The Repubs are distancing themselves from Bush's Iraq war ONLY because

[Lex]

they have to. They have to run again in another election and it's clearly political suicide to continue to support Bush and his insane War.

Otherwise, they'd still have their noses firmly up Bush's rear-end on this War.

Bet on it.


/cynical

[Atman]

1. Water is wet.

Just sayin.

.

[Lex]

2. Aren't you precious?

Just sayin'.

[blondeatlast]

3. Exactly, and we have to dig up every statement and vote they've

had supporting W's policy in Iraq.

[Lex]

6. I think it's crucial to do so, or they will be able to

have it both ways--supporting Bush all along until the precise time it became political suicide to continue to do so. That just about the most wicked a-moral thing I can think of.

Those jerks don't care about anything else, certainly not the men and women who've died in this war.

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. No question

Time for the rats to abandon ship, the USS Fuckup.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Well, the vast majority (not all) are, yes--quelle surprise! Everything

they do is for political advantage. GOPers in Congress do not give enough of a shit about this country to behave otherwise.

[Renew Deal]

7. Isn't that the point of a representative government?

Yep

[frogcycle]

8. clear proof positive that

most politicians* have no scruples, ethics, moral code - you name it.

whichever way the wind blows...

face it folks, for quite some time now running for office has been a chosen career path to achieve fame, wealth, and happiness, just as in the game Careers. It is NOT chosen out of a sense of altruism, wanting to save the world, help the poor, feed the hungry, etc. The people we are dealing with are largely the kind of people Eddie Haskell represented in Leave it to Beaver.

This country is supposed to be governed by We the People, and the representatives are supposed to do our bidding. If we really start holding them accountable, throwing the blatant Eddie Haskells out, bringing in idealistic newcomers, keeping them until they get corrupted and then discarding them, we can fix it.

We need to absolutely break the stranglehold of K-street through 100% public funding of elections - NO contributions allowed, period, for anyone, and no personal funding either.
And we need to undo all the Gerrymandering that has locked in so many of these leeches.
Put the John Laesche's on an absolutely level playing field with the Dennis Hasterts. Ol' Denny would have been sent packing. As would many others.


Then we can try to get back to the original design. Until then, we will keep recycling the same slimeballs.

*evidently ALL republicans, most democrats

[wiggs]

9. It's up to journalists, pundits, and dems to help the public remember

the recent past. Should be easy to do.

[AlCzervik]

10. You know what i don't get--Lindsey Graham, from what i've read at DU his constituents

are really pissed him about the immigration bill and maybe even the war so does Rove have pics of him or what?