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01/03/07, 01:30 am
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201003.html?nav=rss_politics
"If the first 100 hours is going to be characterized by an increase in the minimum wage and improved health and education benefits for Americans, that's fine," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a liberal firebrand who ran for president in 2004 and has announced for 2008. "But then let's talk about the second hundred hours, because we cannot let this war be lost. We cannot abandon the troops in the field to temporizing."
To most Democratic lawmakers, such activism presents a quandary. House Republican leaders spent years trying to placate their conservative base with agendas built around opposition to same-sex marriage, antiabortion votes and tax cuts, said Sen.-elect Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.). The partisan tone enraged Democrats and ultimately alienated moderates and independents, who swept the GOP from power in November after a dozen years in control.
"The Democrats have to be careful not to fall into these traps that I think paralyzed the Republicans," Cardin said.
Bullshit Benji!
Anyone who would characterize an aggressive agenda against this war as partisan politics destined for failure is not only out of touch on this issue but out of touch with this country as well.
George Bush is about to announce his new bizarro world plan of "sacrificing" MORE troops in Iraq. What was once just a fool's politics has now reached the level of criminally insane.
We need to send more troops to war alright.
To war against the policies of this administration.
to war Democrats,
to war liberals,
to war progressives,
to war hippies,
to war pinkos,
to war Republicans
to war conservatives,
to war rednecks,
to war journalists,
to war students,
to war little old ladies,
until there is No War, No more.
The time for tip toeing around the issue is over. It is time for "boots on the ground". A march to the White House.
Sadly, what this President thinks he learned from Vietnam is not that we stayed too long, but that we weren't strong enough. But what that war really demonstrated is that citizens can be heard if they shout loud enough.
Our troops have fought long enough overseas based on one man's politics of fear. Now it is our turn to do our part here at home.
Bush says "we need to fight the terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here".
I say WE NEED TO FIGHT THE TERROR TACTICS HERE
SO OUR SONS & DAUGHTERS DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT HIS WAR OVER THERE
This is how it was done then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Vietnam_War
This post is how lazy liberals like me do it now. But it just ain't cutting it anymore. :protest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201003.html?nav=rss_politics
"If the first 100 hours is going to be characterized by an increase in the minimum wage and improved health and education benefits for Americans, that's fine," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a liberal firebrand who ran for president in 2004 and has announced for 2008. "But then let's talk about the second hundred hours, because we cannot let this war be lost. We cannot abandon the troops in the field to temporizing."
To most Democratic lawmakers, such activism presents a quandary. House Republican leaders spent years trying to placate their conservative base with agendas built around opposition to same-sex marriage, antiabortion votes and tax cuts, said Sen.-elect Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.). The partisan tone enraged Democrats and ultimately alienated moderates and independents, who swept the GOP from power in November after a dozen years in control.
"The Democrats have to be careful not to fall into these traps that I think paralyzed the Republicans," Cardin said.
Bullshit Benji!
Anyone who would characterize an aggressive agenda against this war as partisan politics destined for failure is not only out of touch on this issue but out of touch with this country as well.
George Bush is about to announce his new bizarro world plan of "sacrificing" MORE troops in Iraq. What was once just a fool's politics has now reached the level of criminally insane.
We need to send more troops to war alright.
To war against the policies of this administration.
to war Democrats,
to war liberals,
to war progressives,
to war hippies,
to war pinkos,
to war Republicans
to war conservatives,
to war rednecks,
to war journalists,
to war students,
to war little old ladies,
until there is No War, No more.
The time for tip toeing around the issue is over. It is time for "boots on the ground". A march to the White House.
Sadly, what this President thinks he learned from Vietnam is not that we stayed too long, but that we weren't strong enough. But what that war really demonstrated is that citizens can be heard if they shout loud enough.
Our troops have fought long enough overseas based on one man's politics of fear. Now it is our turn to do our part here at home.
Bush says "we need to fight the terrorists there so we don't have to fight them here".
I say WE NEED TO FIGHT THE TERROR TACTICS HERE
SO OUR SONS & DAUGHTERS DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT HIS WAR OVER THERE
This is how it was done then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Vietnam_War
This post is how lazy liberals like me do it now. But it just ain't cutting it anymore. :protest: