Is Congress On The Road To Self Destruction?

[Me.]

Like lemmings into the sea?

The people have been very clear. They want Congress to stop the war, stop torture, stop spying on us, stop elections being stolen, stop our jobs from being shipped overseas, stop the overwhelming influence of lobbyists, stop the corruption…

Stop, Stop. Stop. Hurting us.

But they will not listen.

They have all kinds of excuses. Seems they were scared out of their pajamas the last time the FISA bill came up and Trent Lott as good as told them Al Queada was on it’s way to the Capitol that very second. Did you believe him? I didn’t, yet they say they were, enough so that they continued the theft of our rights.

As to the solution, it’s a quandary. I think Howard Dean is on the right track. Rebuilding the party from the ground up. He must be for they sure are gunning for him. Rahm, Jimmy C. even Nancy is trying to do his job. Yesterday she said the Florida delegation would be seated.

I don’t know what is going to happen but the anger is building and yet Congress continues to ignore the very people who they are supposed to represent.

I read an article, on a different subject, where the author was talking about enough being enough. He wrote. ‘A balloon that is inflated to monstrous dimensions can one day burst'

How many breathfuls of fetid air will Congress be able to breathe into that balloon before it bursts? And what do you think will happen then?

[lonestarnot]

1. Stinkkkkkkeeeee!

[Rydz777]

3. Agreed - including the candle. nt

[lonestarnot]

11. Woowee. Good thing I took a second look.

You almost got a snarkie barkie. :hug:

[midnight]

2. I voted for Howard Dean in the primaries. He sure had me listening.

There must be someway to let him get his work done without all these distractions.

[Me.]

4. Case In Point

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2012318

[Me.]

5. Yet Another

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3596358

[H2O Man]

6. I'm not sure

that they are self-destructing. I think that they are submissive. They are, as Mario Cuomo noted on Hardball, attempting to allow the executive branch to have more power than the Founding Fathers intended. They are not honoring the Constitution. In other DU posts, I have compared them to a high school student council, and I think that is quite accurate.

[cali]

7. One of the sillier myths endlessly repeated on DU is that

"the people have been very clear" or that the dems have a clear mandate. No they haven't and no they don't.

[H2O Man]

9. Respectfully disagree.

The 2006 elections were about a number of issues, but none more important than the war in Iraq. While there are a lot of polls that can be twisted and interpreted in silly ways, most indicate what MSNBC reported earlier today -- that the American public wants the war to be brought to an end. That does not mean there is a single, agreed-upon solution being advocated by the public. Rather, the public elects representatives that they trust will find the best way to accomplish the goal, without betraying our nation's security or the troops safety.

Since the democratic-led congress took over, they have funded virtually every increase in funding to foot the bill for the Bush "surge" in the war of occupation. One of the limpest of fables is that being peddled on DU is that the democrats are doing the nation well by submitting to the Bush agenda, and that there is no alternative.

[Me.]

10. I Would Have To Disagree With That

I think the polls are clear in that a majority want us out of Iraq, further, though it has been barely reported, corruption was a big factor in the change of majorities and a majority holds the opinion that the country is heading in the wrong direction.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. They've made themselves irrelevant.

They've willfully abandoned many of their constitutional prerogatives by "playing it safe" and avoiding responsibility.

[autorank]

12. Congress is inhaling that stuff in the baloon! We are nothing to them.

They think because they're elected, they're special, they no more than us. After all, the elections
are a joke, they know it, and, wait a minute, they're the ones winning. That should give you a clue.

Busy day but couldn't let it end with out supporting your sentiments, unlike you did the other day...
but I'm not mad, just a little disappointed...

:evilgrin: