Dear Democrats: Stop Enabling GOP Bullying
If you give bullies what they want, they feel empowered, and they trample you again, and they go out and find new victims, Every parent knows this.
Yet apparently, the Democratic Party doesn’t understand this reality. Today’s paper had not one but two new instances of Democrats essentially squatting in front of their attackers with a “kick me” sign (on top of the many other times in the last few years, starting at least as far back as the 2002 vote to enable the illegal and unjustified war in Iraq).
First, Barack Obama gave up the very good promise to veto the military appropriation bill that contains draconian, even fascistic, legislation allowing indefinite military detention of US citizens arrested on US soil.
And second, even though the wealthiest Americans pay lower tax rates than they did even under Ronald Reagan, Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have agreed to scuttle the “millionaires tax.”
What will the COP bullies come back with for their next demand? And when will the Democrats find their spine? Already, we are endanger of losing our democracy, and already the disparity between rich and poor makes us seem like some third-world country.
