"Stop Being Characters In Their Story"

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/4/18052/95943

Stop Being Characters in Their Story

by Devilstower
Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 06:24:08 PM PDT
I've done 107 hours in the office so far this week -- it can be done, especially if you start the week with a 43 hour meal and sleep free marathon. This comes at the end of an 18 month project where 80 hour weeks have been common. So if the folks camped out in Congress are tired after working a longer than normal session, they have my sympathy. What they don't have is a pass to sign anything that will get them out of town.

They certainly can't blame exhaustion for this.

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If you should pony up our rights -- our rights -- as the price of buying the favor of a man at 26% in the polls, what do you think you're going to get for that price? Do you really expect the Republicans to shut up about this issue? Do you expect Fox News to run a streamer saying "Democrats fight terrorists!" and Bill O'Reilly to give you a round of applause?

You're not going to get that. If you fold, Fox News is going to call you weak, and your Republican colleagues are going to go home and brag about how they rolled you. Oh, and they're still going to shout to the heavens that terrorists would be running down every main street in America, if they hadn't made the Democrats knuckle under.

Stop worrying about what Republicans are going to say. Stop worrying about what Rush, and Bill, and Sean, and the Fox morning chorus is going to say. Stop being side characters in the epic tragedy that Bush is enacting on our nation and world.

Write your own story. Stop trying to apply political calculus to what should be the easiest decision that's come before the House this year.

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