Steve Soto at The Left Coaster has a post titled Maybe Reid And Pelosi Should Get Out Of The Way
Steve points to the growing chorus of Republicans who have been critical of Bush and the Republican extremist agenda, in ways that the Democrat leadership - for no comprehensible reason - seems willing to be. In his disgust for the leadership void, he sees the potential for "the birth of a new opposition party from the center-left in this country."
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It remains inexplicable pretty much to anyone with an IQ level above tree bark why the Democrats in congress - with certain notable exceptions on very rare occasion - are so damned afraid to hold Bush and the Republican Party accountable for the devastation they have delivered to our nation; for the laws they break, for the lies they spew, for the routine false accusations of insufficient patriotism they hurl, or for the hideously appalling results of their legislative actions and policy agenda.
At times it seems to be a mentality on display parallel with battered wife syndrome. At other times just plain stupidity. And at yet other times it appears to be a total mystery. Often times it is plainly evident that the congressional Democrats live in a bubble, wherein they are exposed only to beltway "conventional wisdom," which - as history has repeatedly shown - is inevitably wrong. Their lame and timid behavior is probably the result of a complex combination of several different contributing factors. Whatever the reason(s), the result invariably is that Republicans are Bluto, and Democrats are Wimpy.
I don't know that it is fair to dump solely on Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi for the generic impotence of the Democrats in congress. They have good hearts, and every very odd once in awhile they do something to make people cheer - not just Democrats, but the broad public at large. Yet their heads seem to be fucked up really bad on the politics a lot. And the appearance of monumental weakness that has accrued needs to be addressed.
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