Standing Up To This Regime Is The First Duty Of A Patriot & Litmus Test For Dems Seeking Our Support

[kpete]

Because I just don’t get it
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2007-08-15 14:55. Activism
This post by Scarecrow at firedoglake ends with these three ringing paragraphs:

There have been nearly 3700 US soldiers killed in Iraq, a war Bush/Cheney lied us into against a country that posed zero threat to America. The war’s direct economic costs now approach $500 billion and will eventually exceed a trillion dollars. But there are even greater opportunity costs that are yet to be counted, in neglected investments, health care not provided, education never completed, teachers and police not hired, schools and bridges left unrepaired, and on and on. In the last six years, according to New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, there were over 100,000 people murdered in America’s cities, including the three kids just gunned down in Newark.

We hardly talk about these other costs of having Bush as Commander in Chief, because we are saddled with a President whose choice of friends/advisers and whose disastrous policy choices require that we focus on killing Iraqis instead of saving our own country. Now we’re told he will veto every budget bill that provides “too much” money for everything from children’s health to worker protection and block every piece of legislation that tries to address energy dependence, global warming, or the absence of universal health care. Nothing critical that needs to be done can or will get done as long as this crowd occupies the White House. Nothing.

Rove is leaving, but the core problem America faces still sits in the White House, smug in the belief he and Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales are accountable to no one and no law. Faced with such unprecedented Presidential misconduct, tell me again why starting impeachment proceedings, whatever the outcome, does not send the right signal to them and to our own future, and why we should not face this White House every day of its remaining term with the threat of removal. Because I just don’t get it, no matter how weak the Democrats often seem. Standing up to this regime is the first duty of a patriot and the litmus test for any Democrat seeking our continued support.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/15/unfit-for-commander-in-chief/

[groovedaddy]

1. Hey, evidently political careers are more important

than things like truth, integrity, obeying the law, etc.

[TechBear_Seattle]

4. Duh

You must be new to politics. :hi:

[opihimoimoi]

2. K&R.. Stand UP and FIGHT....Remove this Cancer from our Land..

[Blackhatjack]

3. Which is exactly what John Edwards has been saying,..and why Repubs fear him

You cannot negotiate with them. You have to stand up to them and beat them.