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• Wednesday, June 13, 2007 09:36 PM

  Where’s the Opposition?

  As much as I detest King George and his Merry Band of Malcontents the true tragedy of the last six years has been the complete absence of any true opposition to his policies. The Democratic Party spent 2001-2005 basically giving Bush everything he wanted with little more than token noise. From the cowardly vote authorizing the use of force against in Iraq, the passage of the Patriot Act to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus the Democrats never articulated the kind of the clear concise opposition to Bush’s policies that people like Blumenthal have been doing for years. Instead they stuck their heads in the sand.

  Even after retaking Congress in 2006 on what had to be one of the clearest messages ever sent by the voting public Harry Reid gave away the farm one day into debate over Iraq funding by announcing the ‘compromise’ they’d all agree to three weeks BEFORE it actually happened.

  The ‘top tier’ Democratic candidates’ position on Iraq remains little more than murky opposition with no real strategy or plan for how to get out of this mess. Only Biden (routinely dismissed by the MSM) has presented a coherent strategy. And while his ‘soft-partition’ plan has flaws it at least represents movement.

  Bush may be an egotistical blowhard whose rantings have crippled America but even more deafening has been the silence from the other side.

  —thorin01 Read thorin01's other letters
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