COWARDLY DEMS LET GORE DO DIRTY WORK

[babylonsister]

COWARDLY DEMS LET GORE DO DIRTY WORK
By Bill Gallagher

DETROIT -- The Democrats make me sick. They weasel and twist, ignoring the truth and political wisdom as their feeble leadership dodges and ducks critical issues. They typically fail to define what they are or stand for anything that includes political risks.

The congressional leaders and the presidential candidates in general cling to safe positions, relying on expensive consultants and media advisers to hinge their support to a nebulous centrist coalition and fuzzy platitudes. Their aversion to principle and clear purpose defines a party so intent on regaining power by avoiding risk that they are risking failure.

When in doubt, they choose to be cautious, often timid, and afraid to attack President George W. Bush as the criminal he is, the worst president in history, richly deserving impeachment and prosecution. They are so gutless that former attorney general Alberto Gonzales is getting away with serial perjury for lying about torture and illegal surveillance in testimony before congressional committees.

Instead of calling the crimes what they are and standing up for the Constitution, Democratic congressional leaders are working with the administration to craft legislation aimed at destroying the Fourth Amendment and providing immunity to telecommunications companies that helped the government conduct electronic surveillance without court orders.

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Gore showed guts in telling people the inconvenient truth about our excesses and the imperative to change our ways or risk the destruction of the earth. He sought the truth, not popularity. Lessers ridiculed him. Former president George H.W. Bush derisively called him "ozone man." Until recently, George W. Bush's anti-science thugs forbade the Environmental Protection Agency from using the phrase "global warning."

Gore will not seek the Democratic presidential nomination, but the party would be wise to adopt his policies as their own. But that means doing things like taking on the auto industry and coal miners, taxing energy consumption and asking Americans to end their obsession with reckless consumption. That's too risky for most Democratic leaders.

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[Enrique]

1. you found another anti-dem article

that's quite a hobby you folks have, scouring the net for anything negative about the dems and sharing it with us all. :toast:

[babylonsister]

2. If the shoe fits... I prefer not to bury my head in the sand.

Enlighten me how this article is incorrect.

[Enrique]

3. i don't read propaganda

especially when it's screamed at me in capital letters.

[babylonsister]

5. Then how could you possibly be critical? Hint: don't respond if you

don't even know what's in there.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. If ya don't like the Party,

then help CHANGE it, Goddamit.

Thanks, Sister.

I, for one, appreciated that articulate statement of what I feel about the current mob of Stenyites. I'm absolutely convinced that the Dems are to the right of majority opinion in this country. They're allowing a right-wing media to define the turf, with the result that both teams are fighting over the right side of the field. Not just the winning strategy, but our salvation, demands that we get the game onto the left side of the field.

[babylonsister]

9. I'd just be happy if the Dems listened to their constituents; why is that

too much to ask?

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Apparently it is.

Unless you have big bucks, they aren't interested. Us peasants ain't got nowhere else to go, ya know, so as long as they throw us the occasional minimum-wage sop and don't threaten to make flat-earth fundamentalism the state religion, we're supposed to shut up and don't make waves.

[jojo54]

4. No, it's not anti-Dem, it's telling the truth.

I am Democrat, through & through, but I have to agree with this article. Why do you think that Gore isn't going to seek the nomination? Because (IMHO) he's tired of the posturing: to the mighty, to the pressure, and to the almighty dollar sign.

The Democrats in both houses need our voices, now more than ever, just so they keep in mind who they work for, unlike the repukes.

[OneBlueSky]

22. I agree . . . Gore would love to be president, but he's revulsed by the process . . .

you need to follow to get there and loathe to participate in the outrageous sideshow that political campaigns have become . . .

I sure hope that "Draft Gore" movement can get his name on the primary ballot in most, if not all, of the primary states . . . and that they can raise enough cash to do the necessary pre-primary advertising . . .

the article was simply telling the truth -- something sorely lacking in the corporate media . . . telling the truth is not bashing . . . it's telling the truth . . .

[atreides1]

7. Truth Hurts

[Totally Committed]

11. How is it "anti" ANYTHING to tell the truth about it?

If it's the truth, by the very definition of "anti", it can't be labelled as such.

TC

[Enrique]

12. that makes no sense

[Cha]

15. Lay off the beer..ya might see

what's goin' down.

[yurbud]

21. so you want us to be like GOP--mindlessly cheerlead whatever load of shit pols serve us?

[rAVES]

8. OUch my party!!! :*(

[madrchsod]

10. this guy is very good -----from 2004

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/gallagher195.html
Niagara Falls Reporter Opinion


here is one predation from 2004


...."But the man behind the curtain of fascism -- White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, who wrote legal briefs enabling torture and, in effect, declaring the president is a king -- will become Attorney General of the United States."

[depakid]

13. And sure enough

Just like nearly every other appalling appointee.

[Cha]

14. How's that "ozone man" workin' for

ya now, pappybushit? Your Betters gave him The Nobel Peace Prize.

Now I know what pelosi sees in bushit..their shared sense of infallibility. Thank you, Bill Gallagher.

Some of us are not the only ones who see the pussyfootin' of our Dems as detrimental to the healing of our country.

Thanks for posting this, babylonsister.

[tom_paine]

16. I'd like to disagree with this person, but reality will not allow it

This article is spot on. Tragically so.

[Kurovski]

18. Extremely well put. (nt)

[European Socialist]

19. K&R--Will they ever stop being Repuke Lite.

Well, I guess they do when it's minimum wage,SS,or children's health--when 80% of the people are with them. A little risk taking would go a long way.

[yurbud]

20. it is not cowardice that hobbles Dems, it's courting GOP patrons. they want to be...

the COMPETENT war party.

[Hawkowl]

23. The "leadership" is cowardly

Pelosi, Reid, Hoyer, all need to go. We need to recruit progressive candidates in their districts and un-elect them.

[maxkeiser]

24. gore's concerns

go beyound baby sitting Americans - hopefully he won't get sucked into wasting his time trying to bail out US