You’re not going to get a whole lot of “go team” from me this week, and I suspect that a lot of my friends here are on the same page. I want to specifically focus this rant on our elected officials and the absolute act of betrayal that they committed today. To start, there’s Keith Olbermann’s (as-always) on-target Special Comment about the war spending bill that the Democrats allowed to pass:
That says it all, really. I can’t find much solace in the fact that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton voted against this bill. It doesn’t speak much of their leadership that the bill passed with an overwhelming bipartisan majority. And this is what I’ve been saying all along: the brand of bipartisanship that exists in Washington is a load of horseshit. It generally consists of the Democrats capitulating to the will of the Republicans, and the Republicans never budging on a single issue.
Today, by overwhelming majorities, both houses of Congress gave President Bush everything he wanted, a blank check to conduct the war in Iraq. This is just sickening. The ultimate act of political cowardice by individuals who have no business being a majority party. You wonder why people don’t think Democrats stand for anything? This is why! This was the Democratic majority “showing the way,” if by “showing the way,” you mean being led around by the nose by a warmongering failure of a President.
If they are this deaf to the will of the American people, the Democrats deserve to lose in 2008.