Reply #34: Should they have a plan? Or should they stand up and fight exactly

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when you want them too. There is an election in 2006. Principle is important. But at this point - I think the election is the most important thing. Perhaps the Dems want to keep the fillibuster to stop Bush from going to war with Iran in about September of 2006. I don't know.

But I'm not going to judge Dems on things they have no control over. They have no power to stop Bush from filling the empty Supreme Court seat this year. I for one would rather we discuss Abramoff, Delay, Rovegate, Nigerian Uranium, faulty intelligence, shared risk health care, Bush presumed incompetence vs. his intentional incompetense, corruption, campaign finance (that was on the agenda here until "I hate the Democrats" took over), Brownie, Bolton, US doing its damnedest to tear up international agreements, lack of condoms for girls systematically raped in Uganda, Darfur, Iraq fiasco, torture, the way right wing fundies have been funded by big oil ore the years and taught to hate "humanists" (which means liberals) before all else ..say poverty is not the worst thing on the list anymore.. it is humanits apparently, Unitary executive, intentional mis-governance in the Drug care plan, hiding documents in the Katrian commission, election transparency reform, education, science, job-losses, the phony pumping up of the stock market at the expense of the unemployed or under-employed (who do all the sacrifice in fighting inflation), the attack on the UN, peace in Israel/Palestine, etc.

Think of all the time taken up on the DU boards these last few weeks - with people wining they are unhappy and want to leave. But they don't leave.

Fact is that Bush gets to make the choice of new supreme court justice. It will be Alito or someone exactly the same.

Let's try and get ahead and think of the elections and learn to work together.