Lawrence O'Donnell's not on The McLaughlin Group this morning. So sad. He's my current tv crush, especially since he brings the smack down on Pat Buchanan and Tony Blankley every week.
The rest of the Sunday morning line-up this week is just as crappy. I don't know what James Carville's smoking these days, and I don't know what his wife sold off to pay for all the Botox she cleary had (her facial muscles didn't move once for the entire segement on Meet the Press).
I think Eleanor Holmes Norton had it right on To the Contrary this morning when she said that the radical fundies are stupid if they think that liberals and progressives are going to roll over and give up our values and ideals just becuase GWB won the narrowest victory of any second term president since Wilson. Just becuase a very narrow majority in this country was scared into reelecting W, because they knew him better, doesn't mean that we should give up on the causes of equal rights, care of the poor and the elderly, good education for all, separation of church and state, equal access to healthcare, etc. and abdicate control of this country to the radical fundamentalist movement to create a defacto theocracy which will exclude, marginalize, and I think ultimately deport and imprision the voices of reason and dissent in this country.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Bush and the minuscule voting bloc of radical fundamentalists to which he is now beholden are immoral. The only way to win back this country is to state that loudly and unequivocally. Even if these people were the majority, and they are certainly not, majority backing does not render a position good, moral or wise (c.f. slavery).
2 comments:
Why should the democrates give up? As I understand it more people voted for Kerry then voted Reagan into office. Then again twisting facts seems very "republican". Perhaps one day it can be the first description in a dictionary under the word "republican"? ;)
I don't think that the Democrats should "give up." But I do think that they will capitulate in large part to the Republicans' agenda becuase they fear for their jobs.
Certainly we have ample evidence of the lies and half-truths put forward by the Bush administration. But that evidence seems less important to that portion of the electorate that voted for Bush than the equally false testimony of the Swift Boat Vets.
Ameica as a whole has lost her way, and rejected her very foundational ideals in favor of fear, hatred, and intolerance. I'm not sure any amount of work by the Democrats in Congress can stem the tide.
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