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Alumbrado -> RE: Matt Taibbi: How the Dems screwed the peace movement (2/18/2008 11:10:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: luckydog1
Alumbrado, but Clintons mandate was 38% of the voting population---18% of the general---and less than 1 in 5 isns't much of a mandate. owner has been adamant that Pelosi and Reid would have to force the dems to go along, likening it to Tom Delay. The fact is the Dem majority barley beat the traditional boost that the non presidential party gets in non presidential years (basically the minority base gets more fired up and a higher turnout). There was no mandate to end the war. The vast majority of people do not like the war, and current world situation. But very few people take the hard left peace movement, seriously. If Pelosi tried to force a hard stop to the war, a bloc of Conservative Dems would bolt and she would be the minority leader the next day. And she knows it. But they desperatly need that left wing vote to have a chance in 08, quite a quandry.
Come election time, its not a matter of how many people hate Bush. Its a matter of how many people vote Democrat.
How soon we forget... Clinton claimed a landslide victory and a mandate from the people based on his 43% of the popular vote (45 million) to Bush Sr's 37% (39 million), as well as 370 electoral votes to Bush's 168, and on the holding of majority in Congress.
And just as in every other case, including the 'great leap forward' of the 70s when 'progressive' Democrats swept into office all over the country, it remained business as usual...war, prejudice, corruption and above all profiteering, didn't miss a lick.
So the perpetuation of the status quo, where one side points fingers at the other and acts in exactly the same self interested manner when power comes their way, should surprise no one.
I would be happy for someone new to come along and prove me wrong, but history so far, has not.
There are no good guys in politics.
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