Galloway: Can't we do better than this (miserable non-representative government)?

[Doctor_J]

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So September will come and go and nothing will really change. Gen. David Petraeus comes to town, but the White House political section is writing the report to Congress for him. It will say that things are coming up roses in Iraq. The surge is going swimmingly and progress is astounding. Just need some more time with those 160,000 or 170,000 Americans in the middle, targets really, of a civil war that no one on any side seems to care about ending, especially George W. Bush and his pal Darth Cheney.

Don’t rest your hopes on the Democrats who now allegedly control both houses of Congress.

The White House, as soon as it's watched Congress choke down the so-called Petraeus report and recommendations, will promptly demand that the same Congress vote another surge in the war budget — adding another $50 billion to what’s already been approved.

The Democrats will whine and moan and bloviate and then, like lapdogs, they'll roll over and approve the money, proving that they're even bigger cowards than Bush or Cheney are.

In the end, there’s no difference between Republicans and Democrats, or only subtle superficial differences in their hypocrisies. When it comes to getting their snouts in the trough of public and private and corporate money, they all spring from the same porcine roots.