The Dems had better get their asses in high gear FAST and start DEALING with this crap

in an earlier post, i expressed this opinion...

honestly, i'm starting to feel slightly hysterical... i had this momentary flush of optimism after the november elections, even though i realized full well that the constitutional crisis would continue unabated as long as george bush remained in office... but i hoped that there would be some serious democratic action to at least slow it down, if not halt it outright... i'm beginning to think that isn't going to happen, and, as a result, i'm feeling even more frightened about america's future than i was BEFORE the election...

to which i received this comment...

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Profmarcus, you posted this on January 5th, not even 48 hours into the new Congress. Get a grip prof and give them some time. Let's see what the investigations pull up. No one wants to see this war ended more than I do, but to throw up your hands before they've even gotten started is nuts.

to clarify... i believe the dems should have come out swinging on november 8... that's how serious things are... sitting around, waiting until last thursday before even BEGINNING to speak out, and then not forcefully on the issues that matter most, has only allowed bush to continue to consolidate his power and to prepare to stiff-arm the congress and the american people once again... the nyt notes what has happened in that interim...

In 2006, the voters sent Mr. Bush a powerful message that it was time to rein in his imperial ambitions. But we have yet to see any sign that Mr. Bush understands that — or even realizes that the Democrats are now in control of the Congress. Indeed, he seems to have interpreted his party’s drubbing as a mandate to keep pursuing his fantasy of victory in Iraq and to press ahead undaunted with his assault on civil liberties and the judicial system.

they also seem to recognize that the u.s. is at a critical juncture...

We ... hope ... Democratic leaders are not swayed by the absurd notion circulating in Washington that the Democrats should now “look ahead” rather than use their new majority to right the dangerous wrongs of the last six years of Mr. Bush’s one-party rule.

This is a false choice. Dealing with these issues is not about the past. The administration’s assault on some of the nation’s founding principles continues unabated. If the Democrats were to shirk their responsibility to stop it, that would make them no better than the Republicans who formed and enabled these policies in the first place.

the time for talk, consensus building, and politics as usual is long past... we need ACTION, firm, direct, positive ACTION - NOW... our constitution is at stake along with the very future of the united states...

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