Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Pelosi's conduct as the nation's newly invested Speaker of the House became increasingly nauseous when she began to speak of George W. Bush as someone who could serve as a working partner for the ultimate betterment of America.

The same pathetic figure who had constantly questioned the patriotism of those opposing his war policies was someone with whom Nancy Pelosi shook hands as he finished delivering his 2007 State of the Union Address, which, following true to form, was another lesson in consistent deception.  

Now we have been treated to another Democratic Party abdication of leadership responsibility comparable to the refusal after the theft-ridden 2004 presidential election to contest an easily discernible pattern of skullduggery.

The Democratic leadership capitulated to the Cheney-Bush neocon brigade on the all-important issue to a timeline for leaving Iraq, not wishing to incur a veto and some more tired rhetoric about "cut and run" that the vast majority of Americans recognize for the deceitful bluster that it is.

Harry Reid carries plausibility to new levels as he declares that he is disappointed that George W. Bush was not engaging in the kind of compromise that he had anticipated.  With Bush's track record how could he ever anticipate such action?

Just after watching and listening with rapt attention to Keith Olbermann's eloquent commentary about the Democratic Party's betrayal of leadership in the face of a national mandate to bring American troops home from Iraq I received a mailing from the Democratic National Committee.

In this communication I was referred to as "fellow Democrat" and told in the accompanying form letter from chairman Howard Dean that "enough is enough" and it is time for Americans to rally behind the Democrats.

My first thought was "I've heard that tune many times before."  I then sent the following letter to the Democratic National Committee informing the party that I could no longer support an organization so rudderless and lacking in the kind of concentrated spine necessary to saves lives and the country's reputation under the savage onslaught of the neocon war machine and its insatiable appetite for power and wealth.

Here is that letter:    

Take me off of your mailing list and stop sending me invitations to contribute money.  I agree that "enough is enough" and that is the conclusion I have reached as well, but as applied to your party as well as the dictatorial incumbent neocon regime that runs the flag up the flagpole and has a semi-literate buffoon step up before the mikes to lecture us about Americanism.

The response from your party leadership is to imitate Neville Chamberlain at Munich, as Keith Olbermann so eloquently put it.  The American people have spoken loud and clear on the illegal war for which, with any kind of opposition leadership, the impeachment process would already be well under way against Constitution trashers Cheney and Bush.  

Instead we were forced to endure the spectacle of Pelosi shaking the hand of an unelected leader who sent Americans to Iraq to fight for oil, to risk their lives for Halliburton and Bechtel, namely George W. Bush.  

Latterly we see Harry Reid bemoaning the fact that Bush was not as easy to compromise as he had surmised.  What planet is Reid living on if he truly believes that an unprincipled demagogue such as Bush has ever heard of the word compromise?

The current so-called Democratic Party is a pathetic imitation of what it once stood for when its leaders were not afraid to confront elements of international aggression and domestic oppression.  Instead we now hear, "Well, we'll be back in September."  

Meanwhile troops tragically die as they are thrust into a conflict that is illegal under international law, and hence unconstitutional, but then again it was Nancy Pelosi who told us after the last election, after voters had demanded change, that impeachment was "off the table."  

The current Democratic Party leadership has obviously denied the voice of the American people, better than 70 percent of which have declared their opposition to this tragic war predicated on a tissue of lies.  Now the time has come to flush them out.  Too many lives are being needlessly lost in a shameful quagmire concerning which there is no end in sight, no matter how many "surges" are launched.

Yes, "enough is enough" and I am no longer a member of your party.  Accordingly, please take me off of your mailing list in which you erroneously refer to me as a "fellow Democrat."

Your party leadership's current policy of capitulation and accommodation with the most unlawful presidential regime in this nation's history is reprehensible and I cannot be a party to it.