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• Monday, August 6, 2007 09:32 AM

  more on the lack of difference between the parties

  Melthough said it well, but I'll add something to it. Those of us who believe there's little difference between the parties are talking not about what they believe or what they say but about what would happen if they were in office. Look again at Greenwald's post today: a Democratic-led Congress just pass this this FISA "reform" that is not only apalling but utterly Republican in nature. Why work to put Democrats in power if they're going to do what Republicans would do?

  I think it's quite possible that if Gore had become president, he would have invaded Iraq just as Bush did, not because he believed in it but because the Republican-led Congress (and the media) would have forced him to do it and he wouldn't want to appear weak. If Hillary Clinton gets elected in 2008, I'm not convinced that she won't invade Iran simply because the Republicans and the media will put pressure on her to do so, and she won't want to appear weak. If this sound crazy to you, look at the FISA bill Congress just passed!

  This Congress has the opportunity to show us that they really are different from Republicans, rather than just saying so. I'm still waiting.

  P.S. It's worth repeating what Kucinich said: "Why don't people vote? It's because they don't think there is much of a difference between the two parties." He's absolulety correct, and that's quite different from stating his own beliefs about the difference, and if this statement elicits boos and mockery from Democrats, then God help us.

  —Tom 70 Read Tom 70's other letters
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