Comments on: The Democratic Party’s Iraq Quandary http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/the-democratic-partys-iraq-quandary/ Politics 2.0 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dad http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/the-democratic-partys-iraq-quandary/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Dad Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:11:54 +0000 http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/the-democratic-partys-iraq-quandary/#comment-1166 No responsible Congress, regardless of party affiliation, will throw the baby out with the bath water just to win a popularity contest. If they perceive disengagement to be their mandate, the ultimate decisions that are made will be arrived at with much than just that in mind. Neither expect them to partner with the electorate in this process, in the full light of day. Government does not operate that way, and never will, even if it came to turning out the two-party system completely. No responsible Congress, regardless of party affiliation, will throw the baby out with the bath water just to win a popularity contest. If they perceive disengagement to be their mandate, the ultimate decisions that are made will be arrived at with much than just that in mind.

Neither expect them to partner with the electorate in this process, in the full light of day. Government does not operate that way, and never will, even if it came to turning out the two-party system completely.

]]> By: Vince Williams http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/the-democratic-partys-iraq-quandary/comment-page-1/#comment-1165 Vince Williams Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:45:52 +0000 http://www.washingtonhotlist.com/the-democratic-partys-iraq-quandary/#comment-1165 If the Democrats in Congress don't seize this opportunity to rebuke Bush's misguided adventurism in the prosecution of the Iraq War (not forgetting the fraudulent premises used to sell it), then they forfeit the mandate they won by default only. The performance standard of the Democratic Party as the "opposition" has been so poor the last few political cycles that its legitimacy as anything more than a supine collaborator with the Republican Vandals could rightly be questioned. How else to explain the craven immobility of the Democratic Party when the neocon pillagers invaded Washington with all the zest of the barbarian hordes sacking Rome? If the Democrats in Congress don’t seize this opportunity to rebuke Bush’s misguided adventurism in the prosecution of the Iraq War (not forgetting the fraudulent premises used to sell it), then they forfeit the mandate they won by default only.

The performance standard of the Democratic Party as the “opposition” has been so poor the last few political cycles that its legitimacy as anything more than a supine collaborator with the Republican Vandals could rightly be questioned.

How else to explain the craven immobility of the Democratic Party when the neocon pillagers invaded Washington with all the zest of the barbarian hordes sacking Rome?

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