The September Sellout

[arendt]

The September Sellout
by arendt

"In DC, people won't just stab you in the back; they'll stab you in the front." - anon.

September 2007 is something I won't be "moving on" from, ever. That was the month that the the 75% of Americans who wanted the war to end and the Constitution to be restored were completely and shamelessly sold out by the corrupt leadership of the Democratic Party. And it wasn't just four god-awful votes. It was their entire attitude. The votes were:

1. No time off for the troops.
2. No restoration of Habeus Corpus.
3. Censure of MoveOn.
4. The Liberman-Kyl finger in the face.

And, what is the response of the official Democratic Party and the "leading" (read corporate) Democratic candidates? Business as usual. Nothing to see here, folks. Move On. Their cravenness was so complete, that they didn't even bother to force the GOP to actually filibuster on Habeus Corpus. They just did the "gentlemanly" thing and conceded defeat without forcing the issue. They could have had a file full of opposition research video of the GOP exposing their true autocratic selves. But, naah, they took a pass on that.

Six months ago, the Dem leadership first showed their willingness to kick the can down the road for Bush on Iraq and play along with him by not pressing him. Here's a list of stuff that the so-called leadership did to us, not six months ago:

DLC Dems - Driving Bush's Getaway Car
Posted by arendt in General Discussion: Politics
Sat Jun 02nd 2007, 07:16 PM

I refuse to "get over" the serial betrayal of the electoral mandate by the DLC wing of the Democratic Party. I have had it with them making secret, fast-track trade deals with Bush. I have had it with their reluctance to simply indict Alberto Gonzalez, who is already convicted on the basis of the sworn testimony of James Comey. And, the absolute last straw was the vote to fund the Iraq War with no conditions. These are not minor things. The last two items are high crimes, and the refusal to act on them is an indication of more than mere political cowardice. It is an indication of an inside job. The location of "inside" being the Democratic Party; and the perpetrators of the inside job being the DLC.

Are any of these issues still alive? Or are they just more fait accomplis that we are supposed to "get over"? Gonzales quit. But will he ever be prosecuted for his crimes? Not in the current environment. That would be "partisan". That would "turn off the voters". That would take away usurped power that the DLC is just salivating over.

Then there is the "small" matter of health care. September was also the month that Hillary floated her healthcare idea. And guess what? It is more corporate control. Mandatory purchase of corporate insurance. Obama and Edwards immediately got into a contest about who had this "great" idea first. Progressive ideas? What progressive ideas?

How much evidence does anyone need? The corporate Democrats have just pulled their own "Night of the Long Knives". For the historically challenged, this was the night when Hitler, having become Chancellor, had the leadership of the SA (the infamous brownshirts - street thugs) butchered en masse by the army. That was his payback to the SA for them doing his dirty work. Afterwords, he excused himself by saying that the SA was riddled with homosexuality. Yeah - that didn't stop him from using the SA to gain power. And that is exactly how the corporate Dems view the progressives in the party. Their attitude is: thanks for getting us elected in 2006, now we are through with you dirty hippies and your unpatriotic attitude.

And, now that all that is settled, its time to vote another $200 Billion for the Forever War, and to join the Two Minute Hate against the latest bogeyman, A..nejad. You can be rest assured that we will continue to be in Iraq for at least another two years, and perhaps another six years - if you believe the statements of the "leading" Democratic candidates last night.

One last straw for those with strong backs. Joe Lieberman has re-registered as a Democrat. The Democratic leadership never took away his seniority. There isn't a hot enough corner in hell for Joe Lieberman.

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Wake up progressives, Krystallnacht is coming. The next censure vote will have teeth. Its time for open revolt INSIDE the Democratic Party. The leadership just declared war on us. The longer we wait, the less our chances of stopping the slide to war with Iran. Can the progressives bring the Congress to a halt by themselves? Any parliamentarians here with ideas?

[meegbear]

1. Krystallnacht!?!?!?

[arendt]

2. This is all you've got to say? Don't waste my time. n/t

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[arendt]

5. I couldn't be happier. Goodbye. n/t

[arendt]

3. I guess you missed the meme "Liberals are the new Jews". That happens to the unaware. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

9. Oh, we're very aware that LIBERALS are not only "The 30s Jews" but labeled 21st century TERRORISTS

:eyes: I despise the DLC Borg and have not yet been assimilated into "the centrist" cesspool of mediocrity. :thumbsdown:

[jmp]

6. This thread started out with promise ...

Then drove right off a cliff.

[arendt]

12. Care to explain why? Its certainly impossible to guess what you are referring to. n/t

[arendt]

7. Unfortunately, time to go to work. See you all, much later. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

8. "Its time for open revolt INSIDE the Democratic Party."

IMO, the only thing that will detach the DLC's tentacles from our beloved Democratic Party may be *the truth.* When, unlike countless times before, the liberals write-in democratic candidates that haven't been vetted as Corporate enablers.

When the DLC led Democratic Party has their political a**es handed to them in 2008, THEN, just maybe "THE PARTY" will kick the DLCers to the curb and re-embrace the liberal values that ONCE MADE The Democratic Party great.

Until they learn "the hard way" and HIT BOTTOM, none of us has the power to stop the DLC BORG from RULING our party. :(



Hey DLC and HRC ... plus Billary = Good luck with that corporation's rule and centrism is every DAMN thing campaign. I'll see ya when you come back HOME, i.e., embrace democratic, for the people before corporations - VALUES. :hi:

[FreeStateDemocrat]

10. "And I will see all of you on the barricades!”; RFK Jr. It's going to happen shortly

after Hillary's coronation and she takes her hard turn to the right that shuns the core beliefs of our party.

[ShortnFiery]

11. We live in interesting times FSD. I thought that her hawkish support of the Kyle-Lieberman Bill

would seal her fate? :shrug: But the centrist kool-aide is too tempting ... it's the one with the sweet deluded whisper that we can again party like it's 1995. :eyes:

Newsflash: There's no turning back!

[CreekDog]

27. We are not "1930's Jews", c'mon Arendt asked you to back up your words and you didn't

I think you ought to just take them back as they were both unthinking and offensive.

Perhaps you could ask a Holocaust survivor to compare their experiences as a Jew at that time to your experience as a liberal.

Much daylight between the two experiences I imagine.

[2rth2pwr]

13. I will add one to your list. How can the Senate much less Congress

pass a bill for withdrawal with a date certain, when none of the top 3 candidates can make any promises of leaving by 2013?

[arendt]

14. Front page kick. n/t

[dugggy]

15. You spoke the BLUNT truth and that hurts

because it is sharp as nails.

[bread_and_roses]

16. It seems increasingly obvious to me that they want the "unitary executive" power for themselves.

What else are we to make of their behaviour? Cowardice alone, although never to be discounted with this crew, does not seem to me to be a sufficient explanation. Surely they see the poll numbers on approval of Congress. They are acting in direct contradiction to the wave that took them into the majority. They have "the goods" a-plenty on the entire Junta, and refuse to act on them. And if nothing else, that they are not using the excesses of the Rs over the past six years to demand public financing of elections - that, more than almost anything, proves where their allegiances and loyalties lie - and it is not with the populace.

I have been aghast at the approval here of the censure of MoveOn. Who next? And what after censure?

[bonito]

17. K&R for a well grounded perspective

[snappyturtle]

18. K&R Excellent. Concise, hard hitting and poignant. The awful thing I

have to say is that I believe you are correct.

I believe it's imperative that all liked minded people work to halt the Congress but I haven't an iota of an idea of how to bring that about. I wish we had heeded your remarks from June because I think we may be too late but we must try regardless.

[polichick]

19. I think it's safe to say...

We've all been had!

[ljm2002]

20. Thank you for this post...

...it really sums up my own disgust with the current situation, although you express it more eloquently -- and in a more informed way -- than I ever could.

I don't think these yahoos realize how white hot the anger is right now. I think they are about to find out.

Actually I am wondering if I can vote for any of the top three, due to the issues that you bring up. Up until this point I was still thinking, well, we still need to stop the Republicans. But we did our part in 2006, we got our Dems in office and took over both houses of Congress, and ... xyzzy. Nothing happened.

Piss on them.

[arendt]

21. "The stab in the front"

Every time some bunch of right wing idiots loses a war they started, they always try to blame the peaceniks and lefties for some mythical "stab in the back".

So, I think its time the left returned the favor. I think we ought to say we lost America's democracy because of this blatant , public "stab in the front" by the right wing, the corporate wing, of the Democratic Party. The wing that counsels "patience", and pledes "lack of votes", and is every so polite to an oppositon which rabbit punches them any time it pleases. This wing is not so cowardly when it comes to trampling on the people that got them elected and the issues that they ran pretending to champion.

What do you call such a blatant bunch of hypocrites? Words fail me. But anger does not.

arendt

[tomp]

23. i call them "complicit".

the major myth of american politics is that we have two parties when, in fact, we have one. the role of the dems has always been to pretend to be our friend and then sell us out at crucial moments. sure, a bone here and there, because that's how the game is played. it's always about just-enough-for-the-next-vote. and in the end someone always says, "but we have to vote dem for the scotus". it's all so predictable, and you have to admit, very well played.

[arendt]

24. Well-played but getting blatant. 75% people want peace; 75% Congress wants war. n/t

[tomp]

26. and so which party should they vote for if they don't want war?

in the end it will come down to whom you can pull away from the dems on election day. in my view, it is the only way to send the right message but millions are more afraid of republicans than of democrats. the scotus thing is the trump card. however, when i see gore vote for scalia only to have scalia oust gore i have to wonder about the dems and scotus anyway.

[MetalCanuck]

22. To solve the problem all you have to do is....

NOT vote for the people the media tells you its ok to vote for.

[LWolf]

25. Good thread.

I'd recommend it if I could. Instead, I'll give it a :kick:.

This is why I've repeatedly stated that I will not vote for a centrist/corporate Democrat. For any office.

It's the best service I can give to the Democratic Party in this time of civil war within the party.