I’m not sure how, but I’ve ended up subscribed to the RNC mailing list under the name of my father. I get their emails, glance at the headlines, and throw them out mostly. (If you didn’t know already, I think anyone who follows bush should be immediately thrown out of the country having had their left ear cut off.) It’s nice to at least have an idea how ridiculous these people are.
So I also managed to sign up (or get spammed by) for a few democratic newsletters. The two letters are included after me ranting in case you’d want to read them. Here I go.
Ugh. So there are two political parties within these United States, the only way either party is willing to to acknowledge the existence of the other is with a quick and shallow denouncing.
Dean raises some valid points, at least peppering his attack with facts. Mehlman doesn’t make one objective statement in his entire letter. It amounts to nothing more then DEMOCRATS WANT AMERICA DEAD, which I’m hoping isn’t true. Dean’s isn’t much better, coming to REBUBLICANS ARE LIARS.
I’m going to overlook the fact that indeed, republicans are liars, for a minute here. As bad as the exchange between parties is, I don’t see why the democrats are so handily losing. I do hope that things turn around in the upcoming elections, I’m quite embarrassed they’ve deteriorated so far and so fast. I can’t heartily support either party – but there are more individual democrats out there I agree with than republicans.
American politics are a complete joke. Shouldn’t the debate surrounding the activities and policies of our nation be more then shouting? Could the american people even handle anything more then almost incoherent babble and sniping between members of either party? Because the debate isn’t more then hollering across the aisle, and the american people don’t seem to be doing anything about it.
I don’t know all that much about politics. I’ve taken the standard politics courses, but all my actual experience in worldly politics has come in the current era. The bush era. This can’t be how to govern a nation. I’m actually young enough to have not yet paid taxes; I can’t be sure I ever will, with politics as they are now. This isn’t worth my money, and I don’t want to have anything to do with it.
The American government has held up quite well to this point. 200+ years of steady rule, very little national controversy. I can’t speak for the years before me, but I’d like to know if it’s always been this bad. Maybe I’m just completely unreasonable and should settle down. Self doubt works well to keep me humble. But my illusion is that things have fallen into a shithole lately. I’d be surprised if America could last this long in her current state.
All I want to know, is do we have to stand for this? I live my life, fairly normally, and for the most part nothing the government does affects me beyond idea. Taxes will be paid, their being high or low may give or take a bit of money from me, but nothing more. I’ve never been to Iraq, nor do I have expedient plans to go there. So why should I be concerned over their being ravaged and terrorized by my government?
For whatever reason I am concerned. I’m not doing much to change the course of politics, but I’m thinking a lot about it. I came across Death to Government by Karl Hess a week or two ago searching for “giving up government.” I think I’d be ready to throw everyone out of washington in the interest of reform.
I can’t say with any certainty that I’ve ever admired a politician outside of Paul Wellstone. The libertarian idea, “how do you dismantle government from within government,” hits hard. It sucks that you have to first submit to the degenerating political system before you can do anything to change it.
Or the hacker spirit:
To protest, you have to take the present, and construct a new present with the tools provided, and put it in-front of the people. And you have to win, because the modern world, as Marx understood, is popular. You have to win by marketing. Matt Webb
So that was a lot more ranting then I intended and it lacked any real end, but it gave me lots to think about. Don’t expect much from me, how about.
‘Russ Fiengold is a traitor’That’s what Republicans want you to think.
They are so scared of having a legitimate debate about Iraq or national security that they have only one reaction to news of their failures or calls for accountability.
On Monday, Democratic Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to censure the President for breaking the law by creating a secret domestic spying program. Agree or disagree with his proposal, as a Senator—and as an American—he has the right to speak his mind and express his views without Republican Senators questioning his patriotism.
But that’s exactly what happened. This week Republican Senator Wayne Allard of Colorado, in an interview with Fox News radio, said in response to Feingold’s action that he has “time and time again [sided] with the terrorists”.
Send a message to Senator Allard: shame on him for questioning the patriotism of another Senator. Sign this petition and it will be delivered to Allard:
http://www.democrats.org/stopattackingruss
Agree or disagree with Russ Feingold’s censure resolution, it is completely out of bounds to suggest that anyone demanding accountability is siding with terrorists. It is simply un-American to question the patriotism and loyalty of a Senator who wants the Congress to live up to its responsibility.
We’ve heard this cowardly nonsense from Republican leaders before. They attacked decorated Veteran and Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha for getting real on Iraq. They attacked Democratic Leader Harry Reid for shutting down the Senate to demand answers about manipulated pre-war intelligence.
They have ended the careers of generals who questioned Bush Administration talking points, and they even attack their own when respectable Republicans speak out on the disaster this administration has created in Iraq and its failure to close the gaps in our security here at home.
And time and again, the Republican controlled congress has consistently failed to conduct real oversight of the Administration, choosing instead to protect the Administration.
But polls show that nearly 70% of Americans reject this president and the Republican Congress that has failed to hold him accountable. And together we will hold Republicans accountable at the ballot box this year.
That’s why the Democratic Party is putting the infrastructure on the ground now to fight in all 50 states. People everywhere are saying “enough is enough”—and we will be ready to organize and fight everywhere with your help.
Please contribute whatever you can to make it happen:
http://www.democrats.org/accountability
The sick behavior of desperate Republicans will only stop when we fight back, and 2006 is the time to do it.
Thank you,
Governor Howard Dean, M.D.
Their Real AgendaThis week, liberal Democrat Russ Feingold called on the Senate to censure the President for a program that is successfully stopping terrorists. After months of searching, Democrat leaders are finally beginning to find their agenda: take away the tools America needs to fight terror. In the last 24 hours, fringe groups like MoveOn.org and Democrat leaders from John Kerry to Harry Reid to Dick Durbin have rallied to Feingold’s side, praising his grandstanding as a “catalyst” for the investigation of the President.
Weakening our national security is their agenda. Is it yours? Sign the petition to tell the Democrat leaders to stop undermining the War on Terror with cheap political stunts.
We are a nation at war. Our President has no more basic responsibility than to protect the American people and fight terrorists who want to kill us. It’s one thing if a lone Senator wants our government to look the other way when an Al Qaeda terrorist contacts a sleeper cell inside the United States. It’s entirely another when Democrat minority leader Harry Reid commends Feingold’s censure move for “bringing [the terrorist surveillance program] to the attention of the American people.”
Democrat leaders never miss an opportunity to put politics before our nation’s security. And now, they would rather censure the President for doing his job than actually fight the War on Terror. It’s what the MoveOn.org wing of their party wants, and now, it’s their agenda – from the top of the ticket on down.
Make your voice heard. Tell Democrat leaders to stop playing politics with national security.
Sincerely,
Ken Mehlman,
Chairman, Republican National Committee
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