Dear Democrats-- America is wondering when enough is enough

[omega minimo]

Dear Democrats,

Today is the traditional First Monday in October. The new Chief Justice was installed, shortly after the next Supreme Court nominee was announced. The President, who was installed after the Supreme Court stopped the 2000 Florida vote count, nominated his own attorney to the Court.

The response from Democratic leaders seemed as lukewarm and noncommittal as the testimony of the first Bush SCOTUS nominee-- and possibly the second.

The real world that Americans live in includes a precarious economy where one can't get a job without experience and can't get experience without a job-- that is, when there is a job to be had.

Yet John Roberts was made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with a minimal 2 years of judicial experience. The judicial record of the next SCOTUS nominee amounts to none. With Roberts, the nominee's lack of judicial decisions and evasive behavior left the Democrat's with "a roll of the dice." With the President's attorney-- well, she's the President's attorney. Her reported qualification is that she is an excellent corporate lawyer.

Americans are left to guess the meaning and the motivations behind all the Democratic niceties-- with concern that this nomination process will be another case of "going through the motions." Some would like to believe that you are very clever and have a strategy in mind. Some think we need a George Galloway under the Dome to give you all a reality check.

You congregate in marbled halls and hold forth from the TV screens. You make the rounds and deliver your lines and reinforce the deepening cynicism of Americans who believe that you do not represent them.

The Republican Majority Leaders in both the House and Senate are under investigation-- one was indicted last week. The head of FEMA was removed in disgrace after the unspeakably horrific (lack of) Katrina response. The same corporation with ties to the White House received no bid contracts in New Orleans and in Iraq-- where the war based on lies continues to bring death and destruction, rather than democracy. The word "cronyism" is on everyone's lips. Americans are convinced that corporate cronyism runs both Houses and both Parties of the Congress.

In response to the SCOTUS nomination, at least one of the Democratic leaders could have stepped forward and said something of substance. The American people see a corporate President appointed by the highest court in the land appointing his corporate lawyer to that Court. This amidst an ever-shifting shooting gallery of White House and Republican scandal that no one can keep up with. Maybe somebody should?

Do you hear the People slipping away, turning away? Today would have been an excellent opportunity for you to prove your relevance.

:patriot:

[whistle]

1. I have no party any more, I'm registering as an independent

[omega minimo]

2. Dude, where's my country?

It's sad.

[whistle]

13. It's been taken over by rogues, charlatans and criminals disguised as

...wholesome, family oriented business people and professionals, but they are driven by avariciousness, jealousy, bigotry, pride and vanity.

[omega minimo]

16. Ummmm

The Anti-Christ? :evilfrown:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. the greens are looking better and better any longer

and this is waht we need to wake these fuckers up, a third party... it has happened before and I fear it will need to happen again

[omega minimo]

5. You're right, I'm left, they're gone

What do we do when the Party leaves us?

[MisterP]

4. * has as much political capital as the People--and their representatives

give him; he should be more bankrupt than his own policies

[omega minimo]

6. The Clothes Have No Emperor

and the Democrats know it.

[omega minimo]

7. So be it

:hi:

[Toots]

8. "There is hardly any difference between the two parties"

If I said who that quote is from I might get banned because it is from the one whose name can not be spoken. :shrug:

[omega minimo]

9. Jello Biafra?

also said, "Become the Media"

:bounce:

[mattclearing]

10. There is a one whose name cannot be spoken?

Who, Bev Harris? :P

[omega minimo]

11. You mean my neighbor and my co-worker and my florist?

:evilgrin:

[omega minimo]

12. Can't be a secret that JQ Public sees both parties as corporate-owned?

Can it?

This HAS to be addressed if Dems ever want to gain power.

:patriot:

[Generator]

15. Ralph Nader

On Democracy Now this morning. Agreed with everything he said. Yeah, he was a narcissistic prick last year, but damn he has their number.

As I said to someone who got all huffy here about: those extremists that always threaten to leave the Democratic party. I'm not leaving, they left me. I haven't changed. I'm still a Democrat. That D by my name still stands for the same things it did the first time I ever voted, in 1980.

I think those that think a D behind their names makes them one ought to come clean and change it to an "A."

And you can guess what that stands for.

[LittleClarkie]

14. America could give a flying fuck unless something happens to

make them ALL sit up and take notice. Like maybe a draft. Like maybe even higher gas prices.

Dems may be wondering at their leaders, but I reckon Americans as a whole can't see past the end of this week.

[omega minimo]

17. I hear that LC, and recent events have shown me how true (Katrina)

the cocooning aspect is....

However, IMHO the 'Merican people know what's going on. They know, they know the stuff that some DUers think is still radical or too :tinfoilhat:. They KNOW.

That's why I questioned the smooth, relaxed pretense of the Congressional Dem talking heads last night-- from out in the Real World, the nom. of his own lawyer given the shite Bushco. is in right now just STINKS. "Normal" Americans don't need to search the Internets and marry the cable TeeVee to read the writing on the wall.

Dems need to speak to that.