What Have You Done to Stop This War? (by Trey Ellis at HuffPost)

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Trey Ellis
What Have You Done to Stop This War?
Posted July 27, 2007 | 09:31 AM (EST)


Look, I'm a life-long Democrat and much of me would be thrilled to have the Republicans rendered as impotent as the Democrats had been up until the last midterms. I would delight in the knowledge that Karl Rove's master plan to replace two-party rule with a permanent single-party hegemony actually delivered decades and decades of dominance to the Dems. The karmic jiujitsu could have made every day to me feel like Christmas.

But me waking up happy isn't worth one more young soldier losing an arm, his sight, her life. Me waking up happy isn't worth endangering the power of our democracy.

The Titanic that is the Bush presidency is no longer sinking. With 75 percent of all Americans disapproving, the ship has essentially sunk. As Eleanor Clift said on The McLaughlin Group last week, the question is not will the Republicans abandon ship and help the Democrats extricate us from Bush's war, but when.

The Bush presidency is turning out to be not only the Katrina of America's image abroad, the Katrina of the mightiest military the world has ever known, the Katrina of Iraq, the Katrina of Katrina, but now the Katrina of the Republican party itself.

Loyalty, in general, is a wonderful thing and much of the Republicans' recent successes stem from their ability to coalesce and remain so. Clinton's popularity was twice as high as Bush's when so many Democrats pulled out the long knives during the Lewinsky scandal.

The Republicans running for president don't vote in Congress so don't matter. Every day that they pander to the ever-diminishing pool of Bush loyalists and war fans is another day that they relegate their candidacies to irrelevance. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/trey-ellis/what-have-you-done-to-sto_b_58078.html