Why do Dem leaders in Congress STILL refuse to fight back?

[Ken Burch]

Can't we all agree that the "say nothing and try to win by default" strategy simply doesn't work(as 2002 and 2004 proved)?
Is it not finally time for our Senate and House leaders to stand up and fight the Bushies as equals and as PROGRESSIVES?
Why don't they get it yet?

[Upfront]

1. Most are bought and paid for.

Same as the rethugs. Just my guess.

[Kierkegaard]

2. That would have been my answer. Collusion by bribery.

Something has got to be done to reinstate our democracy. Not sure what, but at the rate it's disappearing, we are on the brink of fascism...

[Ken Burch]

8. Maybe we should just ask all of them not to run for reelection

Then, we could bring in new candidates and leaders who aren't living at Bushco's mercy.
After all, no one would be giving up any real power by surrendering the minority leadership,
since our minorities in the House and Senate are powerless and irrelevant.

[Kierkegaard]

12. Well said.

Problem comes when you try to convince them that the good of the country should come before their personal gain. I doubt we'll see them returning any large sums of currency in easy to carry bags to the lobbyists and other such seemly organisms. They just seem too comfortable sucking off the government/corporate teat to me.

[Tesha]

4. That'd be mine too. :-(

[Avalux]

3. They may be afraid.

I've been thinking about this a lot - and wondering why just as you are. With the wiretapping disclosure and knowing what Nixon did, it's highly conceivable that Bushco has dirt of a lot of Congress and is blackmailing. Bushco operates like the mob, so even without dirt on someone, the lives of those who would disssent or those of their family may have been threated. I put no tactic past them.

[Tesha]

5. Wasn't that the raison d'etre for the Anthrax? (NT)

[Avalux]

7. Probably.

Scare them a little bit, let them know they'd better keep their mouths shut.

[Mythsaje]

6. Dirt, shmirt...

Unless they're guilty of rape and/or assorted types of mayhem, BFD. What's the White House gonna do, out them as potheads, or cokeheads? (Considering the Congress voted against drug testing themselves on the grounds that it violated their privacy? Talk about a double-standard).

If they've got skeletons in their closets they need to dig them out, dress them up, and march them across the stage.

[pretzel4gore]

9. system corruption

everyone should read gore vidal's "dreaming war: blood for oil and the cheney-bush junta" which was published in '02. Vidal traces much of the problem the US has politically with the handicapping of congress: it cost a fortune to get elected, and the terms are too short. it seems the only ones benefitting from this is the corporate nazipooh pigs. Dem leaders are TRAPPED in effect, and if they try to fight, they will get booted out, and like most pols they have a long line of dependents. bushinc etal are the ONLY beneficiary of every single problem the system delivers to the people in the media, the biz and political community. what a mess. maybe bush will make the problem so grotesque that finally something will be done about it, but the elected leadership are hardly posed to do it

[casual hex]

10. A standing threat

I think they are worried they will be "Wellstoned" if they push too close to the mark. Their posture doesn't suggest carrot to me. It looks more like stick.

[Talismom]

11. Because they're corporatists (fascists!) masquerading as dems! n/t