Not to rain on anybody’s Obama parade, but…
Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
It is worth remembering that the Democrats who are going to exert dominant political control are the same ones who have provoked so much scorn — rightfully so — over the last several years, and particularly since 2006.  This is the same Democratic Party leadership which funded the Iraq War without conditions and voted to authorize it in the first place; massively expanded the Presidents warrantless eavesdropping powers; immunized lawbreaking telecoms; enacted the Patriot Act and then renewed it with virtually no changes; didnt even bother to mount a filibuster to stop the Military Commissions Act; refrained from pursuing any meaningful investigations of Bush lawbreaking; confirmed every last extremist Bush nominee, from Michael McConnell to Michael Mukasey; acquiesced to even the worst and most lawless Bush policies when they were briefed on them; and on and on and on.  None of that has changed.  That is still who they are.
The Democrats have at least 57 (check that, Alaska, 58!) votes in the Senate, a bigger lead in the House, and the presidency. Â And yet, Democrats in the Senate are just about ready to reward Holy Joe Lieberman for speaking at the Republican Convention and maligning, impugning, and slandering Barack Obama by letting him keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee, where he failed to convene any oversight hearings for Bush’s major failings in homeland security!
No wonder the “Democrats are weak” theme sticks so well. Â Holy Joe was rejected by the Democrats of his own state, so he said “screw them, I know better” ran as Republicrat and won. Â Holy Joe repeatedly screwed over Democrats in his cheerleading for the Bush war machine. Â Holy Joe even screwed over Barack Obama, not by supporting his friend McCain, but by actively tearing down the nominee of his own (supposed) party!
And Dems are going to let him just get away with it, again, with absolutely no consequences for his treachery.
You wondered what there would be to rant about after the end of the Bush Administration?  Oh, what will the shrieking lefty talkers have to screech about without Bush?  Just you wait.  With Bush, the actions were egregious, but expected, because hey, it’s a son of a Bush.  But with Obama and the congressional Dems, with no excuse of being the minority party or facing presidential veto, you expect better.  I believe there will be plenty to talk about in the coming years… but at least it will be disappointment in an administration not doing enough good instead of the terror of an administration doing far too much evil.
