Tweety to Chaka Fattah (D-PA): "So what? You haven‘t been able to stop it"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Dec. 8

MATTHEWS: So if Congressman Fatah, if the war is to end sooner, if we are to come home sooner than the president would like, it‘s going to have to take the Democrats in Congress to stop this war. Is there any way you can stop it?

REP. CHAKA FATTAH, (D), PENNSYLVANIA: Well, you know, the president and the president‘s party in the majority and they‘re in control. Bush is the power of this plane. It doesn‘t matter what the Democrats say, how unified they may be in saying it. We are in the minority in the House and in the Senate. So in part, the majority party has decided a course of action. It may not be the right course of action. And until they decide that they‘re going down the highway in the wrong direction, and that in order to get to the destination, you‘ve got to go the other way, that they just said we‘re going to stay the course and keep going. Unfortunately, we‘re along for that ride. Now, I opposed this war at the beginning, I oppose it today. I think that...

MATTHEWS: ... but, so what? You haven‘t been able to stop it.

FATTAH: Absolutely. Because when you‘re in the minority, the majority rules, in the House and the Senate. And when President Bush was re-elected, he said he was going to continue to prosecute this war. This war was a bad idea. It‘s costed us $6 billion a month. I‘ve been to Walter Reed to visit these soldiers. One young lady from San Antonio, Texas, lost both her legs, Cassandra O‘Brien(ph). This the reality of the decisions that have been made. And what the Republicans are trying to do is say, “well, if one Democrat said this, one Democrat said that.” It wouldn‘t matter if we were all saying it from the same page book. Until the majority party decides that this course of action needs to change, it‘s not going to change.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10393970/

[SharonAnn]

1. Well said, Rep. Chaka Fattah. Well said!

[MrBenchley]

5. I agree....

We need to take back the House and Senate.

[kentuck]

6. Naw...

We need to discuss who we think will win in 2008.. <sarcasm off>

[babylonsister]

2. The issue remains:

Until the majority party decides that this course of action needs to change, it‘s not going to change.

The majority party needs to find balls and a conscience, for their constituents if not for themselves.

[Straight Shooter]

3. Now it's OUR fault?

Is that the fertilizer meme they're starting to spread? We haven't done enough to stop this war?

Jeebers.

edit: I'm talking about Matthews acting as if we could do more if we just got our act together and operated in concert with one another. What a friggin' idiot.

[Vinca]

4. This was an important point to get across and Democrats might

consider hammering the point home that it really doesn't matter what we think or what plans we might have or not have. It doesn't even matter if we're there most of the time because WE'RE THE MINORITY. That's why people need to vote for Democrats next November so the will of the people can actually make it to the floor of the House and Senate. Until then, Tweety should be drilling the Republicans.