No Time, No Spine! Democratically-Controlled Congress Capitulates to Bush's War of Perpetuity

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/7601

No Time, No Spine! Democratically-Controlled Congress Capitulates to Bush's War of Perpetuity
by Frank J Ranelli | May 21 2007


Minimum wage increase trumps ending Bush’s war, Democrats cave and bow to Bush’s demand of perpetual war funds.

The mainstream media is reporting that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and their minions of enablers in the Democratic Party are waving the white flag and acquiescing to Bush’s bullying and demand for a “clean bill” to fund his illegitimate Iraq war for a further six months. All timelines for withdraw are to be removed from the latest legislation. The conciliation is yet another example “proving the posit” that the Democrats do not want to end this war; they were only posturing and prevaricating for the press and the people who elected them.

Exactly what, if anything, does Bush have to concede in order to receive his unending endowment of evil? In full display of cowardice and spinelessness, Reid and Pelosi appear to accept Bush’s pledge to approve of a federal minimum wage increase – a pittance and trifle amount of 70-cent increases over the next three years – in exchange for 124 billion dollars to wage an incessant, insidious and pointless war of belligerence.

So, what’s going on here? Congress is, and has always been, complicit in this war of aggression and inhumane act of senseless death and violence. The Democrat's opposition to Bush’s illegal act of hostility was a canard and merely to appease the anti-war advocates for voting them into office. I will say it again, as I did in my last article, the Democrats do not wish to end, nor reign in Bush, the war or his de facto expanded powers; they wish to possess it.

A long over-due federal, minimum wage increase for unmitigated mayhem, American supremacy and hegemony is how Democrats define “success” and is the essence of the Clintonian triangulation strategy. Give enormous concessions to the power-that-be and throw a few inklings of goodwill to the disadvantaged in hopes of atonement for their unforgivable transgressions against the real underpinnings of this country.

Bush, the “Dour” Furor, has finally gotten his wish.

[MethuenProgressive]

1. The comments section is afire - Perry Logan has made some excellent points, though

Click on the smirkingchimp link in the OP, and scroll down to read Perry Logan's remarks.

[elocs]

2. I read the points. Apparently the Democrats are doing something.

The resentment here by many at DU is that the Democrats don't do things the way they think they should be done or fast enough, that the Democrats in Congress don't jump through their hoops, so therefore they must be Dinos. Evidently Pelosi and Reid should post here and explain and justify all of their actions as well as revealing all of their strategies in order to mollify the naysayers. Doubtless, no matter what they do there will be some here that are not satisfied.

[GeorgeGist]

4. 'Apparently the Democrats are doing something'

I'm so relieved. And here I thought they just couldn't accept Bush's VETO of more war funding as the answer.
:freak:
:nuke:

[elocs]

6. You read the list then?

Just because the Democrats are not doing exactly what you or others want concerning Iraq does not they are doing nothing. Perhaps Pelosi and Reid should let us all know about their strategies or reasons for doing this as they do and not as we want, except then the Republicans would know too. Or perhaps we could simply have a running poll on each issue that they could read in order to let them know exactly what the right thing is to do since they are evidently so clueless.

[blueworld]

3. Perry Logan is impressed with flags at half-mast?

How about no need for that? We're supposed to be grateful for Congressional oversight which has always been part of their Constitutional mandate & simply hasn't been done for 7 years? We should be thrilled they're beginning to stir & do their jobs?

Strengthening a union bill while approving a trade pact guaranteed to give the mega-corps more incentive to ship jobs overseas to countries without human rights, let alone unions? Paper ballots & light bulbs? What good is minimum wage for Americans whose new career aspirations will involve fries without trans-fats?

There are human beings dying, being tortured, displaced, terrified, burned, disabled EVERY MINUTE in Iraq! This is being funded by our grandchildren. In direct opposition to the will of the voters the DEMS have caved AGAIN! IMHO, they aren't simply spineless, they're collaborators. The MSM is reporting that Iran is plotting against us, so * can ready more troops for more carnage.

I couldn't find the DEMS in 2002. Now I know where they are, but what good are they? I couldn't be more disgusted or disappointed. :thumbsdown:

[OneBlueSky]

5. Washington DC Rules . . . (for both parties) . . .

1. Don't rock the boat -- especially on the big issues.

2. Go along to get along.

3. Protect your corporate sponsors at all costs.

4. Preserve the status quo -- also at all costs.

with very few exceptions, Members of Congress and Senators all go along with these rules . . . it's how Washington works . . .

"Never take sides against the family." . . . Don Vito Corleone