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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Taro who wrote (17964)	11/19/2007 3:21:28 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224858

Hillaryland must be concerned about this >They Could Lose It All in 2008! Democrats in Future Shock By DAVE LINDORFF For Congressional Democrats, the train has already left the station--and they're not on board. A year after the election that gave them control of both houses of Congress, they are exposed as a feckless bunch of frauds posing as an opposition. As long ago as last January, when the US death toll in Iraq was almost 1000 lower, and the civilian death toll in Iraq was over a hundred thousand lower, they could have brought an end to the conflict by simply refusing to approve any more money for the war. Instead, they approved administration requests for several hundred billion dollars for expanding the number of troops from 140,000 to a current level of nearly 173,000-a post- invasion record. They could have initiated impeachment hearings against the president, the vice president, or against both. Instead, the House leadership threatened anyone who might file impeachment bills with various punishments, reportedly ranging from loss of committee chairmanships to loss of access to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee funding. In the perverse "logic" of Democratic Party leaders, this do-nothing strategy was designed to bring Democrats a historic victory in 2008, when American voters would supposedly hand Democrats the presidency and healthy majorities in both houses of Congress. But the American public is not that stupid. With Bush and Cheney leaving, they won't buy a campaign based on running against them. Polls are showing that the majority of Americans are at least as disgusted at Democrats in Congress as they are with the Republicans-maybe more so. Since last November, public approval of the new Democratic-led Congress has fallen from a post- election high of 65 percent to a current level of about 20 percent, depending on the poll. That's lower than President Bush's record low approval rating of 24 percent. The dire situation facing Democrats is masked currently by the fake "excitement" being generated by all the corporate media coverage of the so-called "race" for the Democratic presidential nomination-coverage that is artificially skewed towards just two or perhaps three of the candidates, HILLARY Clinton, Barack OBAMA and John Edwards. This coverage creates the illusion of some kind of groundswell of public excitement about the Democratic candidates. In fact none of them fares particularly well against Republican candidates. Instead, the so-called "leading" Democrats are all neck-and-neck with their potential Republican opponents. The reason for this disconnect from reality is that while Democratic voters, as always, can be expected to go dutifully to the polls next November and cast their votes for whatever compromised and weak candidate their party puts up to run, the independent vote which put Democrats over the top in the 2006 off-year congressional elections is gone.