The Only Things Truly “Compromised” - Keith Olbermann, MSNBC

[helderheid]

The Only Things Truly “Compromised” - Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
May 24th, 2007

Keith Olbermann, MSNBC



This is, in fact, a http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/05/23/special-comment-the-only-things-truly-compromised-are-the-trust-of-the-votersfriends-and-family-in-iraq/">comment about? betrayal.

Few men or women elected in our history — whether executive or legislative, state or national — have been sent into office with a mandate more obvious, nor instructions more clear: Get us out of Iraq.

Yet after six months of preparation and execution-half a year gathering the strands of public support; translating into action, the collective will of the nearly 70 percent of Americans who reject this War of Lies, the Democrats have managed only this:

* The Democratic leadership has surrendered to a president-if not the worst president, then easily the most selfish, in our history-who happily blackmails his own people, and uses his own military personnel as hostages to his asinine demand, that the Democrats “give the troops their money”;

* The Democratic leadership has agreed to finance the deaths of Americans in a war that has only reduced the security of Americans;

* The Democratic leadership has given Mr. Bush all that he wanted, with the only caveat being, not merely meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government, but optional meaningless symbolism about benchmarks for the Iraqi government.

* The Democratic leadership has, in sum, claimed a compromise with the Administration, in which the only things truly compromised, are the trust of the voters, the ethics of the Democrats, and the lives of our brave, and doomed, friends, and family, in Iraq.

You, the men and women elected with the simplest of directions-Stop The War-have traded your strength, your bargaining position, and the uniform support of those who elected you? for a handful of magic beans.

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[indepat]

1. And the magic beans are going to piss all over the Dems and all of us

[helderheid]

2. Question - if they DON'T vote for this bill, would that be the equivalent to not funding the war?

[indepat]

3. I only know that if the congressional Dems don't do everything in their power to dismember all

elements of this vast RW criminal conspiracy, they will take down this constitutional Republic, bit by bit until W declares himself dictator in response to some supposed national emergency, real or not, significant in magnitude of threat, or not. The architecture of this complete takeover is already in place, whereas the Dems, with their figurative fingers stuck up their own asses, are afraid of not being polite, not acting with proper decorum while they and us are being trampled.

Edited: syntax

[helderheid]

4. I believe you're right

[Gabi Hayes]

5. so do I, and, in other words, were totally SCREWN

the only thing that makes sense is blackmail on an unimaginably frightening level

applying Occam's razor to this scene demands what other explanation?

[helderheid]

8. LMAO!!!

[Individualist]

10. Love the cat!

[Individualist]

6. Thank you for posting this

It bears repeating many times.

[Individualist]

7. K&R

[Individualist]

9. kick

[mmonk]

11. Yes, our party is currently the Neville Chamberlain

of politics.