Why the Senate non-Democrat "Democrats" won't block Alito

[David Van Os]

So many frustrated Democrats keep asking themselves why won't the Senate Democrats show more resistance to the Bushites' continuing drive for consolidation of anti-Constitutional executive power (which has been the Bush motive all along, as clearly revealed in the FL election theft). I would like to suggest an answer. With just a very few notable exceptions, the "Democratic" Senators aren't Democrats at all. What they really are is the apologist wing of the Republican Party. Their purpose is to apologize for the anti-democratic actions of their (i.e. Repub) party's leadership.

You might also say they are the "straight men" of the Republican Party. They serve the purpose of providing the illusion that we still have the checks and balances of a two-party system. By doing so they are accomlices in the Bushite power grab. A real Democratic Party would have walked out of the Congress at the Bushites' arrogant dismissal of Constitutional government. They would have declared their refusal to participate any longer in a sham and gone back to their districts to mobilize the people against the imperial presidency. As Noam Chomsky said recently, the Bushites would be in terrible political trouble right now if the country had an opposition party.

As I opined in a previous post, George crossed the Rubicon when he declared he was going to continue wiretapping without warrants. As I expected would happen, the Senate "Democrats" meekly allowed him to march into Rome without serious opposition, and now they are about to let him place another one of his mouthpieces in the consulship to rubberstamp the power seizure.

I wish the millions of frustrated grassroots Fighting Democrats who keep expecting the Senate "Democrats" to provide opposition leadership, and who keep getting let down, would stop wasting their energies on the vain hope that the Scaredy-Cat "Democrats" will magically transform into Fighting Democrats. Those who owe their political careers to a decayed political culture will not change that culture. I wish the mass of grassroots Democrats would hunker down for the long haul of transforming our party into a real political party that can mobilize a base, instead of the brokerage agency that it is now.

There are two prongs to this work. They are of equal priority. One prong is mobilizing in election cycles to get pro-democracy Fighting Democrats elected to public office, and the other prong is placing pro-democracy Democrats in internal party positions (pct chair, county chair, executive committee positions, convention delegates, etc.) Bend your efforts to fight for these things as hard as you can. Do your part and run for something yourself, either for public office or Democratic party office. Fight 'em till hell freezes over, then fight 'em on the ice.

David Van Os
Democratic Candidate for Texas Attorney General
You can help me keep going at www.vanosfortexasag.com

[quiet.american]

1. Thanks, David. "Dems" fightin' words! :) n/t

[hwmnbn]

2. Well said, David......

and I agree with you 100%

If we can't make more than noise about the litany of crimes and corruption the chimp has committed, there is something really wrong.

[Binka]

3. Great Post!

Go get 'em Dave!

[acmejack]

4. Amen, Brother!

It's just all the damage they are doing in the meanwhile with their diebold machines and all.

[pberq]

5. Kick & Nominated - We need more people like you speaking the truth

[Horse with no Name]

6. Absolutely true.

Cya in April.:thumbsup:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. David, every time I hear your opinions I like you even more

A real Democratic Party would have walked out of the Congress at the Bushites' arrogant dismissal of Constitutional government. They would have declared their refusal to participate any longer in a sham and gone back to their districts to mobilize the people against the imperial presidency.

You said a mouthful right there. Yet you're not just telling us what we want to hear, you actually have a plan to work toward change.

Keep it up!

[Burning Water]

8. Why do you expect

career politicians to act like anything but career politicians. We need to go back to the days when a citizen would serve in public office for a few years as a civic service, then return to the farm, or his shop, or the factory. Whatever, back to private life to live under the laws he helped to pass. A lot of bad laws would never have been passed in Congress had not exempted themselves.