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against the war.
If he's starting to make this kind of noise, he must be feeling it. I wonder what his calls and emails are like. I know I've called his office to lean on this.
THIS is why we should NEVER hesitate to call someone in the enemy compound. We should NEVER get discouraged and think it's no use if we have a republi-CON Senator or Congressperson. We should NEVER hesitate to let them know how large the movement AGAINST them is growing, how it's beginning to mushroom. Yep, that smoking gun is turning into a mushroom cloud alright, mitch. They need to be forced to see how seriously and extensively the ice is cracking under their feet. I suspect, from reading this, that he's noticing that, and is starting to sweat. The momentum to end the war and bring us home is ONLY growing.
Shit - when you have joe scarborough going on TV loudly and for a whole segment including numerous promos during his show talking about how the Dems finally showed some spine yesterday when they upped the ante to stop the war, you KNOW mitch mcconnell is feeling it. scarborough even went so far as to note, during that show, that it's what the voters decreed last November. He noticed. And if he noticed it, and he's saying it, YOU BETTER BELIEVE others on the Dark Side are doing likewise. YOU BET THEY'RE NOTICING, and more painfully aware by the day that they're on the losing end of this. It's already cost them their majorities in BOTH houses of Congress, and I'm sure some of them (ESPECIALLY disgruntled would-be Senate leader mcconnell - who'd be the kingpin around there if it weren't for last November's elections) are still smarting from that. I'll bet there's a shitload of them suffering MANY sleepless nights these days. Lots of tossing and turning, I suspect. And LOTS of serious thinking going on even as we speak - about how to save face. Because they bet ALL THEIR CHIPS on this, and on bush, AND EVERYBODY KNOWS IT. And they're losing. BADLY. Moreso day-by-day. AND EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, TOO. THAT'S the "slow bleed", THERE. What you see from him now, I'll bet, is his first attempts at tiptoeing out toward some sort of face-saving exit. He's flailing around now, trying to reframe it - experimenting with ways to reword and rephrase and redefine it. Trying to see if it'll fly.
You've gotta know, if he's making these noises, that he's getting inundated with calls and emails and everything else from everywhere (including his own constituency) to END the war and get us the hell OUT. And you've gotta know, too, that he's hearing no end of it from his fellow republi-CONS in the Senate AND in the House about how all of THEM are getting hit from all sides about it, too. They're starting to stagger under the weight of it. They'll be trying to save face for awhile, hoping if they can hold out long enough, the tide will turn and the fairies will all come out and magically turn things around in Iraq and Walmarts will spring up all over there in just a teeny little while, and all will be safe for the next surge - of the oil baron-pirates and their drilling rigs. Well, IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. The American people are NOT going to wake up in a week and a half and suddenly, magically, reverse themselves and this overwhelming trend, and all join hands and dance around and start loving this war. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. And I think more than a few of these people, deep down, know that's the case and that they're fighting one hellva losing battle.
AND, compounding their growing discomfort, I'll betcha, is that they hate to be wrong. They hate having to admit they were wrong. They hate having to reverse course because they totally fucked this one up. They hate having to admit they hitched their wagons to an anvil (especially after all their swagger and bullying and lying for all these years). NOBODY likes a loser. NOBODY wants to be attached to a loser. NOBODY wants to admit they were fooled by a loser, that they've been had on the end of a fork by a loser. NOBODY wants to admit they've been used, and played for chumps - especially when they went to the mat for bush/cheney. And they're painfully realizing now that THIS IS EXACTLY THEIR FATE. They've built and made this bed and insisted it be moved into the bedroom. Now they realize it's actually nothing more than a steaming dungheap and they don't want to have to lie down on it. And they're gonna have to, ANYWAY.
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