"The Nov. 7 elections stand as the last check and balance"
robert parry chooses his words carefully, so a comment like this is not to be taken lightly...
while i whole-heartedly support those of my colleagues who stress that we must build for the long haul, and that, no matter the outcome of next week's elections, we've made great strides in doing just that, i am not at all sure that, even if the house is recaptured by democrats (or the senate, which would truly be miraculous), that we will earn a reprieve from the death spiral the bush administration has locked us into... the military commissions act and the seizure of martial law powers and control of the national guard from the states are both moves so frightening in their scope that i am not sure we can recover without a shake-up of truly monumental proportions... Submit To Propeller
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So, it now falls to the electoral process – another flawed part of the American democratic system – to exact some measure of accountability on individuals and institutions that sent more than 2,800 American soldiers to their death on false pretenses.
The Nov. 7 elections stand as the last check and balance, perhaps the last hope.
while i whole-heartedly support those of my colleagues who stress that we must build for the long haul, and that, no matter the outcome of next week's elections, we've made great strides in doing just that, i am not at all sure that, even if the house is recaptured by democrats (or the senate, which would truly be miraculous), that we will earn a reprieve from the death spiral the bush administration has locked us into... the military commissions act and the seizure of martial law powers and control of the national guard from the states are both moves so frightening in their scope that i am not sure we can recover without a shake-up of truly monumental proportions... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
11/01/2006
