Wednesday - January 03, 2007

Lunatics On The Loose

Don’t look now but the madness coming from your new Democratic Party masters may be about to get much worse. Why? Their “base”, the Looney Left is about to descend on Washington all prepared to apply pressure on the Donks to go along with their rabid demands. The circus is about to begin, folks. You can sit back and watch the fun if you want. As for me, I’ve got some firearms to go clean ... just in case.

Activists on the Left Applying Pressure to Democratic Leaders
Liberals Seek Bolder Approach to War, Spying
_{(WASHINGTON POST) - Wednesday, January 3, 2007}

Democratic leaders set to take control of Congress tomorrow are facing mounting pressure from liberal activists to chart a more confrontational course on Iraq and the issues of human rights and civil liberties, with some even calling for the impeachment of President Bush.

The carefully calibrated legislative blitz that Democrats have devised for the first 100 hours of power has left some activists worried the passion that swept the party to power in November is already dissipating.

A cluster of protesters will greet the new congressional leaders at the Capitol tomorrow. They will not be disgruntled conservatives wary of Democratic control, but liberals demanding a ban on torture, an end to warrantless domestic spying and a restoration of curbed civil liberties.

The protest will be followed by an evening forum calling for the president’s impeachment, led by the Center for Constitutional Rights, antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and a pro-impeachment group called World Can’t Wait.

Those priorities will not be in evidence inside the Capitol, where the newly sworn-in Democratic Congress will immediately begin work on new ethics rules, the reinstitution of federal deficit controls and new policies designed to increase civility in House proceedings. In the coming weeks, Democrats plan to pass bills designed to raise the minimum wage, lower prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients and interest rates for student borrowers, bolster homeland security and boost alternative energy research.

Nowhere in the Democrats’ consensus-driven agenda is legislation revisiting last year’s establishment of military tribunals and suspending legal rights for suspected terrorists. Nor is there a revision of the civil liberties provisions of the USA Patriot Act, a measure curbing warrantless wiretapping by the National Security Agency or an aggressive confrontation of the president on his Iraq war policies.

To Democratic activists and some lawmakers, the agenda skirts the larger issues that damaged the president’s approval ratings and torpedoed Republican control of Congress.

“We’ve been told for many years, 12 years now, ‘Wait until we get in power. Then you’ll see things change,’ “ said Debra Sweet, national director of World Can’t Wait, a pro-impeachment group helping to organize the protest. “We’ll give them a couple of months or a few weeks to see what they come up with, but if they don’t do something very decisive around the war and these other issues, I think there will be trouble.”

“If the first 100 hours is going to be characterized by an increase in the minimum wage and improved health and education benefits for Americans, that’s fine,” said Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), a liberal firebrand who ran for president in 2004 and has announced for 2008. “But then let’s talk about the second hundred hours, because we cannot let this war be lost. We cannot abandon the troops in the field to temporizing.”

To most Democratic lawmakers, such activism presents a quandary. House Republican leaders spent years trying to placate their conservative base with agendas built around opposition to same-sex marriage, antiabortion votes and tax cuts, said Sen.-elect Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.). The partisan tone enraged Democrats and ultimately alienated moderates and independents, who swept the GOP from power in November after a dozen years in control.

“The Democrats have to be careful not to fall into these traps that I think paralyzed the Republicans,” Cardin said.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 01/03/2007 at 02:17 PM   
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