Dems Must Do What's Right, Not What's Safe

[rndmprsn]

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0927-26.htm

...What troubles me is the question raised by friends around the country, "Where are the Democratic leaders in Congress when the cronyism and incompetence of this administration are out there for all to see?"

With Katrina exposing the payoffs through no-bid contracts to contributors to President Bush and his pal Haley Barbour, not to mention the total, if not criminal, negligence of the administration and the racism inherent in the response to Katrina, where is the leader of the Democrats? Where is the Democratic plan, the vision? Are we forever stuck with posturing senators such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and others who are best described as "careful" because they want to be president? Clinton moving right, Biden moving to left of right, Kerry just moving.

With 45 million people without health care, is it not possible to lay out a Democratic demand for a single-payer universal health care plan, making health care a national right?

Someone take the lead. Please.

This is a moment like no other. We can't afford Katrina relief while fighting in Iraq and we shouldn't be there anyway. We are not prepared for another disaster and everyone knows we must raise taxes to pay the bills. Everyone except George Bush. Who will challenge him with the truth?

[bonito]

1. Our soldiers are dieing

and getting maimed, we are sending them over there to kill for us, they have families. There putting there lives on the line. they know the meaning of honor. Who is going to make a stand to protect them from these greedy, lying bastards in the white house?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. You can put that in the "fat chance" file.

On the very rare instances when politicians of any stripe "do what's right" it is usually only when they are forced into by the people or when the polls tell their handlers that it will serve their ambitions to do so.