I have been trying to contact Nancy Polisi an elected member from California . And , there is very little way to contact this most idoitic speaker of the house . Disgraceful ! Do nothing ! Please ask this person to go back home .....may be Texas ...not California . What are they ways can we get this person out of congress ?

Just remember - anytime politicians announce that they’ve made a “deal”, it’s the American public that’s been dealt out. That’s D.C. Poker 101.

I am a lifetime democrat and will always vote democrat. But they have lost my money. I’m looking for morality not politics and the democrats refuse to stop Bushes illegal immoral unethical war. We are losing a hundred soldiers a month. That’s the real slow bleed. Instead of sending the same bill over and over again until Bush signs it,they caved in. Bush doesn’t care about the loss of life. His only concern is about his already failed legacy. The democrats are only looking to win the next round as we all know that American casualties will continue mount. When will someone start showing real concern for the soldiers by getting them out of this unwinnable quamire of hell that Bush put them in?

Republicans in the House and Senate are marching in lock-step to the microphones to repeat their rubbish about keeping a “surrender date” out of the war spending bill.

News organizations are dutifully repeating their lies and opinion writers are sharpening their pens to urge readers to “stay the course” in newspapers around the country.

And what are “progressives” doing? Fragging their leaders and declaring their intention to “cut and run” from the political arena now and forever.

No wonder Reid and Pelosi flinched. Compared to the conservative “message machine”, the anti-war movement is just too flakey to be counted on in a fight.

Before you criticize the Dem leadership. Do something real: Stop paying your federal taxes, Start pressuring your co-workers to oppose the war until your boss tells you to stop. Stand in front of your kid’s school with a large “Bush is a Baby Killer” sign.

Now you’ve got a hint of what life is like for our representatives… Put your livelihood and your reputation on the line for what you believe in - then you can criticize Congress.

A VOCABULARY TEST

Question: What is a synonym for gutless, spineless, fearful, weak-willed cowards?

Answer: Congressional Democrats!

I would call them chickens, but in actuality poultry is far more courageous than most elected Democrats.  Perhaps the Democrats should trade in the jackass and adopt the amoeba as a symbol.

Why the outburst of name calling you ask, particularly when Bush is obviously infinitely worse on all counts?  Well, normally, calling an adult a derogatory name has little effect.  It is, or should be, the old “sticks and stones” response once we are past kindergarten.  But, apparently calling the Congressional Democrats names scares the hell out of them and goads them into action.  Or, in the case of Bush calling them “surrender monkeys” on Iraq, cowers them into inaction.

Perhaps calling the Congressional Democrats names for knuckling under to Bush’s vetoes and not taking the difficult course on getting out of that Middle East fiasco might counterbalance their fear from being falsely labeled as supposedly “not supporting the troops” or the biggest lie of all - “losing Iraq.”

They blow in the wind from blowhards.  Perhaps if the wind blows hard enough the other way, they might finally stand up and stay standing up.

[more irreverence at resistence-is-possible.blogspot.com]

My first gut reaction is to criticize Democratic leadership. But in reality, if the Dems were unified in their opposition to the war and in calls for withdrawal, we’d have the votes and wouldn’t be having this problem. Calling them cowards is the easy way out. Truth is, it’s a little more complicated than that.

Whats this crap !!!!  we dont have the votes to override a veto????  tell bushy that this is the funding bill and if you dont like it have a republican congressman submitt one without them and see if you can get it passed.  And also we see the democraits true colors now we will give the pres want he wants but tie it to a pork filled bill so now the pres get his deal and the demos get theirs.  AND ONCE AGIAN THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE GETS FORGOTTEN.  I thought that maybe things would change but god help me I was wrong agian.

While we have been focused on the Iraq War Supplemental Spending bill, the House passed, on May 17th, a $646 Billion FY 2008 Defense Authorization bill. 

Bernie Ward (KCBS) said last night that the Defense Authorization bill included approximately $100 Billion for the Iraq War.  According to Bernie, the Supplemental Spending bill we are debating would cover the cost of the war up to October, after which the already passed Defense Authorization bill would go into effect.  In other words, the Dems have been working to fully fund the Iraq War.

It should be noted that Bush has threatened to veto the Defense Authorization Bill because it includes a provision requiring the Pentagon to “buy American” and it also gives soldiers a 3.5% pay raise.  (Being a cynic, I suspect that the hoopla about Bush’s threatened veto was just a smoke screen to hide the fact that the bill included full funding for the Iraq war.)

To reiterate, if Bernie is correct and the already passed Defense Authorization bill includes funding for the Iraq War, then House Dems have already sold out the voters.

The Democrats will not get us out of Iraq because the Israelis don’t want us to get out of Iraq. We destroyed Iraq for them, and now we have to contain the mess we made for them. Forever. It’s that simple.

I’m tired of the triangulation games. “Accountability in Iraq” is the new position that the dems claim the people voted for. Show me the poll that says that. The polls I read indicated the people want an “end to the Iraq war” and “accountability in Washington”. See how those cowardly democrats have created this new fantasy position. This crap they’re pulling is not a compromise. It’s defeat, pure and simple. I have voted for a democrat every election my whole life. But an independent Hagel/Bloomberg ticket is looking really, really attractive.

wow. zionists and gay lovers. what a group signs on here. let’s see: what would it mean if the dems didn’t cave? it becomes their war? one of the saddest things that came out of my time in the 60s and 70s was the enduring cynicism and why vote mentality that appears on this page. hey, dems don’t have a majority never mind a veto proof coalition. do you folks have really believe that all of those who go to washington are depraved and lacking in any good faith at all? where is the nuanced thinking in this crowd?

The Democrats are not afraid to displease Big Oil or Bechtel. But they ARE afraid of displeasing Israel.

At a recent AIPAC conference, Nancy Pelosi’s moderately antiwar speech, calling too clearly for a US exit from Iraq, was roundly booed by the assembled pro-Israel lobbyists. Israeli leader Olmert also warned the US Congress not to do anything to restrain Bush from “doing something about” Iran.

Pelosi got the message. Right after this scolding from the Israel lobby, she struck from the troop funding bill a provision requiring Bush to get congressional approval before starting a new war against Iran.

And the Democratic “leadership,” tightly yoked to the Israeli harness, has also carefully made sure that any supposedly “antiwar” legislation that comes to a vote never actually requires an end to the occupation of Iraq - ever.

The dems are doing this not to please the oil lobby or the military/security industry lobby. They are certainly not doing it to please the voters. They are doing this to avoid the wrath of Israel, period.

I emplore every Democratic voter to vote for Dennis Kucinich for president and a third party candidate in Congress.  Kucinich is the only Democrat with a shade of balls and morality, and not to mention, comprehensive plans to change the disasterous course this country is on.  This surrender is shameful, embarrassing, and disgusting. Voting third party will at least send a message to these worms.

In case no one has noticed our political system has devolved into a two party system, which increasingly makes real opposition impossible. Still to preserve our right to be indignant we must vote and if it means holding our noses while we vote Democratic than that is for now all we can do.

Bush/Cheney is the fruit of a long term effort by the Republican party to destroy any vestige of Democracy in this country. To put all the power in the investment and corporate hands, which if that meant the smartist and wisest of Americans, it might not be so bad, but face it Bush is stupid and Cheney is a narcisstic and evil man and their advocates are all greedy control freaks with no respect for other peoples rights and the needs of society.

Once again the Democrats have demonstrated that they are incapable of leadership. This is why a Democrat cannot be elected to the presidency, and why they should be tossed out of the congress. They lied to their constituents to get into office. How can they ever be trusted to serve the people. They have blood on their hands. It’s time to clean house.

How can a Democratic Party which depends on Zionist Jews for 50% of its funding ever be a force for peace in the Mideast?

Democrats of Congress - you WILL pay for this betrayal. We voted you in, and we WILL vote you OUT.

Is anyone really surprized by these developments? Anyone with half a brain would have known well in advance that the Democrats haven’t the substance to produce principled opposition to the war. They are interested solely in securing power for themselves so that beyond 2008 it will be their turn at the trough. That and nothing else. What entertains most at liberal, gay promoting, Christian hating sites like this one, is the party loyalty of the true believer that criticizes fundamentalists for their supposedly “mindless” support for Bush and the Republicans. At least dispensationalist, John Hagee is getting something for his trouble: a Regime which prioritizes Israeli national interests over its own and an open-ended war on Islam. Today we read Amy Goodman about Democratic perfidy on free trade. Wanna bet she votes straight Democrat in the next election? And so too will most of the schmoes here as well. Rather than support a principled independent like Nader, they’ll actually gripe about how he somehow owed the Democrats the votes he received in 2000! Such people make someone like Rush Limbaugh look positively reflective.

John Lowell

wow you know madmen are only able to continue their rampages when good men or in this case mediocre men and women do nothing.

Sellouts. Cowards. Spineless. What kind of leadership is this? The dems expect to win the wwhite house in 2008, yet not a single democrat has aany idea about how to be a leader! It’s looking like the 2006 election was a waste of time….nothing has changed!

Who didn’t see this coming. Unenforceable bench marks, what a farce. Just keep those dollars coming baby! Once again the voter gets to bend over and assume the position.
We’ve got the best government money can buy and they prove it every day in every way. Time to take that well “earned” Memorial Day vacation. 
Congratulations Congress on a job well done! - signed Haliburton et al.

Democrats wonder why they lose elections and then procede to cave on a conflict that 70% of the American people are against and a Pres with a 30% approval rating.
What are they waiting for the Pres to get pancreatitis ala John Ashcroft and sneak into his hospital room in the dead of nite and get him to sign an agreement that has significant bench marks.
Please the parents and wives and children of the people who will die in Iraq until September or until the Democrats get balls do not blame the democrats they are just jockeying to win in 08.Your kids are just pawns.Do not feel bad the same thing happened in Viet Nam.We got the same deal in 75 we could have gotten in in 69 but like the democrats of today supporting the troops means big funerals.Anything to keep ownership of the war in Bush’s hands until 08.Then you will hear the reasons that we cannot pull then either.Either the war is wrong or right.If the democrats believe it is wrong have the balls to stand up for these kids that we have put in this horrible situation.There is something more important than winning elections it is these kids lives and well being.

This show both DEM and REP are control by same master and that is Zionist Jews.
Iraq war or any US war in Middle East is serving the Israeli interest.
The U.S is occupied country by Zionist, Media, House of Representative and Senate is control by Israeli lobby.
None of these representatives or senators would be elected without Israeli lobby blessing.

Obviously, we need an alternative to both the republican and democrat parties. Unless a sane third party alternative appears, what’s the point of voting?

Not only are the democrats offering our madman president another blank check to continue his insane depredations in Iraq, he’s going to expand his ‘covert’ Iran ‘regime change’ program.

Is it the air or the water in D.C. that drives everyone insane? Or the mendacity and struggle for personal gain?

Perhaps we should move the Capitol offshore, or outsource it to Tibet. Replacing the crazy christian fundamentalist evangelicals, and ‘god’-directed AIPAC ‘Israel Uber Alles’ lobbyist-bribers, with Buddhists, would be a good first step toward sanity.

Wow.  After all that talk about a new mandate from the voters with the change of power in Congress, it’s basically come down to this.  More of the same.  More of the same.  Remind me why Democrats call themselves a different name from the Republicans?