Letters to the Editor
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Gordon
I'm no big time political activist. Actually, I'm pretty close to a nobody as one can get. I do talk to people about politics and I have tried since the start of the Iraqi war to get the few people that I know to lean towards the left. I was unsuccessful in '04. I've had more luck in '06 and after. But, with the way the Democrats vote on such things as FISA, MoveOn, and the discussion going on about retro-active immunity for telecoms, I've stopped dead in my tracks. What gives? What the hell are the explanations for the votes that were given? With Republicans there seems to be one view and one view only (a lot of times). Democrats are not like that and have varying opinions. Ok, but dang it, there are people dying. Ok, it's not me, not anyone in my family, not even anyone close to me. But should the fact that people are dying not give the Democrats some sort of unity to oppose the current flow of the administration? I understand that there are small victories here and there and hopefully they'll build up to a change in direction that this country is taking. But it is the big bumps in the road that the Democrats seem to be stumbling over that make it really really hard to explain to anyone why the Democrats are acting this way. And if the explanation is, well some Democrats are corrupt/sucks, then maybe the borderline people that I've been working on think that they may just have to vote in another/different Republican...