack ads ready to go and primary challengers lined up. They’d make that candidate into an ugly example of what happens when you f*ck w/ the NRA.
Bloggers need to go NRA on the Vichy Dem’s asses.
Comment by justathought — November 15, 2007 @ 2:13 pm
In other news, the Foundations frickin rocked. I, like just about everybody else, may have only heard two songs (’Buttercup’ and ‘Baby, Now That I’ve Found You’), but those are a couple of ‘oldies’ that I actually appreciate more each time I hear them.
Comment by Cris — November 16, 2007 @ 7:10 pm