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I've been trying to figure out why the Democrats are seemingly so ineffective in exposing this corrupt and incompetent administration. It's true that there are no clear cut leaders in the Democratic party, and for sure Hillary is not the answer. I agree with Molly Ivin's gutsy column this weekend saying she can't support Hillary's "triangulation, calculation, and equivocation". In other words stop playing it so cagey following your handler's advice and say what you really feel Hillary. After 5 years of scripted Bush bullshit directed by Karl Rove and not one successful accomplishment in those 5 years except his re-election, why aren't you leveling with the American people and shouting this President has been wrong on everything he's done. So what if you voted to give him the power to invade Iraq. Just say it was a mistake and the President and his men lied to you about the reasons for going to war. It's not about how you voted, it's about the unprecedented incompetence of this President and the corruption that is so much a part of his abuse of power. But instead she gives a tough speech last week, finally attacking the President's incompetence and corruption and she mis-uses the word "plantation" to describe the Republican controlled house, and her important content gets buried in the Republican trumped up criticism of "plantation". If she can't get it done against this President with all the arrows sticking in him from Iraq, the unwarranted domestic spying, the defecit, the oh so messy, medicaid bill, social security, Bin Laden's recent threats, the jobless economic growth,the cronyism of Katrina, Libby and Delay going to trial and Jack Abramoff bribes to the Republican party and his long time friendship with Rove, then she's not capable of governing. and that goes for all the other Democratic leaders that can't craft a message pointing this out.
After the Democrats lost a year ago with John Kerry taking it on the chin from the Swift Boat, hired guns, it took a actor to define what happened. Alec Baldwin said it best on a TV show when he said Kerry and the rest of the Dems thought they were at a polite washington cocktail party in the campaign, but the rules changed quickly when the Republicans came up to Kerry
during the party and slapped him hard on the face. He didn't know how to react and the voters picked up on this. Well the same thing is happening now. Every day the Republicans rip the Democrats as being soft on terror and instead of shouting back that bin Laden's still issuing threats 4 years later and the war in Iraq is a bigger mistake than Vietnam, and Iran is going nuclear, and worldwide terrorism and hatred of the US has grown dramatically under this administration, the Democrats complain about Roe Vs Wade being in jeopardy.
Here are the issues for the 06 mid-terms and the 08 election that will win it for the Dems if they could just get a leader to fight back: The failures in Iraq are Bush's fault,and in no way justify the his breaking the law with domestic spying . the defecit and the rising cost of health care and gas are Bush's fault. Abramoff, Libby and Delay and the Republican culture of corruption is Bush's fault and the staggering defecit and mis-guided government spending are Bush's fault.
My candidates for 08 are Al Gore and Wesley Clark. Gore has finally found his balls and his voice and Clark is a liberal warrior. If Karl Rove tried to slap him on the face as he did Kerry, he'd end up on his fat flabby ass.