What can we say? FEAR is now the DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC of the Democrats who ostensibly "REPRESENT" the millions of voters who voted them into office.
- Democrats DID NOTHING to back the Black Congressional demands for a Congressional investigation into massive Florida voter disenfranchisement in 2000...
- the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate stood - useless and mute on the sidelines - as Karl Rove and the Republican smear machine tarred departing Clinton-Gore White House staffers as "TRASHING the White House" - WITHOUT ONE SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH OF EVIDENCE.
- Tom Daschle and Joe Lieberman SMOTHERED an aggressive investigation into ENRON fraud in 2002, robbing Democratic candidates of their best issue that mid-term election (the opportunity to tie George W. Bush to Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and systematic Enron fraud) - thereby handing the Senate majority back over to the Republicans, despite Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords courageously handing the Senate Majority BACK to an underserving Daschle a few short months before. (Daschle, the Senate Majority Leader from a small state, went down to ignominous defeat, his photo juxtaposed with those of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in Republican smear-campaign TV ads.)
- In 2004, John Kerry REFUSED to make the scandal of the criminal "OUTING" of an entire CIA operation (Brewster-Jennings co.) from WITHIN the Bush White House into a campaign issue, among other egregious Kerry campaign failures that left Democratic voters, donors, and activists feeling as if their candidate had "taken a fall."
- Despite the CIA refering the illegal "Outing" of its CIA covert operations officer and entire operation to the FBI, and despite Independent Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald winning a laborious and thorough conviction against Senior Presidential Advisor Lewis "Scooter" Libby (who was concurrently the Vice President's Chief of Staff), the Democrats REFUSED to follow through on the CRIMINAL PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE convictions, demanding the White House answer to that scandal, and the role that White House Political Advisor Karl Rove played in the criminal scandal.
- When a tide of scandals and corruption circling the White House finally drove American voters to vote, by default, for the (Democratic) opposition, the Bush White House enacted its long-planned PURGE of US Attorneys, in an effort to intimidate minority and Democratic voters with accusations and prosecutions aimed at Democratic vote registration activists. The Democrats response has been tepid, indeed, it is REPUBLICAN senators who are more vocally calling for Attorney General Gonzales resignation...
... AND DEMOCRATS are AFRAID to even MENTION the name of the mastermind of "Purge-gate" - their old nemisis, KARL ROVE.
- and, as well, the Democrats are marked by THEIR FEAR to TIE Vice President Cheney to his HALLIUBURTON STOCK OPTIONS
HALLIBURTON...
CIA-outing scandal, perjury, obstruction of justice...
Jack Abramoff's close ties to the White House...
Katrina disaster incompetence and fraud reconstrucion contracts....
Karl Rove's role in the CIA outing scandal and PURGE-gate US Attorneys scandal...
ON EACH OF THE ABOVE ISSUES, FEAR of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Karl Rove IS THE cowering Democrat's DEFINING characteristic.
The Democratic leadership would rather court their industry and wealthy donors, and take orders from the Washington DC punditocracy "Conventional Wisdom," THAN STAND UP FOR THE RULE OF LAW and the rights of their own, Democratic voters.
