Timid Democrats Fail To Pin Blame on Bush

[jbfam4]

Timid Democrats Fail
To Pin Blame on Bush

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=13116&ic=Nicholas+Von+Hoffman

By: Nicholas von Hoffman
Date: 7/31/2006
Page: 4

Once again, there are the D’s out in the pasture with no horns and no balls. They had it done to them two years ago, when they and their candidate, John Kerry, allowed themselves to be ruined by the Swift Boat Veterans nonsense. How in Sam Hill does a national political party which led the United States into four major wars in the last century get itself tabbed again and again by its opponents as the cut-and-run party, the party of woofters, poofters and wankers?



This time around, their backing and filling has left them open to getting tabbed as the cut-and-run, powder-puff party that’s never quite for or against the war and the war’s conduct. If the Democrats fail to capitalize on the war issue, it will be an impressive accomplishment.

By Election Day, it will have taken the Bush administration longer to fail to win in Iraq than it took the United States to defeat Adolf Hitler. An overused military is seeing more of its soldiers and marines put on trial for killing Iraqis than Iraqis and/or terrorists have been put on trial for killing Americans. Just lately, the home-front public is learning that some American deaths have come intentionally at the hands of the Iraqi soldiers whom we have armed and trained.


If the D’s can’t make political capital out of this, how realistic are their hopes for this November? As things are shaping up, while the Democrats writhe and wriggle trying to get out from under the cut-and-run label, the Republicans will be doing a sneak and run out of Iraq and calling it victory.

[acmavm]

1. The dems feel comfortable because we aren't in the streets

voicing our outrage. So therefore they feel they can go along and make no waves, no protests, put up no fight.

The are complacent because the American people are in a coma.

[Totallybushed]

3. I think you may be right.

I don't take to the streets, myself, but I write or e-mail or phone my congressman or one of my senators every day about an issue of interest to me. Not always the same one. I also e-mail a copy to the white house and to cheney's office of whatever I sent. Not that I expect that to do any good, but we do what we can.

Voice your outrage. It's the only way to get change.

[blm]

2. Someone send Hoffman a link to MediaMatters - Does anyone really

have to ask How and Why anymore now that it has been established that the GOP has been in control of most broadcast media AND most voting machines?

[LisaM]

4. Blame Bush? How about our friends and neighbors

who installed him? I blame Bush for taking on a job he's clearly incapable of doing (it would be like me deciding to do brain surgery with no training) but there are plenty of people behind the scenes who bear responsibility for this too.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. How do they get tabbed as the cut-and-run, powder-puff party? By idiots

like the author constantly declaring that they have been so 'tabbed'!! The American public isn't that stupid...they know that Murtha and some are not 'cutting and running'; that it's GOP bull!

[ShortnFiery]

6. How about we vote out these gutless wonders? I'm there. :-) eom