IF it is a story about Nancy Pelosi, it must be MORE NEWS that America DOES NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONING OPPOSITION PARTY, and that we are therefore a ONE-PARTY STATE. (Which, in time of the so-called "Global War On Terror," means were are effectively an imperial DICTATORSHIP.)
The ONE accomplishment that the Pelosi 110th Congress can claim is that Bush and Cheney have NOT YET ATTACKED, INVADED or dropped NUCLEAR BOMBS on IRAN... yet. BUT... with every passing day, PELOSI BECOMES MORE OF A WAR-PARTY neo-con pro-torture, pro-spying, pro-gulag, pro-unilateral attacks-and-bombings WAR PARTY neo-con Apologist and bona-fide WAR PARTY SUPPORTER.
And every day, as the neo-con War Party agenda becomes ever more EMBDEDDED in America's cultural consciousness (due to the pro-war, pro-imperial 'major media narrative' produced by the neo-cons in the media, eg safire/sulzberger/kristol/krauthammer/kurtz/podhoretz/libby/wolfowtiz/perle/feith/
wurmser/judithMiller/davidBrooks/etc etc etc), the Democrats become LESS POPULAR among the "Democratic base," and they thus CEDE POWER and POPULARITY BACK TO THE REPUBLICANS - as TOM DASCHLE DID in 2002, in REFUSING to prompt Joe Lieberman to hold a meaningful ENRON investigation in Lieberman's Govt. Affairs Committee, Senate Majority Leader Daschle effectively ROBBED Democratic voters, activists, and candidates of their BEST ISSUE in 2002, the opportunity to TIE George W. Bush to ENRON CORRUPTION. In REFUSING to have Lieberman pursue and aggressive investigation of Enron, and thus robbing Democratic candidates of THEIR BEST 2002 campaign issue, DASCHLE HELPED "lead" the DEMCORATIC DEFEAT in that election.... including MAJORITY LEADER Daschle, himself, GETTING THE BOOT from his South Dakota constituents! AND GOOD RIDDANCE! WEAK LEADERS are WORSE than NO LEADERS, because WEAK LEADERS LEGITIMIZE REPUBLICAN CORRUPTION.
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Democrats Bow to Bush's Demands in House Spending Bill
Billions Trimmed From New Requests
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 13, 2007; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121201791.html?hpid=topnews
House Democratic leaders yesterday agreed to meet President Bush's bottom-line spending limit on a sprawling, half-trillion-dollar domestic spending bill, dropping their demands for as much as $22 billion in additional spending but vowing to shift funds from the president's priorities to theirs.
The final legislation, still under negotiation, will be shorn of funding for the war in Iraq when it reaches the House floor, possibly on Friday. But Democratic leadership aides concede that the Senate will probably add those funds. A proposal to strip the bill of spending provisions for lawmakers' home districts was shelved after a bipartisan revolt, but Democrats say the number and size of those earmarks will be scaled back.
