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Edited on Mon Aug-13-07 08:27 PM by galloglas
Edit: dodgy spelling
After the Democrats won (tenuous) control of both Houses of Congress, they've done damned little to forward this nation. After the agenda of the first 100 hours, it has been little different than "business as usual under the Republicans". Why is this so?
If they are asked, they often say (while pretending to believe it) that a) "we're just not strong enough to do that now" or b)"the people we represent do not want extreme measures like (well-deserved) impeachment".
Both reasons are patently absurd for the following reasons. In the case of a)"we're just not strong enough to do that now", it presumes that We the People elected these Democrats solely to accomplish those things that they feel they have the power to do.
That is BS (Busch- wah)! We elected them to *do the right thing*, whether or **not** they succeed in accomplishing that! It is their job (we gave it to them, no?) to do that which best protects the Constitution and, secondly, do that which best serves their electorate.
And the Democrats have not stood up to the test! The failure to institute impeachment proceedings against the most egregious group of corporate gangsters ever to invade Capitol Hill, will continue to do irreparable harm to our Constitution and to those of us who rely on it for protection from nefarious influences.
As far as serving the interests of their electorate, this Democratic Congress has been an abject failure. Are we out of Viet Nam? (I mean Iraqi-Nam?) NO! Did we roll back the unnecessary tax cuts passed out by George Bush in an orgy of sycophantic supplication in 2001? NO! Did we act to cool it on global warming ? NO!
So who does this Democratic Congress think that the electorate consists of? If it is the citizens who cast their votes for the Democrats, they are definitely not listening to the citizens nor working in their interest.
On the other hand, perhaps these Democrats are of the stripe that consider "the electorate" in terms of dollars cast at them, rather than in terms of votes cast for them. If so, they are *definitely* acting in the interests of their true masters, their corporate owners.
I would suggest that the only way to re-educate these misguided Democrats about who is the "public" and who is the "public servant" is to get their attention (and obviously emails and letters don't work).
The proposed general strike is exactly the kind of public "bitch slap" that the deluded, or deceiving, Democrats in Congress need to wake them up.
If it does not wake them up, then we should understand what that means to us, We the People. That these Democrats might as well be dead to us, as they must consider We the People to be dead to them. Further, that we have simply chosen the lesser of two evils (Dem over GOP) in a case where we are still forced to choose an evil option.
And if it does not wake them up, it should damned well wake us up!! If we are electing Democrats who will no more do our will than the Republicans, what is the point? We obviously need additional choices, demand additional choices, and we will find additional sources. And that is the handwriting on the wall.
But perhaps we should give these Democrats the benefit of delusion, for the moment, and by virtue of the (truly virtuous) General Strike, knock some sense into their heads.
Then, if they do not see that in a democracy (from which the Democrats draw their name) the power flows from the bottom up, not the top down, nor through a corporate lobbyist, we should assume that the deluded are not deluded but devious.
At that moment we should all march up the steps of Congress, grab the appropriate members by their appropriate members, and chuck the bastards back down the steps and boot up Democracy Redux.
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