Reply #6: I would join with the others in saying No, and add a few thoughts [View All]

[Savannah Progressive]

Many of the other posts touched upon a few of my thoughts, but not all of them, nor the historical context in which we can examine the performance of our elected leaders of this party.

First, in each Election year, our elected become more and more like Repugnik lite for example, a few months ago they celebrated "killing the PATRIOT Act" and now voted for Cloture on an amendment to that act, which they later approved an extension for so they could go on vacation.

We watched in 2004, waiting for Senator Kerry and the Dem's to get tough, and fight back. They ignored the Swift Boaters, and it hurt them, badly. They ignored and failed to respond to the claims of the Repugniks on talk radio, and on Faux News, and it hurt them. More people saw Senator Kerry as a Liberal, then saw him accurately as a Moderate. We kept waiting for the fight to start, praying that Senator Kerry would become as impassioned as we have seen him in the past, and it didn't happen. We last saw Senator Kerry in that passion defending Representative Murtha from the Repugnik attacks, yet we didn't see that passion in response to the Swift Boat liars for Repugniks. Finally, CBS put out some information on Bush's national Guard story, and almost fought for it, yet folded when faced with a few loony Right Wing Bloggers.

We see all the opportunities, we see all the chances, we even do the work for them, doing the research, connecting the dots, linking to dozens of articles. We present current and retired experts in the fields, who agree with our synopsis, and we are ignored utterly. How many times have we done the research, adding to each others information, coming up with a complete picture of any event, or theory? Do we ever see anything from our elected leaders in Washington? They might mention the research, the facts we have developed in passing in an interview. They don't even give us the common courtesy of disproving anything that may be inaccurate.

Instead, WE are left defending the rights of the many who are trampled upon, because our Washington DC elected people are busy denouncing the process, instead of denouncing the actions, if they denounce anything.

The spying of the White House on every individual who get's an e-mail, or a phone call, is just the latest of the marshmallow spined elected leaders collapses. Not one of them has, to the best of my knowledge, called on the program to be shut down. Not one of these cowards has demanded that the NSA cease and desist from any and all wiretaps without proper court authorization. How much time must we allow to go by before it's stopped? Is it going to be a perpetual campaign issue? Will the next Presidential Candidates be asked questions on if they plan on continuing this program? The way we are moving on this, or not moving, the Presidential Debates of 2012 is likely to have questions concerning the dedication of the candidate to continue this program, even if we win this year, and in 08.

We take every issue, every scandal, and instead of bashing those responsible, we promptly fold those cards, and toss them away. This disgust at watching our elected officials fold every single time, to the corrupt Repugniks, is beyond frustrating, well and truly into intolerable.

Folding time and time again, on Roberts, Alito, the PATRIOT Act, The Budget, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, and I could go on and on and on. Most of us who believe in the Constitution could name many examples. It wouldn't matter, because they have already folded on this one, and we know they will fold on every issue.