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SugarMyChurro -> RE: Dennis Kucinich to Bring Up Cheney Impeachment Articles on Tuesday (11/9/2007 5:26:32 PM)
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Well, the Democrats proceed with a pointedly erroneous assumption; namely that they can use America's desperate need for political change to win even more seats in the next big election. My opinion is that such an assumption is a misstep of untold proportions for which we shall all pay a very dear price.
The Democrats swept into office on a twin mandate: to end the war with/occupation of Iraq, and to stop this White House Administration in its tracks. Period. That's all they had to do to make their constituents happy. They have the power to end the war. No one doubts that, but they aren't doing it anyway. Many, doubtless rightly, suspect that the Democrats do not oppose the war more directly because the Democrats are in league with the Republicans in actually profiting from the war also. Impeachment is a stickier situation. They probably can't get the votes necessary to oust the Prez and his gang of thugs, but even just pursuing the process has a political gain in stopping the carte blanche corruption with which this Administration has operated. Impeachment proceedings, even if unsuccessful, would also recapture much needed international political support as others countries would observe us opposing this Administration's imperialist tendencies. Impeachment would be one big resounding "No!" to everything for which this Administration stands. But do the Democrats pursue this obvious political gesture? No, they have declared impeachment off the table of their agenda.
So what do we end up with?
We end up with a Democratic congress that fails utterly to distinguish itself from the Republican congress which preceded it. And I guess that's supposed to be good for winning elections, huh?
I doubt it.
So the question is this: what happens to a political party that fails to deliver on the mandates that swept it into power?
And there you have how the next election will turn out, in a nutshell. Republicans rarely vote for some other party, if they don't like their leadership they just don't vote. Democrats will vote to punish or for third party candidates. Neither case spells victory for these idiot Democrats.
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