Reply #9: Did you read this part? It nails it!

[ihavenobias]

"There are two schools of thought on this. The first is that they make money from the same lobbyists, so they don't want to upset their paymasters. They don't want to rock the boat because they are collaborators in the same corrupt system. In other words, they are paid to be the Washington Generals to the Republican Globetrotters.

That is such a miserably sad scenario, that I will give them the benefit of the doubt, and say we should consider the second option instead. The second possibility is that they are the only people left in the country who still think that anyone gives a shit what George Bush has to say....

If we are to be kind and assume that the Democratic leadership is not deceitful and complicit, then we are left with the unfortunate alternative that they are hopelessly dense. How low does Bush's approval rating have to be before you realize it is to your political advantage to oppose him rather than to bend to his will?

How blind do you have to be to not see that helping Bush makes you look pathetically weak? I don't feel good speaking to our elected leaders this way. I would like to have some respect for these positions. But they make it impossible to respect them.

What's really sad is that they have no idea how much people would love them if they just fought back a little bit. They're too busy trying to get the Republicans, Fox News Channel and the Washington elite to love them. Turn around, your electorate is dying to support you.

Give them a chance and they would back you a 100%. But you make that impossible when you keep supporting the one man everyone else realizes is the least trustworthy person in the country -- George W. Bush."