Lousy Democrats, doing what the people want
James Gilmore in the Post:
I reject the Democrats' policy of an immediate withdrawal or a withdrawal on a timetable. Unfortunately, they are playing to the polls to obtain political advantage at home, to the detriment of the United States.
What exactly are the democratically elected representatives of a people supposed to do but respond to the pressures of the majority that placed them in office? Reacting to what the public seems to want is what politicians do, or they quickly cease to be employed as politicians. And it isn't like scheming Democratic politicians invented the idea of a withdrawal from Iraq - that's been a very popular sentiment for years now, and Democrats just finally wised up sooner than their Republican colleagues have. If Glimore's looking for a scapegoat for anti-war sentiment, he'll have to blame all the people who oppose it (or perhaps just the combination of empirical fact and reason) rather than some evil Democrats.
I think this is one of the more frustrating things about politics right now - we're told very often that we should oppose a policy not on its demerits, but because our partisan opposition supports it. Party platforms might be a quick guideline for which way you're likely to come down on an issue, but they shouldn't serve as evidence in reasoned debate of a policy's appropriateness.
posted by onlooker at 2:13 PM
3 Comments:
Actually polls show the people are pretty displeased. Likely because the Democrats are doing enough of what they want, like ending the war. Interestingly George Will recently bitched that the Dem's haven't ended the war yet but one single Republican is working to get that done. Without the help of Republicans how are the Dem's supposed to prevail with only a simple majority?
I mean the Dem's aren't doing enough.
does it ever occur to anyone that it's very hard if not impossible to pass legislation when Bushwig holds the pen to veto? since they don't hold a vast majority, the republicans make it very easy for them to fail in their actions. both parties are responsible for stonewalling either side. this country is a mess and everyone abroad nows it, yet americans are too ignorant that the public is paying the price for governmental policy.
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