On good men doing nothing. (please RECOMMEND)

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  Edmund Burke said "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."

  For most of my life and certainly all of my adult life I have confronted various evils, intentionally or otherwise. Sometimes you go looking for that monster and sometimes it comes looking for you. Regardless, the eventual confrontation is a trial. Winning or losing in a battle against evil is a moot point to judge a man or woman.

  It is whether one flees from the battle or enjoins it that is relevant in my opinion. That is a point to judge on.

  There is also the matter of how thoroughly that evil is confronted. As Americans, we are taught that some evils are so highly-appointed in the infernal hierarchy that they require we lay our lives down to stop them. Again, it is of little importance whether we win or lose that battle, but what pains were taken to stop it.

  To many here, is is high Truth that this battle today required more effort than was given by those we have appointed to defend us. It will be marked down, and it should be, that the battle might not have been winnable. That is ultimately irrelevant. What will also be noted, and of much greater importance, is that this battle should have been fought with the kind of vigor appropriate to the menace of that evil which was confronted.

  Which it was not.

  This was not a legislative kerfuffle over the subsidizing the price of corn or choosing a design for the face of a coin. Nor was it merely, and I use that word correctly, merely how we confront the evils which threaten America.

  This was something greater than that. Today's battle was a question about how we confront evil in ourselves, and how we define our national character.

  And the choice has been made. The President will lower his gallows-pen and the scratches it makes on paper will become a pale reflection of the gallows-blade which hangs heavily over our Liberties' neck.

  The good men and women who represent us in Congress have not done nothing. But they have certainly not done what was necessary when confronting an evil of this magnitude. I did not expect our representatives to lay down their life for us, today. But I sorely wish that I would have known that they would lay down so little when the stakes were so great.

  Freedom is a prologue to that which we will live with from this day forward. But Freedom is not the father or mother of it.

PB

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1. Kick. n/t

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2. Kick. n/t

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3. Wow! You said there is something more important than winning

In my two plus years of following politics closely on this board, I have learned that politics has no morality. But I often wonder,besides the power, do they actually care that what they do causes someone to live or die or be tortured? Could they get a job in business instead of having the power to decide who lives and dies and write it off with a toss of the head to "politics." What kind of person makes that equal to winning? I don't understand. Maybe we are getting much closer to Roman times. This country is nothing that I thought it was.

Anyway, I have said that numerous times to those that scream "the Dems are a miniority, what do you want them to do?" Stand for what being a Democrat means. Be true to yourself and lose. I would be the biggest Democrat supporter on earth if in unity and in heart and in bravery they fought this evil with everything they have and STILL lost.

Instead, they barely even try. And STILL lose.

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4. Indeed, I am reminded of a sentence from Thomas Paine's "The Crisis"...

  "Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated."

  Where is the recognition of the price of these goods, and the desire to bid for them with effort?

PB

[Moochy]

5. Try and fail

Seems like the DU rules should be restated,DONT POST ANY CRITICISM OF ANY DEMOCRAT, GET DEMS ELECTED AT ANY PRICE!!!

Regarding the Filibuster, you are right they should have tried and failed... Counting the votes behind the scenes, and allowing "cover" for the fucking pro-torture fascist weasels sickens me. And as usual the "pragmatic" personalities of DU and their fawning packs of nipple tweaking fans are out in droves telling us how we should feel about it. Fucking cults of personality.