FDL: Do The Dems Need an Intervention?

Do Democrats Need an Intervention?
By Scarecrow on Fri Sep 7, 2007 at 06:30 am


I was always told that it was both wise and good manners not to intervene with parents who seem to be making every mistake in the book with their spoiled children. The Democrats have been observing that rule on the theory that the badly behaved children occupying the White House are not their kids; Bush and Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove, Gonzales and etc. were, from a political standpoint, the Republicans’ problem. With only a few exceptions, Democrats have never been willing to argue that the White House belonged to all of us and not to the most dangerous segment of the Republican party.

Using the 2006 elections as a guide in which the public thumped the White House and Republicans for their conceit, childish arrogance and all around bad behavior, the Democrats have been acting as though letting the wayward children do whatever they want will work for them again in 2008. The implicit assumption is that somehow, the country will survive having the most irresponsible, reckless, lawless and dishonest Administration any of us has ever seen, and the Democrats can clean up the mess when they get in. But the costs of this strategy to the country, and to our Constitution, have been heavy.

It has not yet dawned on many Democrats that responsibility for everything the immature and reckless frat-boy and his dangerously reckless friends are doing may actually pass to them in January 2009. It won’t be seen as the Republicans’ problem; it will be theirs, and the American people will expect them to deal with it. If the 2008 elections go as the pundits are predicting, the Republicans will cease to be the irresponsible parents and the Democrats will have to deal with the unprecedented catastrophe this President has made of everything he and his dangerous friends have touched.

It is the corollary to Powell’s Pottery Barn rule: The Bush/Cheney regime broke it, but the Democrats will own it. And if that is the rule, one would think that the most important strategy for the Democrats now is to do everything they can to prevent the White House occupants from doing any further damage to the country.

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http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/07/do-democrats-need-an-intervention/


ABSOLUTELY! STAND UP TO THESE THUGS!

to remove language that would make the Administration get approval for going into Iran and they lost that vote? I don't have a link but remember reading that.

Why are the dems doing all they can to make things easier for them? The excuse given is that they are afraid to be called 'soft on terror' but there are ways to fight that and they don't want to do it.

Anything to get rid of that appeasement attitude.

Think about it--maybe a spine would actually grow back and they'd be able to refuse the Republicans orders to get down on their knees (to shine the Republican's shoes)