How far would the Senate follow George W Bush ?

[kentuck]

Not just the Republicans, but also the Democrats? As Senator Mark dayton noted today, it is time to call them on their lies. It's dangerous.

First of all, they lied about their reasons for going to war. Then they lied about how the oil revenues would pay for the war. And today we know there were no WMDs. And Bush is ready to ask for $80 billion more for his little war in Iraq. $80 fucking billion more! And hte oil revenues were going to pay for the war? They are liars, simple and plain.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Right over the edge of the cliff...like good lemmings....

[Dark]

2. The democrats might not go that far. I think they're growing a pair.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6862922/

“I don’t like impugning anyone’s integrity, but I really don’t like being lied to,” Dayton said. “Repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally.”

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“My vote against this nominee is my statement that this administration’s lies must stop now,” Dayton said in opposing Rice’s nomination on the Senate floor.

Rice is not directly responsible for intelligence failures before the Iraq war that overestimated Saddam’s nuclear capability, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. “But she is responsible for her own distortions and exaggerations of the intelligence which was provided to her,” Levin said.

“Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people,” Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said.

I couldn't believe it at first. The DEMOCRATS doing something besides backing down.

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. They already gave him unconstitutional power to declare war

and have funded and supported his insanity. As a group they have consistently suppressed evidence of administration scandals, lies, and criminal deeds, thus further compromising their own integrity.

I wonder how near the truth RFK Jr was when he estimated that 90% of REpubs and 75% of Dems (I assume he means in Congress) are corrupt:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2999611
If he is anywhere near the true number, then the only thing that will stop them in their insane support of the blivet** is their own short-term self-interest. IF they think they have a better chance for money, perks, and reelection if they give the country another push toward the cliff, they'll do it.

So we need to show them that integrity like Boxer's, Dayton's and Conyers' pays better than wallowing in the blivet**'s corruption. AND ASAP get them the hell out of office and replaced with decent, competent people who will work to turn this country around.

[TankLV]

4. Not just the senate - but the entire congress.

He could sodimise little boys in the middle of the street and they would find some not terribly bad but neutral adjectives to describe what he had done, while voting to give him a medal.

And lie-berman and the other repukes would remark how much the exceptionally cute little rascals seemed to enjoy all the "attention".