Do we need to keep huge pressure on the Dems? Hell yes.
The best way to do that is to push from the left and don't vote
for them.
Bush has a long way to go before he kills as many people in Iraq
as Clinton did, estimated at more than 1 million (compared to current
estimates of tens of thousands in this war segment).
Getting rid of Bush doesn't get rid of Bushism (a euphemism for
black-hearted corporate control of government). None of the
Democratic candidates, including Kucinich, is attacking the poison in
his own party. What we are experiencing today is the result of the
dismal failure of the Democrats to act Democratically when they
controlled all three houses. They're as corporate as Republicans.
They're just not as up front (i.e., transparent) as Bush. Notice they
don't even try to appeal to (and thereby expand) the 10 percent of
Republican voters who say they are embarrassed by Bush.
I don't have a solution. Just pondering. I would, however, work
to elect Kucinich if he chastised the Democratic Party and introduced
articles of impeachment in the House. Perhaps he's too wrapped up in
the run for the presidency to use this Constitutional tool to start a
national discussion more significant than the present made-for-teevee
situation comedy posing as a people governing itself, in which he is
given a mere walk-on role.
(Impossible? I reckon, since most of the members of the House of
Representatives are complicit in the treason, notably passing the
Patriot Act. But we do need a new national conversation, one based on
what we set out to do as a nation. You know: general welfare,
domestic tranquillity, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness -- that
stuff.)
Dan
