Received this email which reads in part:
"Republicans apparently think it's acceptable to continue pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the war in Iraq. They think it's acceptable to ignore the needs and priorities of our people here at home on dozens of vital domestic issues!
"But it's not acceptable to this Senator.
"If you agree with me - if you want to end the GOP's distorted priorities and get America back on track - help elect a Democratic Senate that will do it. Make a donation of $10, $20, $50 or $100 to the Committee for a Democratic Majority today"
Dear Senator Kennedy,
Your party was swept back into the majority in the Congress in 2006 on the promise to END THE WAR. A year later, your party has done nothing, and now there is news that another bag of war money is going to be approved with no strings attached, supposedly to pay for pet domestic projects.
Tell me, Senator, why should I send you a dollar? Your leading candidates for President do not promise an end to the War. They make vague promises of drawing down, by some number, at some point. Your leadership is hand in hand with the War Criminal-in-Chief in continuing this nightmare. The progressive base is ready to jump ship, really ready, and I'm betting a third party will emerge in the next year or so.
Disappointment is not the word I have for DC Democrats. Disgust doesn't go far enough. Your party's leadership is puke. And where are you, Senator? Where are you? Why are you letting traitors like Reid and Pelosi sell out this nation and this world? Why aren't you leading a real, credible well-announced opposition NOW instead of writing pathetic emails asking for money for someday's solution? Where is the revolt of REAL progressive democrats NOW? There is none. There is cowardice, raw great pathetic cowardice.
I will not send you a penny. You are a shame to your family's tradition. How many more soldiers and Iraqi citizens must die before you wake up to your own soft, sorry, moral blubber?
Wake up, Senator. This country's population is far ahead of you in DC in wanting the war OVER and the poor and vulnerable cared for. It will happen, whether the Democratic Party leads the way, or is swept aside with their bedmates in the other party.
Peace NOW,
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Can't wait to see if there's an answer.
"Oh, that. Well, since it's for you, Ray, we'll keep our promises. But it'll all depend on your 10 dollar contribution, so kindly forward it to..."
hahahah...yah, I'm holding my breath...
wanna see responses? I posted this at the Democratic Underground:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... id=3819421 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3819421&mesg_id=3819421)
got their panties all a-twist :twisted:
:lol: ---- sic 'em cen..... Ya gotta know they certainly won't respond, but ah, perchance to dream------------ sal
I don't care if I get a response in writing. I want one in VOTES, in campaigning HARD AND THROUGH CHRISTMAS AND BEYOND for the War to END. Really simple. We hire them through elections to do what we want done. They are our employees. Every 2, 4 or 6 years they can get fired. They are as good as how satisfied we are.
Very few of us are satisfied right now and for awhile. None of them are immune to being fired, just like none of us working joes and josephines are. They forget that and expect to be re-elected. Now the Democrats are assuming we are stuck with the lot of them.
Let me tell you. Times change. Rome fell. The French Empire fell. The Nazi 1000 year reign was over in about a dozen years. Emipires and democracies alike come and go. That's the story of human history.
Reid/Pelosi and the rest of the leadership and their dogs can bite my shine metal ass. As for Kennedy and the more progressive bunch, I do not see balls on many of them either, so to speak. No politician gets my loyalty simply for a party affiliation or a family name. It just doesn't work that way. They have to learn this, over and over it seems.
I hate it the way things have been going, but I'm sure as hell not going to sit back quiet about it.
Cen, that was a great post and a great letter/email you sent out. I wasn't sure you had it in you. I haven't seen anything worthwhile out of that bloated gassbag (EK) in a long time. The name means nothing to me.
Very true how you pointed out that the demos were voted in to stop the war, among other things, and we see they are keeping on funding the damn thing. You know this latest funding bill is going to pass. They made a big performance out of putting deadlines into other funding bills and then they cowered in mock fear when Bush vetoed them. Now they are trying to sell us a bill of goods saying that the need for $11B in various "good" projects justifies $70B for the immoral war that they swore they would bring to a swift end. Now we see how moral they really are.
Also true that none of the leading demo candidates have pledged to pull out ALL troops if elected. Sounds to me like they have sold out to the powers that be which want the war continued.
As you pointed out, the likelyhood of a third party taking away the power previously enjoyed by the big 2, is very high. I expect the demos and repubs to slowly fade away. It won't happen right away and they will use all their power to stop it. But it will happen unless they wake up and listen to the people who are their real bosses.
Keep up the good posts!
yah, Stoney, thanks, I think...not a happy thing, any of this, and I am simply pissed off...I don't know that a 3rd party will emerge or what will happen thereafter. Little faith in any of it. Just anger in my heart, and ugliness in what I see when I look at the day's headlines.
I don't think I'm alone in feeling betrayed but a lot of people just don't want to deal with it. They still want to believe. I wanted to believe because I thought I had no choice.
It was this latest war funding bill that blew it for me, bro. The mask is off, the Dems have no coherence, no plan, no real optimism left in their bones. Fuck it pisses me off. It's like they're saying we tried and tried and tried and now that's it. We'll rely on winning the White House and taking care of this then. In the meantime, we'll beg for a few coins as alms.
There is no excuse for this capitulation. None. I think maybe 2008 is going to mark desparate times but in truth anyone who can claim to know what's going to happen is a fool.
Anger, Stoney. Raw, wordless anger, no matter how much I write or type. Just anger.
I think what they are counting on is the fact that no matter how betrayed the public and their supporters feel, they will decide in the end they have no other choice and will back whoever is the demo candidate. It comes down to the "lesser of the evils" argument. If they can show they are a tiny, insignificant bit less evil than the repubs, then you and others will back them. You might be holding your nose when you pull the voting lever but you will be voting D once again.
At the end of the day, the demos are in favor of supporting the Iraq war just as the repubs are. The only difference is the repubs, most of them, are openly in favor of it. The demos do this little act, a song and dance in which they pretend to be totally against the war. After the act is over, they sigh in defeat and give the scumbag Bush everything he asked for with no strings attached. They figure the acting and posturing is enough to con people like yourself into thinking that they really tried when in fact they didn't try at all.
It's like going to the sleazy car lot and the scumbag salesman asks you if you want the red model or the blue one. No matter which you pick, you are screwed. You could go across the street but you've always bought from the scumbags so you will pick the blue model even though you know it will only take you to war and to the poorhouse.
"But it's a little bit less crappy than the red one" cried the sucker.
Across the street, the green model waits for the suckers to smarten up. It may be a long long time. I'm voting green or libertarian I don't care if they win or not. I'm NOT voting for the war. What about the rest of you? A vote for D or R is a vote for war.
My highest priority is to push an end to the War. The longer it goes on, the worse effect it has, and worse things that can come of it. I don't care what combination of lawmakers ends it, just so long as they do. I just know we are all in terrible danger ongoing from what's going on half a world away. The chickens always come home to roost. I wrote to Kennedy what I did because he is showing no leadership and his party is capitulating. It was not a letter I wanted to write, but it had to happen.
Sadly, very few get into politics and stay in politics to do what is right.
They stay in politics because it is a job with a fucking obscene set of perks and ego satisfaction.