Letters to the Editor
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Serial Denial
One of the increasingly inexcusable lapses of the Democratic Congress thus far has been its apparent lack of interest in undertaking a real investigation into how the Bush administration used its NSA warrantless surveillance powers during the five years when it was eavesdropping on Americans in secret and illegally...
One of how many. I lost count a long, long time ago.
And, yet, since the last mid-term election, the Democratic rank & file - including a good many bloggers - seem perfectly comfortable ignoring or rationalizing the party's failings. What Americans have - finally, to the relief of most Republicans - is a lawless government made possible by cowardice and corruption. Astoundingly, Democrats have not been held accountable for their complete and utter capitulation to the GOP's post-Constitutional smash & grab... and it looks as though they never will be. The vast majority of Russert-loving, DLC-type mealy-mouths who justified one abuse after another - all the while expressing "some reservations" and "concern" so as not to appear overtly complicit - are rubbing their hands together for their party's shot at the presidency. That's the real reason why Democrats shrink from talk of impeachment and everybody knows it. George W. Bush could rape a Cub Scout in the Rose Garden at a press conference and not be held to account... for who, pray tell, would make him accountable?
Justice doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell. Nobody understands this more than those who profit, literally and figuratively, from the crimes committed against the American people.
People need to ask themselves, "If we no longer have Constitutional Republic, then what DO we have?"
The NeoCons got their revolution. Regardless of the cost in terms of political fortunes won and lost in this and subsequent decades, the jewel in the crown of that revolution will endure: The very notion of public - public space, public parks, public health, public officials, public good, public roads - has been largely erased from the collective American conscience.
Despite all the suffering and misery unleashed by the Republicans' relentless, systematic assault on The Constitution, Democrats have yet to realize that the whole of their party needs to be demolished and rebuilt. Most liberals and centrists appear to be engaging in the fantasy that politicians who couldn't stand up to The Bush Machine will magically make great leaders when they are restored to power by default - an observation which leads me to believe the term reality-based has reached its expiration date.