This one goes out to everyone @ ACreativeRevolution (special thanks to TheManWithNoPoint for kicking off the campaign, to pale, Prole, and Frank Frink for all their heavy lifting – I am but a mere cog in the machine); to JJ Hippie, Bruce @ Canuck Attitude,Dave @ The Galloping Beaver and anyone else whom I’ve neglected to acknowledge (be sure to big up yrselves in comments and I’ll update):
Fuck Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the spineless, sycophantic Democratic leadership, blissfully content to piss away all political capital accrued last November. Speaks volumes upon volumes when self-interested political jockeying leads Republicans to briefly save a motion of impeachment against Cheney, while the Dem leadership decide their moderate cred trumps upholding civic duty (to say nothing of the will of the people).
Instead of looking like they control the appointment process, this exercise just confirms for the Democratic Party base that their Congress has assumed a mostly-supine position vis-a-vis George Bush. What an absurd piece of political theater. As Casey Stengel once said of the Mets, can’t anyone in the Senate Democratic caucus play this game?
What the fuck is the point of controlling both the House and the Senate if the Dems continually roll over for Bush like loyal lap dogs (barring the now-tiresome Kabuki theatrics)? Seriously, Arlan Specter should sue the Donkeys for fucking patent infringement.