For starters, they "question" about 6 years + a river of blood and hundreds of thousands of human deaths and mutilations too late.
I always think of Sherrod Brown's speech back in 2003. The subversion of democracy had started long before then,
and they, Congress, have been wholly pliant, complicit participants.
"You can do a lot in the middle of the night, under the cover of darkness." Never before has the House of Representatives operated in such secrecy:
At 2:54 a.m. on a Friday in March, the House cut veterans benefits by three votes.
At 2:39 a.m. on a Friday in April, the House slashed education and health care by five votes.
At 1:56 a.m. on a Friday in May, the House passed the Leave No Millionaire Behind tax-cut bill by a handful of votes.
At 2:33 a.m. on a Friday in June, the House passed the Medicare privatization and prescription drug bill by one vote.
At 12:57 a.m. on a Friday in July, the House eviscerated Head Start by one vote.
And then, after returning from summer recess, at 12:12 a.m. on a Friday in October, the House voted $87 billion for Iraq.
Always in the middle of the night. Always after the press had passed their deadlines. Always after the American people had turned off the news and gone to bed.
What did the public see? At best, Americans read a small story with a brief explanation of the bill and the vote count in Saturday's papers.
But what did the public miss? They didn't see the House votes, which normally take no more than 20 minutes, dragging on for as long as an hour as members of the Republican leadership trolled for enough votes to cobble together a majority.
They didn't see GOP leaders stalking the floor for whoever was not in line. They didn't see Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay coerce enough Republican members into switching their votes to produce the desired result.
In other words, they didn't see the subversion of democracy.
full text:
http://democrats.house.gov/news/librarydetail.cfm?library_content_id=62Spare us the far too belated public hand-wringing and faux outrage at this grim late hour, congressmen. You all just rubberstamped and swore in another Bush tool of the secrecy and subversion you pretend to lament.
This is garbage.
It is not just the Bush Junta, but this pervasive congressional cancer that has to go in 2008.
OUT with them. OUT!