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The Lessons Of 2007 |
As the year of 2007 comes to an end I find myself reflecting back on what was supposed to be a year of change. After all, we did have all the necessary ingredients. Democrats won a majority in both houses of Congress on a platform of changing the course of President Bush's disastrous Iraq war policy. Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, and Karl Rove all stepped down from their high-level positions in the Bush administration. Promises were continuously made to restore our civil liberties and to implement the needed "checks and balances" that were missing for so long between the executive and legislative branches of government. It appeared as if we finally begun to head down the right path.
That was all just a charade of a very short lifespan.
Congress, who we the people voted
into office to bring about positive
changes in Washington, have failed us
again.
...Before November of 2008 Congress
needs to show the American people that
they have the courage to stand up to
President Bush and his allies in
Congress -- provided there are any
chances left. Because the base of the
Democratic party has pretty much lost
faith in their party's ability to bring
about the necessary, positive, and
optimistic changes that our country so
desperately desires.
If Democrats in Congress continue to refuse to adapt to modern time, I'm afraid that their base will surely fade away only reemerge as an independent third party perpetuating Republican victory. If that happens most of them can kiss their political futures goodbye.
